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Resetting General Practice with Martin Marshall, Jenny Doust and Toyin Ajayi
In this week’s episode, our focus is on what the post-COVID world of general practice might look like. The pandemic has exposed the inequalities in our social and healthcare systems, but has also given GPs some much-needed headspace to reflect on changes to make going forward. Will we be able to turn general practice off and on again, like a faulty computer? Will we just drift back to the status quo, or will we seize this opportunity to shake up the old routines in order to redefine the role of the GP and to benefit the ever-evolving needs of our patients? Our guests: Martin Marshall is Chair of the Royal College of Ge...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - June 17, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts

15 Iona Heath
This week a very different kind of conversation on the Recommended Dose – one that considers the art of medicine more than the science. Iona Heath is a long-time family doctor who has worked in a London GP clinic for over 30 years, and at one time became President of the Royal College of General Practitioners. With an international profile, gained in part through her much-loved writing in the BMJ, Iona is unlike many of our previous guests. For a start, she loves words more than numbers, and literature more than clinical guidelines. Host Ray Moynihan caught up with Iona at a recent conference in Helsinki – where she'd ...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - September 18, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: The Recommended Dose with Ray Moynihan Source Type: podcasts

Nuffield Summit 2017 - Reducing Demand
As the NHS strains under pressure from rising patient activity, an ageing population, and financial constraints, The BMJ hosted a discussion on how clinicians should be helping to manage demand at last week’s Nuffield Trust health policy summit. Taking part are: - Eileen Burns, president of the British Geriatrics Society - Andrew Fernando, GP and medical director of North Hampshire Urgent Care - Candace Imison, director of policy at the Nuffield Trust - Martin Marshall, vice chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners - Amanda Philpott, chief officer of two clinical commissioning groups - Maxine Power, d...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - March 16, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group 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

Elective ventilation and the future of medical professionalism
Is elective ventilation an acceptable way to increase organs available for transplant? Duncan Jarvies discusses the ethics with Dominic Wilkinson (associate professor of neonatal medicine and bioethics, and consultant neonatologist, at the University of Adelaide). And Harriet Vickers talks to Iona Heath (president of the Royal College of General Practitioners) and David Haslam (president of the British Medical Association) about how the NHS reforms fundamentally threaten medical professionalism. (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - August 27, 2013 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts

The future of primary care
The BMJ held a round table in January 2013 to discuss the future of primary care in England and Wales. The wide ranging topics included out of hours care, commissioning, education, time management, and integration. This is the full version, lasting one hour and 20 minutes. Edited highlights are available in this week's podcast. Chair: Domhnall MacAuley, primary care editor, BMJ. Participants: Helen Thomas, former GP partner, and current GP Strategic Health Authority lead for the south west of England Clare Gerada, chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners. Nav Chana, postgraduate dean of GP and community based ...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - August 7, 2013 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts