BMJ Group pandemic flu podcasts

This week’s podcast debates the ethics of testing removed breast tissue for cancer following mammoplasty. BMJ editor Fiona Godlee interviews Vivienne Nathanson, head of science and ethics at the BMA, and Duncan Jarvies talks to Mohammed Keshtgar, consulta

This week’s podcast comes from the International Forum for Quality and Safety in Healthcare in Berlin. We have a few highlights from interviews with delegates about the issues they’re hoping to resolve. Deborah Cohen talks to Ryan Truscott in Harare abou

This week Deborah Cohen, the BMJ’s features editor, talks to Professor Chris Ham, a health policy specialist from Birmingham University, about government plans to open up the primary healthcare market. Podcast producer Duncan Jarvies talks to Dr Paul Avey

This week Trish Groves, a deputy editor with the BMJ, talks to Dr Kate Venables, from Oxford University, about her investigation into the long term health of the veterans of Britain’s chemical weapons research facility, Porton Down. Annabel Ferriman bring

In this week’s podcast we hear from Andrew Jack, pharmaceuticals correspondent for the Financial Times, about how the global financial meltdown is affecting spending on health. Birte Twisselmann catches up with Richard Lehman and Anthony Harnden to find o

In this week’s podcast, Duncan Jarvies talks to Therese Hesketh, a child health specialist at UCL, about what China’s one child policy is doing to the population balance. Writer and broadcaster Geoff Watts tells Deborah Cohen about how new technology is c

This week Birte Twisselmann talks to Lucy Selman, a researcher at Kings College London, to find out about the state of palliative care in Uganda and South Africa. Duncan Young, an intensive care consultant, tells Duncan Jarvies how doctors can help raise

This week Helen Morant talks to Richard Coker from the London School of Hygiene and Tom Jefferson from the Cochrane Vaccines Field about pandemic flu. Geoff Watts talks to Theresa Marteau from the Institute of Psychiatry about the Wellcome Trust’s new Cen

Helen Morant asks Anthony Kessel, director of public health strategy at the Health Protection Agency, about the role of the HPA in managing pandemic influenza. This podcast is also available as a BMJ Learning module “Swine influenza: an update “. As the s

This week Tony Delamothe talks to Allyson Pollock, from the University of Edinburgh, about problems researchers have in prising information from the UK Department of Health. Helen Morant finds out from Geoff Watts about how the media are responding to the

Dr Tony Calland, chair of the BMA medical ethics committee and a recently retired GP, and Dr Andrew Hartle, chair of Imperial College Healthcare NHS trust Clinical Ethics Committee and an anaesthetics consultant at St Marys’s hospital in London, discuss t

This week Duncan Jarvies talks to Raluca Ionescu-Ittu, from McGill University, about folic acid fortification. Deborah Cohen finds out from Professor Edzard Ernst about the first homeopathic treatment to be licensed by the UK’s medicines regulatory agency

In this podcast we look at planning for a pandemic (this is particularly applicable for GPs in the UK). Helen Morant talks to Maureen Baker, honorary secretary of the Royal College of General Practitioners, and Kate Adams, a GP in East London, about what’

In the wake of nurse Margaret Haywood being struck off the UK nursing register; Rebecca Coombes talks to lawyers Peter Gooderham from Cardiff University, and Chris Cox from the Royal College of Nursing, about the legal implications of whistleblowing. Davi

Nigel Hawkes tells Helen MacDonald about a conference on the role of junior doctors in patient safety, Duncan Jarvies talks to Jan Jansen about what military medicine can teach the NHS about trauma surgery, and we find how to play safely on trampolines. B