Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchEurope’s impending syrup tsunami
Europe's common agricultural policy (CAP) on sugar is due to change, and Emilie Aguirre, from the UKCRC Centre for Diet and Activity Research at the …
10 years, 10 months ago
Mark Britnell - You have to value your workforce
“The people of the UK are right to treasure their NHS,” writes Mark Britnell in his new book In Search of the Perfect Health System (Palgrave Macmill…
10 years, 10 months ago
The junior doctor protest
Thousands of NHS staff have demonstrated against the government’s threatened “imposition” of an “unsafe and unfair” contract for junior doctors. At a…
10 years, 10 months ago
Are new diabetes drugs approved too easily?
Given the number of effective treatments for type II diabetes, which have good evidence about safety and efficacy, should any new drugs for the condi…
10 years, 10 months ago
Is place of death important to patients?
The current orthodoxy is that home is the best and preferred place of death for most people, but in this podcast, Kristian Pollock a sociologist from…
10 years, 10 months ago
Why do the Scottish do fewer knee arthroscopies?
The “correct” rates of discretional interventions are difficult to define. However, David Hamilton and Colin Howie point out that discrepancies in us…
10 years, 11 months ago
Cardiac rehab
With improved survival and and ageing population, the number of people living with coronary heart disease in the UK has increased to an estimated 2.3…
10 years, 11 months ago
What it’s like to receive cardiac rehabilitation
With improved survival and and ageing population, the number of people living with coronary heart disease in the UK has increased to an estimated 2.3…
10 years, 11 months ago
How scientific are US dietary guidelines?
They have a big impact on the diet of American citizens, and those of most Western nations, so why does the expert advice underpinning US government …
10 years, 11 months ago
Dengue fever
Around two fifths of the world’s population (those in tropical and subtropical countries), or up to 2.5 billion people, are at risk of dengue infecti…
10 years, 11 months ago