Podcasts

Podcast: Vaccines - Q&A (Oct 07, 2009 06:10 PM)

BMJ Learning users put questions to Professor Lyndsey Davies, Dr Jane Zuckerman and Professor Vivienne Nathanson on the UK swine flu vaccination programme. Recorded 1st October 2009. To take part in the next question and answer session, send your question to pandemic.podcast@bmjgroup.com.

Tamiflu - the wrong message? (Sep 04, 2009 11:53 AM)

The widespread use of oseltamivir (Tamiflu) has been a key strategy in tackling the H1N1 "swine flu" pandemic in the UK. However, there have been growing concerns about the communication of this approach and rationale behind the policy itself.

Latest advice for GPs (Aug 10, 2009 05:01 PM)

audio content form recent BMJ Learning module

Communicating with patients during the swine flu pandemic (Aug 10, 2009 04:56 PM)

audio content from recent BMJ learning module

Telephone triage and the flu pandemic (Aug 10, 2009 04:39 PM)

audio content from recent BMJ learning module

Swine flu planning (Jul 21, 2009 03:06 PM)

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’s been done to help the country prepare for a ‘flu outbreak.

Swine flu: Ethical implications (Jul 21, 2009 02:17 PM)

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 the ethical dilemmas that doctors are likely to face as a pandemic worsens.

Swine flu - HPA special (Jul 21, 2009 01:30 PM)

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.

Podcast: Financial incentives and potential pandemic (Jul 21, 2009 11:30 AM)

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 Centre for the Study of Incentives in Health. And Annabel Ferriman takes us though this week’s news.