Frontline stories - working as a GP during covid
As the pandemic plays out - the way in which doctors in the UK practice is changing, hospitals are reconfigured to increase critical care capacity, GPs are working from home and doing their day to day work remotely. Some of the changes have come at the detriment of staff and patient wellbeing but covid-19 has also helped cut through some of the inertia to get welcome changes done. In this podcast, Helen Salisbury, GP in Oxfordshire, and Clare Gerada, GP in south London, join us to talk about the way in which general practice has changed, and how they and their teams are experiencing that. (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - April 27, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts

An acutely disturbed person in the community
It can be difficult to know what to do when a person in severe psychological distress presents to a general practice or community clinic, particularly if they are behaving aggressively, or if they are refusing help. Most patients who are acutely disturbed present no danger to others, however situations can evolve rapidly. Frontline staff need to... (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - March 21, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts

An acutely disturbed person in the community
It can be difficult to know what to do when a person in severe psychological distress presents to a general practice or community clinic, particularly if they are behaving aggressively, or if they are refusing help. Most patients who are acutely disturbed present no danger to others, however situations can evolve rapidly. Frontline staff need to know how to call for help, how to assess and manage physical risk, and how to de-escalate such situations. In this podcast Aileen O’Brien, reader in psychiatry and education at St George’s University of London joins us to give some advice on what to do in that situation - wh...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - March 21, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts

An acutely disturbed person in the community
It can be difficult to know what to do when a person in severe psychological distress presents to a general practice or community clinic, particularly if they are behaving aggressively, or if they are refusing help. Most patients who are acutely disturbed present no danger to others, however situations can evolve rapidly. Frontline staff need to... (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - March 21, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts

An acutely disturbed person in the community
It can be difficult to know what to do when a person in severe psychological distress presents to a general practice or community clinic, particularly if they are behaving aggressively, or if they are refusing help. Most patients who are acutely disturbed present no danger to others, however situations can evolve rapidly. Frontline staff need to know how to call for help, how to assess and manage physical risk, and how to de-escalate such situations. In this podcast Aileen O’Brien, reader in psychiatry and education at St George’s University of London joins us to give some advice on what to do in that situation - why...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - March 21, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts

Preventing Overdiagnosis 2018 - part 2: What opened your eyes to overdiagnosis?
The concept of overdiagnosis is pretty hard to get - especially if you ’ve been educated in a paradigm where medicine has the answers, and it’s only every a positive intervention in someone’s life - the journey to understanding the flip side - that sometimes medicine can harm often takes what Stacey Carter director of Research for Social Change at Wollongong univ ersity described in an preventing overdiagnosis podcast last year as a “moral shock” - https://soundcloud.com/bmjpodcasts/preventing-overdiagnosis-2017-stacy-carter-on-the-culture-of-overmedicalisation This year, we asked some of the leaders in the fiel...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - August 31, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts

Preventing Overdiagnosis 2018 - part 2: What opened your eyes to overdiagnosis?
The concept of overdiagnosis is pretty hard to get - especially if you’ve been educated in a paradigm where medicine has the answers, and it’s only every a positive intervention in someone’s life - the journey to understanding the flip side - that sometimes medicine can harm often takes what Stacey Carter director of Research for Social Change at Wollongong university described in an preventing overdiagnosis podcast last year as a “moral shock” - https://soundcloud.com/bmjpodcasts/preventing-overdiagnosis-2017-stacy-carter-on-the-culture-of-overmedicalisation This year, we asked some of the leaders in the field ...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - August 31, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts

James Munro cares about patients opinions.
Getting feedback from people who use NHS services is essential to assessing their value - and improving their quality. Hospitals and general practices widely post information about patient's satisfaction with their services on their websites, but approach tells us little about how feedback changes things on the ground . In this podcast, James... (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - July 5, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts

James Munro cares about patients opinions.
Getting feedback from people who use NHS services is essential to assessing their value - and improving their quality. Hospitals and general practices widely post information about patient's satisfaction with their services on their websites, but approach tells us little about how feedback changes things on the ground . In this podcast, James Munro, former doctor and academic and current CEO of Care Opinion, explains how their online platform works, how Trusts are using it as a quality improvement tool, and how health systems can capitalise on the learning potential of this large scale data collection. This is part of t...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - July 5, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts

Online Consultations - general practice is primed for a fight
The first digital banking in the UK was launched in 1983, Skype turns 15 this year, but 2017 finally saw panic over the impact that online consultations may have on general practices. In this podcast Martin Marshall, professor of healthcare improvement at University College London joins us to discuss whether video conference actually is a... (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - March 28, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts

Online Consultations - general practice is primed for a fight
The first digital banking in the UK was launched in 1983, Skype turns 15 this year, but 2017 finally saw panic over the impact that online consultations may have on general practices. In this podcast Martin Marshall, professor of healthcare improvement at University College London joins us to discuss whether video conference actually is a disruptor, or whether it’s actually the whole business model of general practice that needs to change. Read the full analysis: https://www.bmj.com/content/360/bmj.k1195 (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - March 28, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts

Antibiotics for acute bronchitis
Acute bronchitis is one of the commonest respiratory tract infections seen by general or family practitioners, with several reviews now available in the Cochrane Library and one of these, of the effects of antibiotics, was updated in June 2017. We asked the lead author, Susan Smith, a GP from Dublin, Ireland, based at the Department of General Practice in the RCSI Medical School, to tell us what they found. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - February 26, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts