The BMJ Podcast

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The BMJ is an international peer reviewed medical journal and a fully “online first” publication. The BMJ’s vision is to be the world’s most influential and widely read medical journal. Our mission is to lead the debate on health and to engage, inform, and stimulate doctors, researchers, and other health professionals in ways that will improve outcomes for patients. We aim to help doctors to make better decisions.

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Talk Evidence - Freedom Day

07.21.2021

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 ...

The BMJ Podcast episodes:

07.21.2021 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 ...
07.15.2021 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 ...
07.08.2021 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 ...
06.28.2021 Women's health and gender inequalities - Campaigning 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 ...
06.20.2021 Talk Evidence - GP data, excess mortality and FDA approval In this Talk Evidence, Helen Macdonald, Joe Ross and Duncan Jarvies discuss what's going on in the world of EBM. Firstly, a while ago on the podcast, we concluded that excess mortality would be the best way to measure the ...
06.04.2021 Wellbeing - are men worse at sounding the alarm about their mental health? We've been bringing you stories of doctors wellbeing for a while in the podcast, but we noticed a pattern. Woman would come on and talk about their own difficulties, men would talk about other peoples - so we wanted to ...
05.28.2021 Coronavirus Second Wave - wrapping up the UK's response Finally it seems that life might return to normal in the UK, as the vaccination efforts continue apace, and despite concern about increasingly spreading variants, our hospitals are not being overwhelmed. Because of this, we are changing our approach to ...
05.21.2021 Wellbeing - Questions to ask yourself, if you think medicine may no longer be for you The pandemic has wrought a lot of change, not least to doctors relationship to their careers. While still loving the patient interaction, we're increasingly hearing that doctors are disillusioned with the other aspects of medicine. If you're feeling that way, ...
05.14.2021 Talk Evidence covid-19 update - Research on vaccine safety, treatment for dementia In this week's Talk Evidence, Joe Ross, BMJ editor and professor at Yale again joins Helen Macdonald to talk about emerging evidence on Covid-19. They also welcome to the podcast Juan Franco, family physician in Buenos Aires, and professor at ...
05.07.2021 Roopa Dhatt - Getting woman into leadership positions in healthcare This interview is part of our BMJ interview series, where we talk to the people who are changing medicine. The series thus far has been a bit male dominated - reflecting the leadership in medicine at the moment, if not ...
04.29.2021 Wellbeing - Humanising medicine In medicine, a lot of work has been done to encourage person centred care - but can that maxim be extended to the people working within the healthcare system? Subodh Dave has just been elected as dean of the Royal ...
04.22.2021 Wellbeing - After shielding On this wellbeing podcast, Abi and Cat are joined by Emma Lishman, a clinical psychologist and part of the North Bristol NHS Trust's staff wellbeing team.Emma helps doctors return to training after a break - be that for maternity leave, ...
04.14.2021 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 ...
04.10.2021 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. ...
04.02.2021 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 - ...
03.25.2021 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 ...
03.18.2021 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 ...
03.15.2021 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 ...
03.12.2021 Talk Evidence - Inside the JCVI, and the key to grading evidence In a slightly different talk evidence, Helen Macdonald and Duncan Jarvies are bringing you a couple, of in depth interviews, Firstly, Anthony Harnden, GP, academic and member of the UK's Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation takes us inside their ...
03.08.2021 Stephen Thomas - Behind the scenes in the Pfizer vaccine trial Never has the spotlight been as strong on a clinical trial as that on the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine, the first approved for covid-19. In this interview, Joanne Silberner spoke to its lead principal investigator, Stephen Thomas chief of infectious diseases ...
03.03.2021 Coronavirus second wave - cancelled surgery, increasing waiting lists Many surgeries have been cancelled during the pandemic, with good reason, as early data showed the increase in mortality associated with a coronavirus infection, but now waiting lists grow, and there are questions about how the NHS will pick up ...
02.26.2021 Wellbeing - speaking out about mental health in the NHS Ashling Lillis is a now consultant in acute medicine at Whittington Health NHS Trust, but she was almost a consultant in intensive care medicine - but a mental health crisis just 6 months before she qualified made her reassess her ...
02.19.2021 The BMJ Interview - Jeremy Farrar; sharing the vaccine is enlightened self interest Jeremy Farrar, is director of the Wellcome Trust, as well as advisor to the government on SAGE. Trained as a medic and with a PhD in neuro-immunology, he was a professor of Tropical Medicine and Global health at the University ...
02.17.2021 Corona virus second wave - Palliative care, and online abuse In this podcast, Fiona Godlee, editor in chief of The BMJ, talks to; Partha Kar, consultant in diabetes and endocrinology in Portsmouth, Helen Salisbury, GP in Oxfordshire, and Nisreen Alwan, public health consultant in Southampton. This week our special guest ...
02.12.2021 Wellbeing special - A post vaccination mindfullness moment The observation period, after receiving a covid-19 vaccination may be the only 15 minutes someone in the NHS might get all day. In this podcast, we're joined again by Chris Bu, psychiatry trainee who has previously spoken to us about ...
02.12.2021 Talk Evidence - re-hospitalistion for covid-19, remote hypertension intervention The evidence geekery continues, and this week Helen Macdonald and Duncan Jarvies are joined by Joe Ross, The BMJ's US research editor, and professor of medicine and public health at Yale. This week we pick up on a preprint in ...
02.09.2021 Neil Greenberg on tackling PTSD in the NHS Neil Greenberg is a psychiatrist, and professor of Defence Mental Health at King's College London. He spent 23 in the military, and now continues to work with them on things like peer led traumatic stress support packages. A recent survey ...
