Coronavirus second wave - headaches abound
Recorded on Tuesday 13th of April, as the shops open in the UK, and England is heading to the beer gardens. The roll out of the vaccination programme has completed its first phase, and second doses have been given to the most vulnerable people - and now the under 50s are starting to get their first doses. In this podcast, Duncan Jarvies, multimedia editor for The BMJ, talks to; Partha Kar, consultant in diabetes and endocrinology in Portsmouth, Matt Morgan, a consultant in a intensive care medicine in Cardiff, and Helen Salisbury, GP in Oxfordshire. The genomicc trial Matt mentions is still recruiting - if you're interes...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - April 14, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts

Measure the broader impacts of healthcare
The synergistic linking of increasing health and wealth is broadly accepted - it's an integral part of the thinking between the Sustainable Development Goals, and the World Bank's call for universal healthcare as a way of boosting a country's economy. But the quantification of that link - the extent to which a particular health intervention, has broader economic impacts, is actually pretty poorly understood. In this podcast, we hear from some economists, who have an idea about how we could - fairly easily - measure those impacts at the same ti me we measure clinical efficacy. Joining us are, Dean Jamison, professor eme...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - April 10, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts

Measure the broader impacts of healthcare
The synergistic linking of increasing health and wealth is broadly accepted - it's an integral part of the thinking between the Sustainable Development Goals, and the World Bank's call for universal healthcare as a way of boosting a country's economy. But the quantification of that link - the extent to which a particular health intervention, has broader economic impacts, is actually pretty poorly understood. In this podcast, we hear from some economists, who have an idea about how we could - fairly easily - measure those impacts at the same time we measure clinical efficacy. Joining us are, Dean Jamison, professor emeri...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - April 10, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts

Talk Evidence - children and covid, varients of concern, ivormectin update
The evidence geekery continues, and this week Helen Macdonald and Duncan Jarvies are joined again by Joe Ross, The BMJ's US research editor, and professor of medicine and public health at Yale. This week we update you on treatment - the WHO's guidelines for covid and ivermectin, and why they're not ready to recommend it's use in treatment, and prophylactic anticoagulation treatment. We hear about two papers from the UK and Switzerland which look at children and covid, and we pick up on varients of concern and long covid. Reading list. Association between living with children and outcomes from covid-19: OpenSAFELY cohort...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - April 2, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts

Talk Evidence - children and covid, varients of concern, ivormectin update
The evidence geekery continues, and this week Helen Macdonald and Duncan Jarvies are joined again by Joe Ross, The BMJ's US research editor, and professor of medicine and public health at Yale. This week we update you on treatment - the WHO's guidelines for covid and ivermectin, and why they're not ready to recommend it's use in treatment, and prophylactic anticoagulation treatment. We hear about two papers from the UK and Switzerland which look at children and covid, and we pick up on varients of concern and long covid. Reading list. Association between living with children and outcomes from covid-19: OpenSAFELY cohor...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - April 2, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts

Coronavirus second wave - vaccination roll out changes, uncertainty about long covid
In the UK, phase 2 of our coronavirus vaccination strategy may be delayed by supply problems, at the same time many GPs, who carried out the majority of the first vaccination phases, are declining to take on the addition burden and are trying to return to normal clinical work.In this podcast, Duncan Jarvies, multimedia editor for The BMJ, talks to the full panel; Partha Kar, consultant in diabetes and endocrinology in Portsmouth, Matt Morgan, a consultant in a intensive care medicine in Cardiff, Helen Salisbury, GP in Oxfordshire, and Nisreen Alwan, public health consultant in Southampton. (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - March 25, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts

Coronavirus second wave - vaccination roll out changes, uncertainty about long covid
In the UK, phase 2 of our coronavirus vaccination strategy may be delayed by supply problems, at the same time many GPs, who carried out the majority of the first vaccination phases, are declining to take on the addition burden and are trying to return to normal clinical work. In this podcast, Duncan Jarvies, multimedia editor for The BMJ, talks to the full panel; Partha Kar, consultant in diabetes and endocrinology in Portsmouth, Matt Morgan, a consultant in a intensive care medicine in Cardiff, Helen Salisbury, GP in Oxfordshire, and Nisreen Alwan, public health consultant in Southampton. (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - March 25, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts

Wellbeing - Put yourself first
In this Wellbeing podcast, sponsored by medical protection, Abi Rimmer and Cat Chatfield talk to Susanna Petche and Reina Popat, GPs and members of First You - an organisation of healthcare workers, promoting wellbeing in the NHS.They discuss why it is that clinicians learn to subjugate their own wellbeing to their patients', and the ways in which working in the healthcare system perpetuate that. They discuss how systemic change can come through individual action, and how peers can band together to support each other. (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - March 18, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts

Wellbeing - Put yourself first
In this Wellbeing podcast, sponsored by medical protection, Abi Rimmer and Cat Chatfield talk to Susanna Petche and Reina Popat, GPs and members of First You - an organisation of healthcare workers, promoting wellbeing in the NHS. They discuss why it is that clinicians learn to subjugate their own wellbeing to their patients', and the ways in which working in the healthcare system perpetuate that. They discuss how systemic change can come through individual action, and how peers can band together to support each other. (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - March 18, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts

What should "following the science" mean for government policy?
This round table, recorded at the nuffield summit 2021, asks what does following the science actually mean - do ministers understand the nuance of the science in the pandemic, and how does uncertainty get interpreted through the lens of ideology and the power of compelling stories. Taking part are: Kamran Abassi, executive editor of The BMJ Partha Kar, consultant in diabetes and endocrinology Deborah Cohen, health correspondent for BBC Newsnight Tom Sasse, associate director at the Institute for Government Christina Pagel, professor of Operational Research at University Coll ege London Matt Morgan, intensive care consult...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - March 15, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts