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The BMJ Podcast

The BMJ is an international peer reviewed medical journal and a fully “online first” publication. The BMJ’s vision is to be the world’s most influential and widely read medical journal. Our mission is to lead the debate on health and to engage, inform, and stimulate doctors, researchers, and other health professionals in ways that will improve outcomes for patients. We aim to help doctors to make better decisions.

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00:22:38

Telephone consultations - no cost savings, but...

The BMJ Podcast ·

2017/09/28

If you're a patient in the UK, increasingly, your first interaction with the healthcare system won't be the traditional face to fact chat with your doctor - instead you'll have a telephone consultation. The prevalence of these telephone consultations is increasing, and being promoted by CCGs and private companies who administer them - usually as a cost saving measure. Now new research published on bmj.com looks at these phone consultation - how often they happen, how patients feel about them, and

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00:15:03

Selling off NHS silver?

The BMJ Podcast ·

2017/09/28

Should we welcome plans to sell off NHS land? The government seems likely to back the recommendations of Robert Naylor (national adviser on NHS property and estates) to raise capital by selling off inefficiently used assets, but Kailash Chand (GP) worries that services could be threatened and that public consultation is lacking. Read the Head To Head article: https://www.bmj.com/content/358/bmj.j4290

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00:23:35

Diabetes remission - "treating blood glucose, when...

The BMJ Podcast ·

2017/09/22

In the UK - type 2 diabetes now affects between 5-10% of the population - and accounts for around 10% of our total NHS budget. For the individuals affected, treatments are effective at helping control glucose levels - however, the sequela associated with the disease - vascular problems, and a life expectancy that’s 6 years shorter - are still an issue. However, for some, remission seems to be a possibility. To discuss we're joined by Mike Lean, professor of human nutrition at the university if

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00:13:15

The World Bank - the Global Financing Facility

The BMJ Podcast ·

2017/09/01

The world bank was set up in 1944. In the aftermath of the second world war, the institution was there to give loans to countries rebuilding after the conflict. Their first loan went to France - but with stipulations about repayment that set a tone for future funds. A new series, authored by Devi Sridhar, and her team from the University of Edinburgh, and published on bmj.com, looks at where the World Bank has come. The series is , and the articles will cover; Why the World Bank matters to

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00:19:24

The World Bank - trust funds

The BMJ Podcast ·

2017/09/01

The world bank was set up in 1944. In the aftermath of the second world war, the institution was there to give loans to countries rebuilding after the conflict. Their first loan went to France - but with stipulations about repayment that set a tone for future funds. A new series, authored by Devi Sridhar, and her team from the University of Edinburgh, and published on bmj.com, looks at where the World Bank has come. The series is , and the articles will cover; Why the World Bank matters to

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00:16:59

The World Bank - why it matters for global health

The BMJ Podcast ·

2017/09/01

The world bank was set up in 1944. In the aftermath of the second world war, the institution was there to give loans to countries rebuilding after the conflict. Their first loan went to France - but with stipulations about repayment that set a tone for future funds. A new series, authored by Devi Sridhar, and her team from the University of Edinburgh, and published on bmj.com, looks at where the World Bank has come. The series is , and the articles will cover; Why the World Bank matters to

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00:14:50

Preventing Overdiagnosis 2017 - Citizen juries

The BMJ Podcast ·

2017/08/19

This week we’re at the over diagnosis conference in Quebec Canada, Preventing overdiangosis is a forum to discuss the harms associated with using uncertain methods to look for disease in apparently healthy people - and is part of the BMJ’s too much medicine campaign. One of the ways in which the public’s attitudes and wishes around health is measured are citizen or community juries - set up in a similar way to a criminal jury - with an information gathering, and a deliberation phase - recently

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00:23:42

Preventing Overdiagnosis 2017 - Stacy Carter on the...

The BMJ Podcast ·

2017/08/17

In this interview from Preventing Overdiagnosis 2017 (preventingoverdiagnosis.net) Stacy Carter, associate professor at Sydney Health Ethics - and the author of a recently written BMJ essay the ethical aspects of overdiagnosis, joins us to talk about how the cultural context of medicine seeps into our decision making processes and affects how people conceptualise the risks of too much medicine. Read Stacy's full essay: http://www.bmj.com/content/358/bmj.j3872

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00:19:38

Mike Richards has "never been politically interfered...

