Wellbeing - scheduling and burnout
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 encourages people to stay within the workforce, and helps guard them from burnout.
So how do we square that circle? Anas Nade...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - August 13, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Women’s health and gender inequalities - Legislating for change
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, all working towards building a future in which women can thrive.
As well as these in depth discussions, you will hear som...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - August 5, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Women ’s health and gender inequalities - Legislating for change
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, all working towards building a future in which women can thrive.
As well as these in depth discussions, you will hear some...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - August 5, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Wellbeing - surveying the mental health of NHS staff
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 representative survey of NHS staf f about their mental wellbeing during covid-19.https://nhscheck.org/ (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - July 30, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Wellbeing - surveying the mental health of NHS staff
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 representative survey of NHS staff about their mental wellbeing during covid-19.
https://nhscheck.org/ (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - July 30, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Talk Evidence - Freedom Day
The 19th of July in the UK saw the relaxation of covid rules that have been in place for 18 months - social distancing requirements in venues, mask wearing in public will no longer be legally mandated.
There are a lot of questions about what this will mean for the pandemic, and in this episode of Talk Evidence Helen MacDonald, Joe Ross and Duncan Jarvies are joined by Iain Buchan, professor of public health in Liverpool, who has been involved in 2 key studies on covid transmission.
Firstly, la teral flow tests - the big questions has been how well do they work in the wild - and how well do they have to work, to be usef...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - July 21, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Talk Evidence - Freedom Day
The 19th of July in the UK saw the relaxation of covid rules that have been in place for 18 months - social distancing requirements in venues, mask wearing in public will no longer be legally mandated.
There are a lot of questions about what this will mean for the pandemic, and in this episode of Talk Evidence Helen MacDonald, Joe Ross and Duncan Jarvies are joined by Iain Buchan, professor of public health in Liverpool, who has been involved in 2 key studies on covid transmission.
Firstly, lateral flow tests - the big questions has been how well do they work in the wild - and how well do they have to work, to be useful...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - July 21, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Women’s health and gender inequalities - The science of women's health
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, all working towards building a future in which women can thrive.
As well as these in depth discussions, you will hear som...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - July 15, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Women ’s health and gender inequalities - The science of women’s health
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, all working towards building a future in which women can thrive.
As well as these in depth discussions, you will hear some...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - July 15, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Wellbeing - the need for culturally aware support
We know the pandemic has disproportionately affected the NHS workers who come from a ethnic minorities, we also know that doctors from an ethnic minority face additional barriers to accessing support - so how well have the various support schemes put in place during the pandemic helped those doctors from ethnic minorities?
Dammie Olubawale, medical student and grants and partnerships manager at Melanin Medics, joins us to talk about a fund they've created specifically to help doctors of black African and Caribbean heritage, to access support tailored to them.
Dammie explains some of the reasons which doctors, parti cula...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - July 8, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
