"Doctors aren't listening, and it is making us unwell".

In her book, 'Unheard: The Medical Practice of Silencing', Dr Rageshri Dhairyawan takes us on a journey to show how not listening to patients has been ingrained in medicine since its inception.

Join our Chief Executive Rachel Power, in a fireside chat with Dr Rageshri Dhairyawan, as they discuss the importance of engaged listening and its place in the future of healthcare. 

About Dr Rageshri Dhairyawan

Dr Rageshri Dhairyawan is a Consultant in Sexual Health and HIV Medicine at Barts Health NHS Trust and Deputy Director of the SHARE Collaborative for Health Equity, Queen Mary University of London. She has held numerous national charity and policy positions and regularly works with patient organisations. Currently, she chairs the British HIV Association's Equity, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Action Group, the steering group of 4M mentor Mothers CIC and is a medical board member of NAZ and steering group member of the British Association of Sexual Health and HIV Racially Minoritised Communities Group. She is an inaugural Wellcome Collection x Spread the Word awardee 2022 where she was supported to write her debut non-fiction book Unheard: The Medical Practice of Silencing, published by Trapeze in 2024.