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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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00:33:48

Talking Christmas Evidence 2021

The BMJ Podcast ·

2021/12/22

The BMJ has special criteria for considering Christmas research: first it should make you laugh, and then it should make you think. In this festive episode of the Talk Evidence podcast, our regular panel of Helen Macdonald and Joe Ross are again joined by Juan Franco, editor in chief of BMJ Evidence Based Medicine. They’ll give you a peek into what makes for good Christmas research, and why what may seem silly on the surface has a deeper meaning.

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00:41:36

Who is responsible for patient safety?

The BMJ Podcast ·

2021/12/18

As clinicians, we're all taught that patient safety is everyone's responsibility - but on the ground it can be hard to know how to most effectively report concerns, especially if you're not sure how those concerns will be received. In this episode of Doctor Informed, Clara Munro is joined by Ayisha Ashmore, and they ask "who is actually responsible for patient safety?" To answer that we're joined by 2 guests Bill Kirkup, independent investigator who has worked on the reports into failings in

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00:43:47

Exit interview with Fiona Godlee

The BMJ Podcast ·

2021/12/15

Fiona Godlee is stepping down as Editor-in-Chief of The BMJ after 16 years in the position. She was the first female editor of the journal, and over her tenure has seen a lot of changes - both to the publication she's run, and to the wider world of medicine. To mark her departure, Helen Macdonald sat down with Fiona to ask her a bit about those early days at the journal, on her view of women taking leadership roles in medicine, on her thoughts about some of the big issues facing science, and what

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00:39:15

Covid and conflict In South Asia

The BMJ Podcast ·

2021/12/10

In this second podcast focussing on the covid response in South Asia, we’re focussing on the intersection of conflict and covid in the region. The pandemic has highlighted the underlying weaknesses in many health systems - but could it also be used as a catalyst for change, and be a step towards easing tensions? To discuss this, Kamran Abbasi, executive editor of The BMJ, is joined by Zulfiqar Bhutta, head of the Institute for Global Health and Development, Aga Khan University, and Arun Mitra

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00:49:18

Life Support - Being a compassionate colleague

The BMJ Podcast ·

2021/11/30

In this episode of Doctor Informed, Clara Munro is joined by Ayisha Ashmore - and they're getting to grips with being a compassionate colleague. While the topic might seem warm and fuzzy, there's some good hard science to suggest that compassionate leadership at every level of healthcare can make a huge difference to staff, and improve patient outcomes. Most people innately have the skills need to be compassionate colleagues - but often the pressures of the job can make it the lowest of

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00:35:47

Wellbeing - feeling addicted to your phone?

The BMJ Podcast ·

2021/11/26

In the wellbeing podcast, the dread topic of phone usage has come up again - how social media, and an "always on" culture can affect our wellbeing. But knowing that, and changing our behaviour are two different things - so to give some advice on reducing our reliance on phones, Abi and Cat are joined by Nidhi Gupta, assistant professor of pediatrics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, who's been using techniques from behavioural addiction to help with device usage. For more from Nidhi, visit

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00:31:28

Doctor Informed - The patterns which emerge

The BMJ Podcast ·

2021/11/16

When you hear the reports from a major patient safety issue, it will be shocking to hear how they have played out - but the patterns in behaviour, of people and institutions which have gone disastrously wrong, can be seen throughout healthcare. As this first series of Doctor Informed unfolds, we'll be exploring these patterns, and bring you evidence and expertise on tackling them - Doctor Informed is about going beyond medical knowledge to make you the best doctor you can be. In this first episode

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00:46:07

Talk Evidence - Bones, nutrition, pain relief, and...

The BMJ Podcast ·

2021/11/05

In this month’s Talk evidence, we’re going back to our roots and avoiding covid - so sit back and listen to Helen Macdonald and Joe Ross discuss a new nutrition study to prevent fractures in older adults by eating dairy, and a meta-analysis which helps you choose pain relief medications for management of osteoarthritis. We’ll hear from Steven Woloshin about the virtual Overdiagnosis conference, and why he’s so excited about a new category in the National Library of Medicine. Finally, we have a

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00:14:11

Introducing Doctor Informed

The BMJ Podcast ·

2021/10/24

Doctor Informed is a new podcast for hospital doctors, from The BMJ - created in collaboration with THIS Institute, and sponsored by Medical Protection. Medical expertise is fundamental to the practice of medicine. But other skills and knowledge are important too. Doctor Informed gives the inside story on the evidence about giving the best care and having positive relationships with patients and colleagues. In this trailer, meet two of the hosts of Doctor Informed - Clara Munro, a surgical trainee

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00:42:55

Wellbeing - QI approach to improving your wellbeing

The BMJ Podcast ·

2021/10/24

It's easy to decide to do something like exercise, or a hobby to improve your wellbeing, but actually following through and make that a regular part of your week can be much harder. In this podcast, Pedro Delgado, vice president of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, joins Abi and Cat to explain how he turned some of the QI methodology he's been taught over the years on himself, and improved his wellbeing during the pandemic. www.bmj.com/wellbeing

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00:53:37

Covid in south Asia - India and Nepal

The BMJ Podcast ·

2021/10/17

In this podcast series, Kamran Abbasi, executive editor of The BMJ will convene experts from South Asia to discuss how the pandemic has affected the region, how measures like lock-down and vaccination have been handled, and the impact of the pandemic on the social determinants of health. In this first podcast, we're focussing on India and Nepal, and are joined by; Srinath Reddy, president of the Public Health Foundation of India. Biraj Swain, who works in global development in Asia and East

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00:29:13

Talk Evidence - testing for respiratory tract...

