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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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00:13:53

The more you see, the more you eat

The BMJ Podcast ·

2015/12/03

Larger portions of food increase consumption. Theresa Marteau, director of the Behaviour and Health Research Unit at the University of Cambridge, joins us to discuss how government action to tackle portion size and packaging could help reset our appetites and make us thinner. Read the full analysis: http://www.bmj.com/content/351/bmj.h5863

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00:13:06

Unexpected findings, with uncertain implications, in...

The BMJ Podcast ·

2015/11/13

When healthy volunteers are scanned as part of a research project, unexpected findings, with uncertain implications, can be thrown up. Joanna Wardlaw, professor of applied neuroimaging and honorary consultant neuroradiologist at the University of Edinburgh, joins us to discuss how her group deals with these incidental findings, and what volunteers and patients want to happen when they are found. Read the full analysis: http://www.bmj.com/content/351/bmj.h5190

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00:18:31

Is place of death important to patients?

The BMJ Podcast ·

2015/10/12

The current orthodoxy is that home is the best and preferred place of death for most people, but in this podcast, Kristian Pollock a sociologist from Nottingham University questions these assumptions and calls for greater attention to improving the experience of dying in hospital and elsewhere. Read the full analysis: http://www.bmj.com/content/351/bmj.h4855

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00:17:04

Open Doors For Sex Workers

The BMJ Podcast ·

2015/08/17

Following on from the clinical review "Caring for sex workers", we spoke to the team at Open Doors, a sex worker outreach clinic in east London, run from the Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. Kim Leveret and Anca Doczi join us to give practical advice on reaching out to sex workers, what barriers exist to them accessing care, and how to take a sex worker sexual history. Listen to the author of the clinical review, Michael Rekart, talk about the infectious disease side of sex

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00:23:32

Diagnosis and treatment of hepatic encephalopathy

The BMJ Podcast ·

2015/08/14

Hepatic encephalopathy constitutes a spectrum of neuropsychiatric abnormalities, beginning with subtle psychomotor changes and progressing to confusion with asterixis, somnolence, and then coma, arising in patients with impaired liver function. In this podcast, Tim Cross, a consultant hepatologist from the Royal Liverpool University Hospital, describes how to diagnose and manage the condition. We're also joined by Ralph Crawford, who suffers from hepatic encephalopathy, to talk about the burden of

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00:08:49

GI bleeding, slow to diagnose, slow to treat

The BMJ Podcast ·

2015/07/03

The National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death (NCEPOD) has been examining the treatment of acute GI bleeds in England's NHS. Two of the authors, Martin Sinclair, consultant surgeon, and Simon McPherson, consultant vascular radiologist, join us to talk about their findings. Read the full report: http://www.ncepod.org.uk/gih.htm Read The BMJ news story: http://www.bmj.com/content/351/bmj.h3488

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00:14:44

Time to target older women for cervical cancer...

The BMJ Podcast ·

2015/06/23

Cervical screening programmes in many countries stop at around the age of 65 and much of the focus is often on younger women. However, comparatively little attention has been given to older women despite the fact that they account for about a fifth of cases each year and half of deaths. In this podcast Susan Sherman, a senior lecturer in psychology at Keele University, and Esther Moss, consultant gynaecological oncologist at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, argue that the upper age

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00:13:14

QOF, what is it good for?

The BMJ Podcast ·

2015/06/15

Martin McShane, medical director of long term conditions at NHS England, questions the validity of the Quality and Outcomes Framework and suggests how it should change in the future. Read the related article: http://www.bmj.com/content/350/bmj.h2540

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00:11:42

The BMJ requires data sharing on request for all trials

The BMJ Podcast ·

2015/05/22

The movement to make data from clinical trials widely accessible has achieved enormous success, and it is now time for medical journals to play their part. From 1 July The BMJ will extend its requirements for data sharing to apply to all submitted clinical trials, not just those that test drugs or devices. The BMJ's Elizabeth Loder explains what this means for authors, and how we expect researchers to make their data available. Read the full editorial: http://www.bmj.com/content/350/bmj.h2373

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00:44:55

The health debate - the analysis

The BMJ Podcast ·

2015/04/23

The future of health and social care looks certain to be a defining issue in the forthcoming UK general election. Social care has been subject to deep public spending cuts, raising concerns about the sustainability of services in the future. Whoever wins the next election will need to grapple with providing joined up health and social care services in an era of continued austerity. A recent debate (heathdebate.net) with key spokespeople from across the political spectrum took place this week, and

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00:16:28

Thrombolysis in acute ischaemic stroke - time for a...

