Gill Phillips is the creator of the award-winning Whose Shoes?®: a multi-perspective approach to transforming health and social care services through listening and valuing everyone’s contribution. She LOVES working with the Fab NHS Stuff team: https://fabnhsstuff.net/fab-collections/matexp
Gill is known for gently but firmly pushing the boundaries, challenging stereotypes, stigma and silo thinking. She is a champion of genuine co-production, always focusing on people and how to create the conditions for everyone to speak out and create solutions that work.
Gill’s workshops are lively, inclusive and relaxed – encouraging ‘experts by experience’, and healthcare professionals (and anyone else who is interested!) to discuss the real issues as equals, regardless of roles or organisations.
Named as an HSJ 100 ‘Wild Card’, Gill makes powerful use of social media, tweeting as @WhoseShoes. She hosts the popular ‘Wild Card – Whose Shoes’ podcast series, chatting to people who are making a difference in health care, particularly those who are ‘less known’ but whose voices deserve to be amplified to influence positive change.
Key ‘Whose Shoes’ topics include #MatExp (maternity experience), #CYPMeFirst (communications between children and young people, their parents and healthcare professionals), living well with dementia - and now working on Family Integrated Care (neonatal) and exploring health inequalities.
Gill is listed in both the HSJ ‘Top 50 Inspirational Women’ and HSJ ‘Top 50 Innovators’.