02.08.2021 The BMJ interview - Jeremy Hunt MP Jeremy Hunt probably needs no introduction to our audience - the UK's longest serving health minister, he now chairs Westminster's Health and Social Care Committee - the powerful committee that holds the government to account for its policy choices. In ...
02.04.2021 Coronavirus second wave - The NHS one year on The "public health emergency of international concern" was issued by the WHO a year and a lifetime ago. As the UK ramps up testing for the South African virus variant, and is full steam ahead on vaccination, we look back ...
02.02.2021 The BMJ interview - Tom Frieden, former CDC director on why we thought we were prepared It’s been just over a year since the WHO declared the pandemic a “Public Health Emergency of International Concern” - if you cast your mind back to then, the news was full of reassurances about how prepared the UK and ...
01.27.2021 Coronavirus second wave - 100,000 deaths Recorded on the 26th January 2021 The UK has become, officially, the worst performing country in terms of Covid-19 deaths, per head of population - and the number of people in hospital is still higher than at any point in ...
01.20.2021 Coronavirus second wave - The view from the front line In the UK, over 37,000 people are in hospital with covid-19, and the NHS comes closer than ever to being overwhelmed - though 4 million people have received their first dose of the vaccine, we are warned that things will ...
01.19.2021 The BMJ interview: Fixing America’s covid response in the Biden era US president elect Joe Biden wasted no time in appointing a special advisory board of experts to guide America out of its coronavirus crisis. One of those experts is Celine Gounder, an infectious diseases epidemiologist who has worked on Ebola, ...
01.16.2021 Talk Evidence - Lateral flow tests update, not the best public health approach In this episode of Talk Evidence, Jon Deeks, professor of biostatistics at the University of Birmingham, returns to the pod with an update on lateral flow tests - and why the government plan for using them in asymptomatic screening for ...
01.14.2021 The BMJ Interview - Andrew Pollard on the Oxford/Astra Zeneca vaccine Andrew Pollard is Director of the Oxford Vaccines Group - who, along with Astra Zeneca, have developed an modified adenovirus vaccine for SARS-CoV-2. In this interview we talk to him about the development of that vaccine - what he thinks ...
01.12.2021 Wellbeing - where to turn for emotional support during the pandemic The Samaritans have traditionally been there for people in a crisis, those who are on the verge of ending their life by suicide - but during this pandemic, with the personal toll of caring for covid-19 patients, they are also ...
01.08.2021 Food aid - helping providers support the health of their users The growth in the need for food aid, in the UK, has been staggering. That's why The BMJ has chosen the Independent Food Aid Network (IFAN) as its annual charity appeal. Nutritional guidelines which work for everyone is difficult, even ...
01.06.2021 Coronavirus second wave - The UK's fourth lockdown Recorded Tuesday 5th Jan 2021 As the UK enters lockdown, again, schools are closed, the NHS struggles under the surge of cases, new variants of SARS-COV-2 virus stalk the world, and vaccination programmes make a faltering start. In this podcast, ...
01.05.2021 Listening is the first part of research The BMJ has long campaigned for better patient and public participation in research, making the case that it leads to better outcomes for patients and for society - but an article published in the Christmas edition of The BMJ goes ...
01.03.2021 A (non-systematic) evidence review of 2020 As 2021 hoves into view, we look back at a year of extraordinary evidence. Helen Macdonald is joined by Joe Ross, one of The BMJ's research editors, as well as a researcher at Yale. They discuss the way in which ...
01.01.2021 The Deep Breath talking wellbeing evidence round-up of the year. In this end-of-year podcast from Deep Breath In, we're bringing you a light hearted look back at 2020, and trying to remember some of the non-covid-19 medicine that has crossed our desks. This festive quiz features the deep breath in ...
12.28.2020 Talking Christmas evidence - how Christmas research is chosen If you've had time to digest this year's Christmas edition of The BMJ, you might have wondered how those papers get into The BMJ. Well in this Talk Evidence podcast, Helen Macdonald, UK research editor at The BMJ talks to ...
12.24.2020 Wellbeing - Human factors, and Christmas Logistics How do human behaviours affect patient outcomes? And what has that got to do with Christmas? Graham Shaw, director of Critical Factors, and Peter Brennan, a maxillofacial surgeon in Portsmouth, join us to explain what human factors are, why they’re ...
12.23.2020 Food insecurity in the 6th largest economy Every year, the BMJ has a charity appeal - we’ve regularly focused on organisations like MSF, or Lifebox - providing support to areas of the world which don’t have good healthcare provision… This year though, covid-19 has changed everything - ...
12.22.2020 The soundscape of a hospital Until hear death in 2019, Annabel and her husband James Weaver, spent a lot of time together in hospitals - in patient and outpatient wards, waiting in makeshift waiting rooms in corridors and atriums. And while you or I might ...
12.18.2020 Rob Poynton wants you to pause Robert Poynton is an associate fellow of the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford, and author of books designed to help people work in ways which help both their career and wellbeing. In this wellbeing podcast, we focus ...
12.16.2020 Coronavirus second wave - Should we cancel Christmas? As London and some neighbouring counties move up to tier 3, and Germany, Italy and The Netherlands impose tighter restrictions over over the coming days of Christmas, in this podcast we ask - should Christmas gatherings be cancelled? In this ...
12.14.2020 Inside a vaccine trial The last few weeks we’ve been feverish in our coverage of vaccines - the evidence base for them is, how they’ve been evaluated and licensed, and who’s going to get them first. But what we’ve not covered much is what ...
12.11.2020 Talk evidence covid-19 update - poor public messaging, and vaccine approval data The vaccines are being rolled out - but approval is still on an emergency basis, and the evidence underpinning those decisions is only just becoming available for scrutiny. In this podcast we talk to Baruch Fischhoff, professor at Carnegie Mellon ...
12.08.2020 Coronavirus second wave - the vaccine's here, but the pandemic isn't over As the first people outside of a trial have started receiving Pfizer's sars-cov-2 vaccine, including Matt, but that's not the end of the story for the pandemic, there are still logistics of rollout, plus treating those who have already contracted ...

