Tea With Tobi
Nov 22, 2019
Should Your Care Business Have Price On Its Website?
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Are your care home or home care staff spending too much time following up on leads that aren't able to afford your fees? Are you wondering if you should include price on your website to combat this? On this week's #TeaWithTobi we give you some tried and tested strategies to prevent this problem.
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May 24, 2021
Professor Martin Green, Chief Executive of Care England
PROFESSOR MARTIN GREEN
Episode Description:
On this episode of the podcast, Tobi sits down with the chief executive of CareEngland, Professor Martin Green. Professor Green highlights for Tobi how the focus on protecting the NHS impacted care throughout the pandemic, Tobi asks Professor Green about his difficult personal experience contracting Covid-19, and Martin pinpoints what the sector needs to do in the next ten years.
Top Quotes:
“The staff are the absolute heroes of this pandemic.” - Professor Green
“People who work in care are reticent to acknowledge their contributions. It’s incumbent on us to do so for them.” - Professor Green
“Care is a profession not a job” - Professor Green
About the Host:
Tobi Ali-Usman graduated from the University of Hertfordshire with a BA Honours degree in Business & Digital Media, and then later worked his way to head up the Health Care Division at a global advertising company in the UK, growing his passion for online marketing in the healthcare space. In 2016, Tobi became the Founder of specialist care sector focused online marketing agency, Smooth Digital, where he currently holds the position of Marketing Strategy Director. In 2020, Tobi launched his own Podcast, Tea with Tobi, aimed at care home and home care professionals who want to have their questions answered, listen to growth-focused conversations and get solutions to the obstacles within the care sector.
Special thanks to our sponsor MeetMyBrian
MeetMyBrian.com is an exclusive web-based application assisting care homes in arranging, managing and controlling both in-person and virtual visits during this Covid-19 pandemic.It provides a healthy communication system to the resident’s families and care homes, helping them in save hours of emailing and phoning. MeetMyBrian ensures the safety and comfort of staff, families and residents by avoiding large gatherings, providing them with more visiting hours and freedom.
Resources:
https://www.meetmybrian.com/
https://smooth.digital/
http://www.careengland.org.uk/
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May 10, 2021
Professor Ian Philp, CEO of Age Care Technologies & Advisor to WHO
PROFESSOR IAN PHILP
Episode Description:
On this week’s episode, Tobi is joined by CEO of Age Care Technologies Professor Ian Philp. Along with being a CEO, Ian is a professor in the care of older people and is an advisor to the WHO. In the episode, Ian explains the true needs of older people and why they are so frequently missed, Professor Philp highlights the greatest error the UK government made in the coronavirus response, and Tobi asks what reform the care industry needs in the next ten years.
Top Quotes:
“Really in retrospect, no one should have gone into a care home without a test.” - Professor Ian Philp
“There were so many heroes from that time and we lost them.” - Professor Ian Philp
“Loneliness, pain, and feeling like you’re a burden for many older people is worse than death.” - Professor Ian Philp
“You brought people from hospital into care homes some of whom had the virus without knowing and it spread.” - Professor Ian Philp
“The biggest thing we’ve got to learn is patience. This will pass but we are not there yet.” - Professor Ian Philp
About the Host:
Tobi Ali-Usman graduated from the University of Hertfordshire with a BA Honours degree in Business & Digital Media, and then later worked his way to head up the Health Care Division at a global advertising company in the UK, growing his passion for online marketing in the healthcare space. In 2016, Tobi became the Founder of specialist care sector focused online marketing agency, Smooth Digital, where he currently holds the position of Marketing Strategy Director. In 2020, Tobi launched his own Podcast, Tea with Tobi, aimed at care home and home care professionals who want to have their questions answered, listen to growth-focused conversations and get solutions to the obstacles within the care sector
Special thanks to our sponsor MeetMyBrian
MeetMyBrian.com is an exclusive web-based application assisting care homes in arranging, managing and controlling both in-person and virtual visits during this Covid-19 pandemic.It provides a healthy communication system to the resident’s families and care homes, helping them in save hours of emailing and phoning. MeetMyBrian ensures the safety and comfort of staff, families and residents by avoiding large gatherings, providing them with more visiting hours and freedom.
Resources:
https://www.meetmybrian.com/
https://smooth.digital/
https://agecaretechnologies.org/
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Apr 26, 2021
Vic Rayner, Chief Executive Officer of the National Care Forum
VIC RAYNER
Episode Description:
On this week’s episode, Tobi is joined by executive director of the National Care Forum, Vic Rayner. The NCF is a membership organisation for not-for-profit organisations in the care and support sector and, in this episode, Vic tells Tobi about the first time she heard the words Covid-19, they discuss how important technology was in aiding the pandemic response, and Vic explains what the care sector needs to learn from the past year.
Top Quotes:
“Staff had to be everything for those they cared for.” - Vic Rayner
“The biggest challenge was the overwhelming sense that people didn’t really know what this was. They didn’t know how to stop it.” - Vic Rayner
“Care is about people’s lives. What you can do to improve and change people’s lives.” - Vic Rayner
“Care is passion and excitement and fulfilment.” - Vic Rayner
About the Host:
Tobi Ali-Usman graduated from the University of Hertfordshire with a BA Honours degree in Business & Digital Media, and then later worked his way to head up the Health Care Division at a global advertising company in the UK, growing his passion for online marketing in the healthcare space. In 2016, Tobi became the Founder of specialist care sector focused online marketing agency, Smooth Digital, where he currently holds the position of Marketing Strategy Director. In 2020, Tobi launched his own Podcast, Tea with Tobi, aimed at care home and home care professionals who want to have their questions answered, listen to growth-focused conversations and get solutions to the obstacles within the care sector.
Special thanks to our sponsor MeetMyBrian
MeetMyBrian.com is an exclusive web-based application assisting care homes in arranging, managing and controlling both in-person and virtual visits during this Covid-19 pandemic.It provides a healthy communication system to the resident’s families and care homes, helping them in save hours of emailing and phoning. MeetMyBrian ensures the safety and comfort of staff, families and residents by avoiding large gatherings, providing them with more visiting hours and freedom.
Resources:
https://www.meetmybrian.com/
https://smooth.digital/
https://www.nationalcareforum.org.uk/ncf_team/vic-rayner/
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