The BMJ Podcast ·

2015/03/18

In the US the licence, or marketing authorisation, for alteplase is limited to 0-3 hours after onset of stroke, but some other countries - including the UK and Australia - have extended the licence to 4.5 hours. In an analysis article on thebmj.com Brian Alper, vice president of evidence based medicine research and development at Dynamed, and colleagues, interpret the evidence to suggest increased mortality with uncertain benefit for its use beyond three hours. Read their full

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00:03:23

Katherine Henderson A and E consultant - lack of...

The BMJ Podcast ·

2015/03/11

Katherine Henderson is the clinical lead of the emergency department at St Thomas's hospital in London. She worries that lack of ward space is having a domino effect throughout A and E and is the cause of increased waiting time for both patients and ambulances. If you would like to contribute to this collection, please email a brief audio recording to voices@bmj.com or phone +44 (20) 3058 7427 and tell us what your main concern for the NHS is. Please include your name, job title, and place of

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00:01:32

Obioma Ezekobe GP - patients need to be educated...

The BMJ Podcast ·

2015/03/11

Obioma Ezekobe is a GP in an urgent care centre in Central Middlesex Hospital. She believes that the public need to be educated about the use of NHS resources, and be taught when it is appropriate to seek care. If you would like to contribute to this collection, please email a brief audio recording to voices@bmj.com or phone +44 (20) 3058 7427 and tell us what your main concern for the NHS is. Please include your name, job title, and place of work.

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00:01:04

Patrick Keating GP - under pressure to increase list...

The BMJ Podcast ·

2015/03/11

BMJ Voices is a collection of readers’ experiences of working in the NHS. For this, The BMJ is seeking short audio submissions from UK listeners. These submissions will be published on thebmj.com. Patrick Keating, a GP from Enfield, is concerned that small practices are under pressure to increase list size, but aren't able to muster resources to meet this increased demand. If you would like to contribute to this collection, please email a brief audio recording to voices@bmj.com or phone +44 (20)

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00:13:54

Nuffield summit - Bastiaan Bloem on parkinsons.net

The BMJ Podcast ·

2015/03/05

Bastiaan Bloem, consultant neurologist at Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Netherlands, discussing his revolutionary approach to patient centred care. Read more from the summit: http://www.bmj.com/content/350/bmj.h1172

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00:02:52

Mark Folman GP - time pressure and patient care

The BMJ Podcast ·

2015/02/13

Mark Folman, a GP in Nottinghamshire, is concerned that more and more work, with more and more patients, means less time with those who really need him. BMJ Voices is a collection of readers’ experiences of working in the NHS. For this, The BMJ is seeking short audio submissions from UK listeners. These submissions will be published on thebmj.com. If you would like to contribute to this collection, please email a brief audio recording to voices@bmj.com or phone +44 (20) 3058 7427 and tell us what

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00:52:15

Patient spotlight - Doing it for themselves

The BMJ Podcast ·

2015/02/10

In our accompanying roundtable discussion,we hear views from a group of patients and clinicians based largely in the UK on the actions required to advance progress towards providing patient centred care. To extend the conversation we talked to members of the BMJ's international patient advisory panel and other patient advocates - and what follows are short clips of hour long conversations with people in the US, Europe, India, Equador and Uganda. While the quality of the recordings vary there

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00:14:32

International donations to the Ebola virus outbreak:...

The BMJ Podcast ·

2015/02/04

Karen Grépin, assistant professor of global health policy at New York University, has been examining the pledges made by the international community to help fight the ebola virus outbreak - was it really too little, too late? Read her full analysis: http://www.bmj.com/content/350/bmj.h376

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00:10:28

WHO needs exercise?

The BMJ Podcast ·

2015/01/22

Philipe de Souto Barreto argues that, to reduce premature mortality, policies should focus on getting fully inactive people to do a little physical activity rather than strive for the entire population to meet current physical activity recommendations. Read the full analysis paper: http://www.bmj.com/content/350/bmj.h23

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00:07:22

Men are idiots

The BMJ Podcast ·

2014/12/15

Winners of the Darwin Award must eliminate themselves from the gene pool in such an idiotic manner that their action ensures one less idiot will survive. Ben and Dennis Lendrem, and colleagues, have reviewed the data on winners of the Darwin Award over a 20 year period and they join us to discuss why men are idiots, and why their team is not the only ones to have noticed. www.bmj.com/content/349/bmj.g7094

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