The'Darkest Year Ever' for the NIH?
American Psychiatric Association President Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman on how government policies are out of sync with our country ' s medical needs. (Source: Medscape Transplantation Podcast)
Source: Medscape Transplantation Podcast - October 3, 2013 Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: Medscape 210869 Source Type: podcasts
The 'Darkest Year Ever' for the NIH?
American Psychiatric Association President Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman on how government policies are out of sync with our country's medical needs. (Source: Medscape Psychiatry Podcast)
Source: Medscape Psychiatry Podcast - October 3, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Medscape Source Type: podcasts
Diagnosing dementia, treating personality disorder
inda Gask, professor of primary care psychiatry at the University of Manchester, explains why a personality disorder diagnosis is not as hopeless as many patients and doctors fear.
Also Carol Brayne, professor of public health at the University of Cambridge, discusses how to make the most of the UK government ’s push to diagnose dementia, even... (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - September 16, 2013 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
The white paper
The new coalition government ’s white paper on health – encompassing the future of the NHS - was published this week. Chris Ham, chief executive of the health policy think-tank the King’s Fund and professor of health policy and management at the University of Birmingham, and Edward Davies, editor of BMJ Careers, discuss t heir immediate impressions... (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - August 29, 2013 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
The NHS market place
The new coalition government ’s plans for the NHS in England put GPs firmly in the driving seat - how do their secondary care colleagues feel about that?
Jacky Davis, co-chair of the NHS Consultants’ Association and a founder member of the “Keep our NHS Public” campaign, shares her views with Duncan Jarvies. Duncan also talks to Professor Julian... (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - August 29, 2013 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
NHS reforms round table
This week the British government has tabled an amendment to remove maximum pricing from the Health and Social Care Bill. We convened a round table discussion to find out what other elements of the bill need re-examining.
Joining us in the studio at BMA house were:
John Black - president of the Royal College of Surgeons.
Clare Gerada - chair of the... (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - August 28, 2013 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
NHS reforms round table
This week the British government has tabled an amendment to remove maximum pricing from the Health and Social Care Bill. We convened a round table discussion to find out what other elements of the bill need re-examining.
Joining us in the studio at BMA house were:
John Black - president of the Royal College of Surgeons.
Clare Gerada - chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners
Michelle Drage - chief executive of the London Wide LMCs
Nigel Edwards – acting chief executive of the NHS Confederation
Anna Dixon - director of policy at the King’s Fund (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - August 28, 2013 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Healthcare and corruption in Uttar Pradesh
The Indian government has invested £1.2bn to kick start rural healthcare in its most populous northern state, Uttar Pradesh. Much of that money has now disappeared, and the programme is blighted by corruption and murder. Harriet Vickers hears the details. Also this week, the UK's Department for International Development has to make decisions on... (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - August 27, 2013 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Healthcare and corruption in Uttar Pradesh
The Indian government has invested £1.2bn to kick start rural healthcare in its most populous northern state, Uttar Pradesh. Much of that money has now disappeared, and the programme is blighted by corruption and murder. Harriet Vickers hears the details. Also this week, the UK's Department for International Development has to make decisions on sometimes scant evidence. We find out how DFID is trying to improve research into aid programmes. (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - August 27, 2013 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Insanity in the dock
It has been almost exactly a year since Anders Breivik bombed government buildings in Oslo, and then carried out a mass shooting on the island of Ut øya, where he killed 69 people, mostly teenagers. In that time there has been much discussion about his mental state. Vivienne Nathanson and Julian Sheather from the BMA join us to discuss the moral... (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - August 27, 2013 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Insanity in the dock
It has been almost exactly a year since Anders Breivik bombed government buildings in Oslo, and then carried out a mass shooting on the island of Utøya, where he killed 69 people, mostly teenagers. In that time there has been much discussion about his mental state. Vivienne Nathanson and Julian Sheather from the BMA join us to discuss the moral and ethical problems that a diagnosis of insanity bring to the case.
Also this week, seven articles on bmj.com look at the science behind sports product adverts. We hear from Matthew Thompson, from the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine in Oxford, who criticises the quality of the ...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - August 27, 2013 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Mid Staffs inquiry, and digging for data
The Francis report into care standards at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust was published this week. Triggered by deaths at a hospital in England, Robert Francis QC was appointed by the government to look into why the quality of care in some wards was so low, and what can be done to make sure that this doesn ’t happen in other hospitals.
Also... (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - August 7, 2013 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Mid Staffs inquiry, and digging for data
The Francis report into care standards at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust was published this week. Triggered by deaths at a hospital in England, Robert Francis QC was appointed by the government to look into why the quality of care in some wards was so low, and what can be done to make sure that this doesn’t happen in other hospitals.
Also this week, research has unearthed data hidden for 40 years on magnetic tapes. It casts new light on the link between consumption of unsaturated fatty acids and secondary prevention of cardiovascular events. We hear from Christopher Ramsden, a clinical investigator at the US Nati...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - August 7, 2013 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Witty words on data
Andrew Witty is the CEO of GlaxoSmithKline. He ’s been credited with taking on a pharma company with a history of behaving badly in the past – as shown by a record $3bn fine levied by the US government last year. How much is he able or willing to change the culture of an industry, which is under pressure to alter its practices? Rebecca Coomb es... (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - August 7, 2013 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Witty words on data
Andrew Witty is the CEO of GlaxoSmithKline. He’s been credited with taking on a pharma company with a history of behaving badly in the past – as shown by a record $3bn fine levied by the US government last year. How much is he able or willing to change the culture of an industry, which is under pressure to alter its practices? Rebecca Coombes finds out.
Also this week, Michael Dowling, president and CEO of the North Shore-LIJ Health System in New York, has built his organisation up from two hospitals undergoing a difficult merger into a giant integrated system. He explains his no-nonsense approach to making change work...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - August 7, 2013 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
