176 - Introducing new Chief Medical Director, Dr Magnus Harrison

The Dr Louise Newson Podcast

Dr Louise Newson

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Medicine

4.8 • 798 Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Newson Health has recently appointed a Chief Medical Director to ultimately help more women improve their health. In this episode, Dr Magnus Harrison shares a whistlestop tour through his professional life so far as a Consultant in Emergency Medicine via New Zealand, Australia, and Manchester and his experiences in leadership at Stoke on Trent in the wake of the Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust’s ‘adverse mortality’ investigation. Via Harvard, USA and India, Magnus then oversaw the merger of Burton upon Trent and Derby NHS Trusts before the hardest time of his career to date – the COVID 19 pandemic where 8 staff members from his organisation lost their lives. Magnus discusses with Louise what he hopes to bring to the medical leadership and management of Newson Health and the key values that underpin his mission. Magnus’s aims for his leadership at Newson Health: I will be humble and led by professional curiosity to learn how to help more women I aspire to be a compassionate leader, will listen to understand, empathise and ask how I can help Kindness is essential and should underpin all that we do.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Dr. Louise Newsome and welcome to my podcast. I'm a GP and menopause specialist and I run the Newsome Health Menopause and Wellbeing Centre here in Stratford-Bron-Avon. I'm also the founder of the Menopause charity and the Menopause support app called Balance.
0:29.9	On the podcast, I will be joined each week by an exciting guest to help provide evidence-based
0:36.5	information and advice about both the perimenopause and the
0:40.9	menopause.
0:45.7	So today on the podcast, I'm really thrilled, actually, to introduce to you someone that I've
0:50.8	known for a long time, nearly as long as I've known for my husband,
0:58.3	which is a very long time. So it's someone called Magnus Harrison, who's a medical doctor,
1:06.8	and we first met in New Zealand in 1995, so many years ago. And life always goes in circles,
1:11.8	a massive circle with myself and Magnus, and he's now working with us, which is super, super exciting. So welcome, Magnus, to the podcast today.
1:15.3	Hello, Louise.
1:16.5	So tell us a bit about I know a lot about you, some things that I might not reveal on the
1:20.8	podcast today, but tell me a bit about you, because our medical backgrounds, I mean, we're
1:26.4	both medical doctors, but our medical
1:28.4	backgrounds, even right from the start in 95, were very different, weren't they? They've carried
1:32.1	on being very different. So if you wouldn't mind describing a bit about where you've come from
1:36.9	and what you're doing, and then we can explain the full circle and why you're here today.
1:41.8	I will do. So I'll start a little bit before 95, Louis. So I'm a
1:44.6	Newcastle medical school graduate in 93 and always wanted to do emergency medicine. And I remember
1:51.6	really clearly as a third year medical student, the medical registrar working some sort of magic
1:57.4	on a patient who came in with a low blood glucose. And on the end of a syringe,
2:02.2	this patient just woke up and I thought, how fantastic, get the diagnosis right, get the treatment
2:06.4	right, and you make a difference straight away. So I was one on emergency medicine, more or less
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