The BMJ Podcast ·

2021/09/29

This week our regular panelists, Helen Macdonald and Joe Ross, are joined by Juan Franco, editor in chief of BMJ Evidence Based Medicine - to take a primary care focussed look at what's been happening in the world of evidence. On this week’s episode. As kids go back to school, winter bugs surge and pressure mounts on health services we look at two trials which aimed to use reduce antibiotic prescribing for respiratory tract infections in nursing homes and primary care Juan brings us an update on

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00:41:36

Wellbeing - tired or fatigued, and why the difference...

The BMJ Podcast ·

2021/09/24

There has been a lot of work on the way in which surgeon's are affected by tiredness - and the whole medical workforce can probably relate to their experience. But there's a difference between tiredness and fatigue, and that difference might be important in understanding what's happening in your own life. Dale Whelehan is a physiotherapist, and PhD candidate at Trinity college Dublin, where he is investigating behavioural psychology and the effect of tiredness and fatigue on surgeons - in this

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00:19:30

The future of Afghan healthcare

The BMJ Podcast ·

2021/09/18

The infrastructure of Afghanistan healthcare is under threat, as international agencies who run clinics withdraw from the country. At the same time, some of the healthcare workforce are leaving the country, while those who remain face the prospect of their wages drying up as the economy of the country collapses. But there remain people dedicated to providing healthcare, and in this podcast we hear from, Wais Mohammad Qarani, president of the Afghanistan Midwifery and Nurses Council, about what

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00:26:54

Healthcare In Afghanistan Now

The BMJ Podcast ·

2021/09/09

The final evacuation planes have left Kabul airport, and Afghanistan’s government have ceded power to the Taliban. Amongst the international community, worries about what that transition of power means for the people of Afghanistan have centred around the rights of women, access to education for the whole population, and the continuing prosperity of the country… However what this means for health is still uncertain. Nadia Akseer is an Afghan scientist and epidemiologist, now working at John's

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00:43:52

Talk Evidence - real world vaccine data, GP records...

The BMJ Podcast ·

2021/09/03

In this month's Talk Evidence, Helen Macdonald and Joe Ross are back with a wry look at the world of Evidence Based Medicine. They give us a round up of real world data emerging to address various uncertainties about vaccinations against covid Helen has an update on NHS Digital’s project to extract GP coding for planning of healthcare and research, and talks to Natalie Banner from Understanding Patient Data, to find out what the public really cares about. Finally, as routine care must go on a

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00:39:10

Junior doctors improving hospital wellbeing

The BMJ Podcast ·

2021/08/27

The Midlands Charter, is a set of principles that hospitals in the midlands region of England have signed up to, to improve the health and wellbeing of trainees working in the area. It was created in a huge collaboration of trainees, NHS England, Health Education England and the GMC. Dan Smith is a junior doctor at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, and one of the authors of that charter. He joins us to explain how they're QI thinking to improve doctors wellbeing, and how other areas can

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00:32:36

Wellbeing - scheduling and burnout

The BMJ Podcast ·

2021/08/13

Rota gaps are a big problem when it comes to loading stress on the medical workforce, and there is big pressure to spread the workforce as evenly as possible across wards and shifts. However the tyranny of the rota - especially when changing rotations or working across multiple sites, means that often doctors personal wishes, or big life events are not taken into account. The dehumanising status of becoming just a number in the system is not helping people have the kind of fulfilling careers that

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00:45:37

Women’s health and gender inequalities - Legislating...

The BMJ Podcast ·

2021/08/05

It's been 25 years since the declaration on the rights of women, was signed in Beijing - and in that time the landscape of health car inequity has changed. To celebrate we created 3 podcasts, in collaboration with The WHO and UN University, as part of the collection on Women’s Health and Gender Inequalities www.bmj.com/gender In these podcasts we'll be hosting conversations between women early in, and some who are more advanced in, their careers - doctors, researchers, legislators and campaigners,

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00:32:42

Wellbeing - surveying the mental health of NHS staff

The BMJ Podcast ·

2021/07/30

In the wellbeing podcast, we have had a lot of personal experience of the pandemic, and schemes to support staff - but always we've wanted to know if there's research which can tell us how universal those experiences have been. In this podcast, Abi and Cat are joined by Danielle Lamb, senior research fellow at University College London, and Sam Gnanapragasam, clinical fellow in psychiatry at South London and the Maudsley NHS Trust. Danielle and Sam are both investigators on NHS Check - a

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