How can you get involved? Just contact us as we’re developing the WHIS model locally, nationally and internationally. You can play your part so we all benefit.

We’re about to publish our values and POD’s (WHIS Communities inspiring local innovation by sharing knowledge). We have the means and the technology to do this via social media.

(WHIS POD’s – developed by Olive O’Connor)

WHISTalks – we have started to stream live talks from lived experiences. We’ve had myself and Martyn Blacklock our WHIS lead for Health, Wellness and Lifestyle give an update on our recent activities followed by Yvonne Newbold and Malcolm Cooper speak about stress management and caring responsibilities and on the 11th September we had the team from Uniti (An innovative electric car) in Sweden live.

Future WHISTalks will be streamed from London – Hala Jawad & Marvin Munzu #worldpharmacistday 25th September and we have streamed talks planned from global locations we’re currently developing (Uganda, USA, Ireland etc).

Our first summit in Carlisle boosted the local economy. We had 300 people visit the City over 2 days where we had local, national and international speakers attend (Including TedX speakers etc). It was a resounding success with over 23.7 million twitter impressions generated.

(Video – Anna Blume

We’ll be back in Cumbria – March 2017)

WHIS create’s opportunities, WHIS supports our health services, WHIS stimulates innovation and build’s networks so we all win. This was recognised last week at the Carlisle Living Awards where I was nominated for the innovation award. The category was full of inspiration with Carlisle Youth Zone/Armstrong Watson and Tic Toc nominated. Johnathan Myers hosted the awards and when he read out my name I was stunned. The vision has become a reality and to be recognised in Carlisle means so much to me and my family.

WHIS has a big team and big support – I want to thank everyone who has helped us over the last 18 months and your continued support is very much appreciated. Our Chairman Dr Amir Hannan needs a special mention as he has been a rock of support for me and I’m very grateful. I also want to thank Martyn Blacklock, Soni Cox, Ken Herd, Olive O’Connor, Dr Suresh Rao, Mike Nicholls, Beth Nicholls, Eddie Cunningham, Dr Laura Hipple, Farouq Din, Lisa Drake, Dr Amin Farhan, Glenys Marroitt, Deirdre Munro, Sheena Byrom, Dr Ferdinand Waldenberger, Simon Harrison, Kate Wilson, Michelle Masters, Andy Fearon, Hriitu Rana, Dr Ollie Hart, Sandra Booth, Carol Milnes, Ravi Singh, Jack Sim, Leif Edvinsson, James Ehrlich, Manjit K Gill, Andy Lawson, Yvonne Newbold, Jordan Hull, Daniel Ibbotson, Prof John Bonnar, Anna Blume, Christiana Gardikioti, Pamela McGowan, Mark Campbell, Darren Meade, Paul Thorburn, Mike James, Debbie Kavanagh, Dr Diwakar Sukul, Dr Olivier Branford, Harry McCann, the WHIS Global team and many more who have helped and supported me and the WHIS vision.

None of this would be possible without my families support and I have to thank my wife Krista and two daughters along with my extended family for all their support. So grateful as without their support WHIS would not exist.

We now have opportunity to build on WHIS so our local economy wins, our health and wellbeing benefit, our families benefit and the next generation benefit. Now it’s in our hands and let’s bring this forward as #togetherweinspire