So Who Cares Anyway with host Ruth Germaine with her inspirational guest speakers will explore the incredible work and initiatives being undertaken in and with health and social care, as well as voluntary and community-based groups. We’ll discuss why their work matters and what difference they make to the people in their communities. I will also invite individuals with key messages or ideas about what needs to happen to significantly enhance our communities health and well-being.
To improve the health and wellbeing of people and achieve integrated care that focuses upon what matters to people, and what works for them, we all need to share learning, ideas and innovation, broadening our perspective of who cares, what they do and the difference that they make. My hope is that this podcast will provide a space for people to inspire and be inspired.
So, if you have a passion to make a difference to the health and well-being of your communities, join me, tune in and listen.
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SoWhoCaresAnyway E53: Emergence 1: When the Covers Become Too Small
In this short solo reflection, I begin something a little different: a series exploring shame through the story of a small creature. Today we start inside the cocoon, cramped but safe, known and warm, where fears can be pushed back, unseen and unjudged. From there, I reflect on what happens when new knowledge makes us look back at the care we’ve given, and at whether we were doing to people rather than with them. And why, sometimes, staying covered feels so much easier.
Where have you stayed covered because it felt safer?
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8 Oct 2026
SoWhoCaresAnyway E52 #DoWith: A Way of Being
In this short solo reflection, I come back to Do With, and why I now see it less as a method and more as a way of being. I take you back to my Darzi Fellowship in 2019, when clinical staff, receptionists, community teams and people with lived experience filled one room with sticky notes, and something new began to surface. The episode explores what it means to do with, not to, and what collective power can show us when systems and the people within them are stretched. So, in your next conversation, who might you be leaving out?
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Read the #DoWith Charter (V2, July 2026): #DoWith; A Charter
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24 Sept 2026
So Who Cares Anyway E51 Creating Supportive Communities
A wheelchair reaches a flight of stairs with no ramp in sight, and in that instant, more than access is lost. Today I'm talking to Juliana Ameh, a fellow Direct Membership Rotarian Rotary Direct Member, social worker, and the founder and chair of the charity Disability Equals Ability Disability Equals Ability, whose work reaches from local authority offices in the UK to communities across Nigeria.
Juliana and I follow the social model of disability into places I hadn't quite gone before: what a missing ramp does to someone before they've even reached the building, and how the same pattern turns up in workplaces, universities, and mental health support on both sides of the world. We talk about community and connection, about what's been gained and lost as institutions replaced family and neighbourliness, and about why someone might almost not show up to a workshop at all. It's a conversation about systems and the people within them, about presence and care, and about what doing with, not to, could actually mean.
No spoilers on where it lands, but Juliana's closing message stayed with me long after we stopped recording.
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