Teenage pregnancy: The Lancet: May 23, 2016
Kaye Wellings from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine discusses a halving of teenage pregnancy in England since the introduction of a government-led intervention in 1999. (Source: Listen to The Lancet)
Source: Listen to The Lancet - May 24, 2016 Category: General Medicine Authors: The Lancet Source Type: podcasts
Exercise trials
Being physically active can have beneficial effects on our physical and mental health, but the UK population as a whole doesn’t meet the current Government guidelines. Dr Ruth Hunter, Lecturer in Physical Activity and Public Health/NIHR Career Development Fellow, UKCRC Centre of Excellence for Public Health, at Queen’s University Belfast in Northern Ireland describes some of the innovative approaches that her team are testing to encourage people to be more active. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - May 9, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
MACRA – The Basics - Getting Ready for the Post-SGR World
Sybil R. Green, JD, RPh, MHA ACC, LOS, MOS from ASCO discusses how the updated government program called MACRA will affect payments to oncologist in the very near future.
Author: moasc
Added: 05/02/2016 (Source: Oncology Tube)
Source: Oncology Tube - May 2, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: podcasts
Budget decisions can decrease alcohol deaths in less than 18 months
Alcohol consumption has been a perennial problem, but recently The economic downturn and rises in alcohol taxation seem to have stemmed the persistent rise in associated mortality.
Nick Sheron, head of clinical herpetology at Southampton university, and one of the authors of an analysis article, explains how government fiscal policy has the... (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - April 8, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Budget decisions can decrease alcohol deaths in less than 18 months
Alcohol consumption has been a perennial problem, but recently The economic downturn and rises in alcohol taxation seem to have stemmed the persistent rise in associated mortality.
Nick Sheron, head of clinical herpetology at Southampton university, and one of the authors of an analysis article, explains how government fiscal policy has the... (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - April 8, 2016 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Budget decisions can decrease alcohol deaths in less than 18 months
Alcohol consumption has been a perennial problem, but recently The economic downturn and rises in alcohol taxation seem to have stemmed the persistent rise in associated mortality.
Nick Sheron, head of clinical herpetology at Southampton university, and one of the authors of an analysis article, explains how government fiscal policy has the ability to immediately reduce alcohol related deaths. (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - April 8, 2016 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
”It’s the workforce, stupid” - is the NHS workforce in crisis?
As the junior doctors in England strike, concerns for the workforce are foremost in the minds of those running the NHS.
A summary is available here: http://www.bmj.com/content/352/bmj.i1510
In The BMJ roundtable, recorded at the Nuffield Trust Health Policy Summit on Friday 4 March 2016, we asked our participants if they think the NHS is in crisis, and what they think can be done to help those working across the system.
The participants were Clifford Mann, president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, Samantha Barrell, chief executive at Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, Candace Imison, director of poli...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - March 9, 2016 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Frontline NHS charges for migrants will harm the most vulnerable
The Department of Health is proposing to extend charging for migrants into some NHS primary care services and emergency departments.
Although the government asserts that the NHS is “overly generous to those who have only a temporary relationship with the UK,” Lucy Jones, UK lead for Doctors of the World says these proposals will... (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - February 19, 2016 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Frontline NHS charges for migrants will harm the most vulnerable
The Department of Health is proposing to extend charging for migrants into some NHS primary care services and emergency departments.
Although the government asserts that the NHS is “overly generous to those who have only a temporary relationship with the UK,” Lucy Jones, UK lead for Doctors of the World says these proposals will... (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - February 19, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Frontline NHS charges for migrants will harm the most vulnerable
The Department of Health is proposing to extend charging for migrants into some NHS primary care services and emergency departments.
Although the government asserts that the NHS is “overly generous to those who have only a temporary relationship with the UK,” Lucy Jones, UK lead for Doctors of the World says these proposals will disproportionately harm vulnerable undocumented migrants.
Read the full editorial:
http://www.bmj.com/content/352/bmj.i685 (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - February 19, 2016 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Junior doctors second strike - from the picket line
This week, junior doctors in England have taken industrial action for the second time in as many months after failing to reach agreement with the government over their proposed new contract.
Tom Moberley and Abi Rimmer, from BMJ Careers, went to the picket lines at Northwick Park Hospital, and University Hospital Lewisham to talk to the doctors,... (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - February 10, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Junior doctors second strike - from the picket line
This week, junior doctors in England have taken industrial action for the second time in as many months after failing to reach agreement with the government over their proposed new contract.
Tom Moberley and Abi Rimmer, from BMJ Careers, went to the picket lines at Northwick Park Hospital, and University Hospital Lewisham to talk to the doctors, and their supporters.
Keep up to date with the junior doctor's continuing industrial action with our live blog:http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2016/02/08/junior-doctors-strike-february-2016-live-blog/ (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - February 10, 2016 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Junior doctors second strike - from the picket line
This week, junior doctors in England have taken industrial action for the second time in as many months after failing to reach agreement with the government over their proposed new contract.
Tom Moberley and Abi Rimmer, from BMJ Careers, went to the picket lines at Northwick Park Hospital, and University Hospital Lewisham to talk to the doctors,... (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - February 10, 2016 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Junior doctors second strike - from the picket line
This week, junior doctors in England have taken industrial action for the second time in as many months after failing to reach agreement with the government over their proposed new contract.
Tom Moberley and Abi Rimmer, from BMJ Careers, went to the picket lines at Northwick Park Hospital, and University Hospital Lewisham to talk to the doctors, and their supporters.
Keep up to date with the junior doctor's continuing industrial action with our live blog:
http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2016/02/08/junior-doctors-strike-february-2016-live-blog/ (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - February 10, 2016 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
