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Ep. 99 Quit Smoking, start an NGO
Welcome to Nursing Australia Episode 99! Today we speak with Quitline about vaping and smoking and then we meet Kate Holliday, the founder & CEO of the Centre for Community-Driven Research (CCDR).

The latest Nursing Australia News (03:00) Vaping cancer, healthcare affordability, measles alert, and Top-end ambulance crisis.

Segment 1: QUIT IT (05:25) The Quit campaign has been running Australia-wide since the 80s. While smoking rates remain a concern, among Australians under 35, vaping has now overtaken smoking. Now, Quitline is reaching out to nurses to help join the fight against both. Cora Mayer and Stacey Ridley from QUITline say nurses, esp those in GP settings, can make a real difference when it comes to patients kicking the habit for good - even a brief advice conversation is known to be a trigger for prompting a person to make a quit attempt.

Segment 2: Start an NGO (15:45) Kate Holliday is an interesting type - she's a nurse-come-CEO of a large non-profit. As she explains it, if she sees something that’s able to be done better, especially if it helps others, then she can't look the other way... she’s gotta do something about it. This is what led to her starting CCDR and it becoming the successful international NGO it is today. Kate’s idea was to develop more patient-centric research that would see patient experiences included in health policy. The Centre for Community-Driven Research started in 2012 and now has registered offices in Switzerland, the UK, and of course, Australia.

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Hosted & Produced by: Matthew St Ledger & Leith Alexander
Produced by: Leith Alexander & Matthew St Ledger