The BMJ Podcast ·

2017/07/28

Mike Richards is well known in the UK - former Cancer Tzar, he now heads up the Care Quality Commission - regulator of all health and social care services, and therefore the body responsible for inspecting hospitals and GP practices. In this interview, BMJ’s head of news and views, Rebecca Coombes went to the CQC’s headquarters in London, and spoke to Mike Richards - who defends the record of hospital inspection on his watch. This is an edited version of the interview - read the full write

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00:20:01

Dementia prevalance in 2040

The BMJ Podcast ·

2017/07/07

The Alzheimer’s society, in the UK, predicts that if the rates of dementia remain constant there’ll be 1.7 million people in the country living with the condition by 2050. We also know that things like improvements in cardiovascular health are changing those rates. New research published on bmj.com attempts to model what the outcomes of those changing factors might be, and Sara Ahmadi - Abhari, a research associate in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University College

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00:41:49

The Evidence Manifesto - it's time to fix the E in EBM

The BMJ Podcast ·

2017/06/23

"Too many research studies are poorly designed or executed. Too much of the resulting research evidence is withheld or disseminated piecemeal. As the volume of clinical research activity has grown the quality of evidence has often worsened, which has compromised the ability of all health professionals to provide affordable, effective, high value care for patients.” Evidence is in crisis, and Carl Heneghan, director for the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine, and Fiona Godlee, editor in chief of The

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00:27:05

How to build a resillient health system

The BMJ Podcast ·

2017/06/09

The 2014 west African Ebola epidemic shone a harsh light on the health systems of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. While decades of domestic and international investment had contributed to substantial progress on the Millennium Development Goals, national health systems remained weak and were unable to cope with the epidemic. Margaret Kruk associate professor of global health at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, joins us to discuss what makes a health system resilient, and how Liberia

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00:18:08

Future Earth - linking health and environmental research

The BMJ Podcast ·

2017/06/02

The rapid changes in the global environment have led many scientists to conclude that we are living in a new geological epoch—the Anthropocene—in which human activities have become the dominant driving force transforming the Earth’s natural systems. A recent joint publication by the World Health Organization and Convention on Biological Diversity articulated the myriad connections between biodiversity and health and the threats to both posed by environmental change. Andy Haines, professor of

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00:34:02

Government and evidence

The BMJ Podcast ·

2017/06/02

We're creating a manifesto for better evidence. The centre for Evidence Based Medicine at the University of Oxford, and the BMJ, are asking what are the problem with medical evidence, and how can we fix them? In this third discussion we went to Scotland, to find out what the people who create policy think about the issues with evidence synthesis, and how the information they create is being used in practice. evidencelive.org/manifesto/ - join the discussion, read, and comment on our manifesto.

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00:21:18

The magic of shared decision making

The BMJ Podcast ·

2017/05/09

Adoption of shared decision making into routine practice has been remarkably slow, despite 40 years of research and considerable policy support. In 2010, the Health Foundation in the UK commissioned the MAGIC (Making Good Decisions in Collaboration) programme to design, test, and identify the best ways to embed shared decision making into routine primary and secondary care using quality improvement methods. In this podcast, Natalie Joseph-Williams from Cardiff University and Richard Thomson from

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00:19:53

American healthcare - what next?

The BMJ Podcast ·

2017/03/29

For seven years, Republicans have vowed to repeal the Affordable Healthcare Act (Obamacare), and that promise took a central place in President Trump's campaign. The first major vote to replace it was due to happen last week, but was cancelled at the 11th hour. In advance of the potential vote, The BMJ published a debate asking "Should US doctors mourn for Obamacare?". Now we're asking the authors of that debate, what next? Joining Peter Doshi are Adam Gaffney, from Harvard Medical School and

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00:35:20

Education round up - HIV testing, legal highs and...

The BMJ Podcast ·

2017/03/17

The BMJ publishes a lot of educational articles, and in an attempt to help you with your CPD, we have put together this round-up. Our authors and editors will reflect on the key learning points in the articles we discuss, and explain how they may change their practice in light of that new understanding. In this week's round up we're discussing: The offer of an HIV screen for an asymptomatic adult http://www.bmj.com/content/356/bmj.i6656 Two articles on legal highs Novel psychoactive substances:

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00:13:55

The inadequacy of the UK's childhood obesity strategy

The BMJ Podcast ·

2017/03/02

The UK government published its report Childhood Obesity: a Plan for Action, in August 2016. A new analysis article takes them to task for the inadequacy of that response to a growing problem. Neena Modi is a professor of neonatal medicine, at Imperial College London, and president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, and joins us to discuss what that report should have contained. Read the full analysis: http://www.bmj.com/content/356/bmj.j762

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00:13:08

Should all American doctors be using electronic...

The BMJ Podcast ·

2017/01/24

Evidence shows using electronic health records can increase efficiency, and reduce preventable medical errors - but only if they are used properly. However, in the US, the president of the American Medical Association calls them almost unusable. In this debate, Richard Hurley is joined by George Gellert, Regional Medical Informatics Officer at CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Health System and Edward Melnick, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Yale, who debate whether US doctors should be using

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00:13:46

Surrogate outcomes distorting medicine

The BMJ Podcast ·

2017/01/06

Surrogate endpoints are commonly used in clinical trials to get quicker results, however Michael Baum, emeritus professor at University College London, worries that by not focusing on real outcomes - length of life, and quality of life - that these are being used to justify expensive treatments which may not benefit patients. Read the full analysis: http://www.bmj.com/content/355/bmj.i6286

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