Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchPatient spotlight - How can we get better at providing patient centred care?
Participants in our discussion on person centred care in January agreed that a change in culture and better use of technology could benefit both pati…
11 years, 6 months ago
Patient spotlight - Doing it for themselves
In our accompanying roundtable discussion,we hear views from a group of patients and clinicians based largely in the UK on the actions required to …
11 years, 6 months ago
International donations to the Ebola virus outbreak: too little, too late?
Karen Grépin, assistant professor of global health policy at New York University, has been examining the pledges made by the international community …
11 years, 7 months ago
Helping Eddie Redmayne play Stephen Hawking
Katie Sidle is a consultant neurologist at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, in London. She helped actor Eddie Redmayne in his po…
11 years, 7 months ago
Management of cancer induced bone pain
Bone pain is the most common type of pain from cancer and is present in around one third of patients with bone metastases, currently, improvements in…
11 years, 7 months ago
Cash for referrals
Private hospital chains have been “buying” referrals by offering clinicians lucrative packages, including free facilities in sought after locations. …
11 years, 7 months ago
Managing multimorbidity in primary care
Multimorbidity presents a number of different challenges, for the patients living with the conditions, but also for the health professionals caring f…
11 years, 7 months ago
WHO needs exercise?
Philipe de Souto Barreto argues that, to reduce premature mortality, policies should focus on getting fully inactive people to do a little physical a…
11 years, 7 months ago
Dominique Thompson GP - Young people’s health is overlooked
Dominique Thompson, GP and director of the Students’ Health Service at the University of Bristol, is concerned that young people's health is being ne…
11 years, 7 months ago
Rabies in animals
Rabies is the archytypical zoonotic disease, and only by vaccination in animals will we prevent infections in people. In two podcasts linked to our l…
11 years, 7 months ago