Up, Up and Away - the digital health podcast

On Up, Up and Away we speak to thought-leaders and opinion formers in the world of digital health, be that clinicians, patients, young people or other tech innovators. We find out what things are making a real difference. Our talented team specialise in creating digitally enabled self-management programmes to the NHS for young people. We've spent the past eight years or so developing the Digital Health Passport - an evidence-based mobile app, which improves skills, knowledge and confidence to manage long-term conditions like asthma, epilepsy and sickle cell disease.

Up, Up and Away - the digital health podcast is a health podcast hosted by Dom Burch and Saira Arif, with 22 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Dom Burch and Saira Arif hosts Up, Up and Away - the digital health podcast, a health show with 22 episodes published.

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  Episode #2

  What does digital inclusion really mean in a world rushing towards AI, automation and digital-first services?

  Apr 9, 202627 minS2

  <p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>In this episode of Up, Up and Away, Dom Burch and Saira Arif sit down with Emma Weston, founder of Digital Unite, to explore one of the most important—and often overlooked—questions in digital health and public services:</p><p><b>Who are we leaving behind?</b></p><p>As Digital Unite marks its 30-year anniversary, Emma reflects on why digital exclusion remains such a persistent challenge. The conversation explores how decades of well-intentioned effort have failed to shift the dial—largely because we’ve been trying to solve a systemic problem with sho...

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  Dr Lewis Thomas — Sickle Cell, Burnout, Coaching, and Building The Sickleverse

  Feb 18, 202627 minS2

  <p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>In this episode, host Dom Burch speaks with <b>Dr Lewis Thomas</b>, a former NHS GP and accredited life coach who lives with sickle cell anaemia. Lewis shares how lived experience, medical training, and coaching came together — and why social media may now be one of the most powerful tools for reaching patients the healthcare system struggles to reach.</p><p>🔥 Key Topics Covered</p><p>🩸 1) Living with sickle cell — and the fear that comes with misunderstanding</p><p>Lewis describes his first major sickle cell crisis at age 12 as “the worst pain imagina...

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  Episode #20

  Terri Quigley: Lived experience, severe asthma, and why digital tools can save lives

  Feb 9, 202633 minS1

  <p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>In this episode of <b>Up Up and Away</b>, Dom Burch is joined by <b>Terri Quigley</b> — a Project Manager at <b>NHS Cheshire and Merseyside</b>, an award-winning Participation & Engagement Coordinator, and a passionate advocate for respiratory health and lived-experience-led change.</p><p>Terri brings a uniquely powerful perspective. She works inside the system, helping shape services for children and young people — but she’s also a parent, and she and her teenage son Ethan both live with <b>severe asthma</b>. That combination of professional insight and lived experience makes...

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  Episode #19

  From the Clinic to the System: Asthma & Lung UK's Naomi Watt on Designing for Engagement

  Jan 24, 202628 minS1

  <p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>In this episode of <b>Up, Up & Away</b>, host Dom Burch is joined by <b>Naomi Watt</b>, from <b>Asthma + Lung UK</b>, for a wide-ranging conversation about behaviour, motivation, and what it really takes to design digital health tools that people actually use.</p><p>Naomi reflects on her early career as a respiratory nurse — from reading X-rays on lightboxes to working in A&E, general practice and helplines — and how her passion for learning helped her absorb knowledge almost by osmosis. But she also shares a pivotal realisation: just beca...

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  Episode #18

  Tackling Inequalities in Children’s Asthma — Learning from Brent Health Matters

  Jan 14, 202627 minS1

  <p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>In this episode of Up, Up and Away, Dom Burch speaks with Bethan Almeida, a senior nurse in Brent Health Matters, about childhood asthma, health inequalities, and what effective, community-led healthcare looks like in practice.</p><p>Bethan leads the children’s asthma workstream in one of the UK’s most diverse boroughs, where 149 languages are spoken and many families face barriers around health literacy, income, housing, and access to care. Her role bridges clinical care, public health, and system improvement, with a focus on preventing avoidable asthma harm.</p><p>Bethan explains how...

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