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What's The BMJ Podcast about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

The BMJ Podcast episodes:

Talk Evidence - Freedom Day

Women’s health and gender inequalities - The science of women's health

Wellbeing - the need for culturally aware support

Women's health and gender inequalities - Campaigning for change

Talk Evidence - GP data, excess mortality and FDA approval

Wellbeing - are men worse at sounding the alarm about their mental health?

Coronavirus Second Wave - wrapping up the UK's response

Wellbeing - Questions to ask yourself, if you think medicine may no longer be for you

Talk Evidence covid-19 update - Research on vaccine safety, treatment for dementia

Roopa Dhatt - Getting woman into leadership positions in healthcare

Wellbeing - Humanising medicine

Wellbeing - After shielding

Coronavirus second wave - headaches abound

Measure the broader impacts of healthcare

Talk Evidence - children and covid, varients of concern, ivormectin update

Coronavirus second wave - vaccination roll out changes, uncertainty about long covid

Wellbeing - Put yourself first

What should "following the science" mean for government policy?

Talk Evidence - Inside the JCVI, and the key to grading evidence

Stephen Thomas - Behind the scenes in the Pfizer vaccine trial

Coronavirus second wave - cancelled surgery, increasing waiting lists

Wellbeing - speaking out about mental health in the NHS

The BMJ Interview - Jeremy Farrar; sharing the vaccine is enlightened self interest

Corona virus second wave - Palliative care, and online abuse

Wellbeing special - A post vaccination mindfullness moment

Talk Evidence - re-hospitalistion for covid-19, remote hypertension intervention

Neil Greenberg on tackling PTSD in the NHS

The BMJ interview - Jeremy Hunt MP

Coronavirus second wave - The NHS one year on

The BMJ interview - Tom Frieden, former CDC director on why we thought we were prepared

Coronavirus second wave - 100,000 deaths

Coronavirus second wave - The view from the front line

The BMJ interview: Fixing America’s covid response in the Biden era

Talk Evidence - Lateral flow tests update, not the best public health approach

The BMJ Interview - Andrew Pollard on the Oxford/Astra Zeneca vaccine

Wellbeing - where to turn for emotional support during the pandemic

Food aid - helping providers support the health of their users

Coronavirus second wave - The UK's fourth lockdown

Listening is the first part of research

A (non-systematic) evidence review of 2020

The Deep Breath talking wellbeing evidence round-up of the year.

Talking Christmas evidence - how Christmas research is chosen

Wellbeing - Human factors, and Christmas Logistics

Food insecurity in the 6th largest economy

The soundscape of a hospital

Rob Poynton wants you to pause

Coronavirus second wave - Should we cancel Christmas?

Inside a vaccine trial

Talk evidence covid-19 update - poor public messaging, and vaccine approval data

Coronavirus second wave - the vaccine's here, but the pandemic isn't over

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