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BMJ Group Lecture: Reforming the NHS - what should we expect of the Darzi Review?

19 Jun, 08 | by Birte Twisselmann

Chris Ham, professor of health policy and management at Birmingham University, gave the first BMJ lecture. He looked at what doctors could expect from the final report of Lord Darzi’s review of the NHS, and warned that the NHS might have to attract more private money if it was ever to become a world class service.
18 June 2008

Reforming the NHS: what should we expect from the Darzi Review? [17:41m]:

Interview with Tom Frieden

18 Jun, 08 | by Birte Twisselmann

Health chief Tom Frieden speaks to Karen McColl about his tobacco control programme in New York.

Interview with Tom Frieden [7:45m]:

Interview with Olivier de Schutter

13 Jun, 08 | by Birte Twisselmann

Can we feed the world?

Olivier De Schutter, the UN’s new special rapporteur on the right to food, speaks to Karen McColl about the current food crisis and what should be done about it.

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Deborah Cohen interviews James P Bagian

22 May, 08 | by Birte Twisselmann

BMJ features editor Deborah Cohen talks to conference guest James P Bagian, VHA Chief Patient Safety Officer, Director VA National Center for Patient Safety, former NASA astronaut, at the “Risky Business” conference on patient safety on 16 May at London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital.

Interview with James P Bagian [7:50m]:

Deborah Cohen interviews Dr Allan Goldman

22 May, 08 | by Birte Twisselmann

BMJ features editor Deborah Cohen visits the “Risky Business” international patient safty conference and talks to Dr Allan Goldman, to the lead for cardiac intensive care at London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children.

Interview with Dr Allan Goldman [6:06m]:

The BMJ Interview: Ara Darzi

16 May, 08 | by BMJ Group

BMJ editor-in-chief Fiona Godlee interviews health minister Lord Ara Darzi about polyclinics and his review of the NHS.

The BMJ Interview: Ara Darzi [17:18m]:

The BMJ Debate: Doctors and immigration

28 Feb, 08 | by BMJ Group

Deborah Cohen talks to Edwin Borman, Graham Winyard, and Ramesh Mehta

On February 29 the UK government is introducing an Australian-style points based immigration system for highly skilled workers. The BMJ’s Deborah Cohen has put your questions about these changes to Edwin Borman, former chair of the BMA’s International Committee, Graham Winyard, former postgraduate dean and former deputy chief medical officer, and Ramesh Mehta, president of BAPIO (the British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin). Topics covered in the debate include:

  • What the immigration policy changes mean
  • Balancing needs of UK and international graduates
  • Representing international graduates
  • Department of Health appeal in the House of Lords
  • Movement of doctors
  • Plight of students

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The BMJ Debate: Doctors and immigration [28:51m]:

The BMJ Debate: BMA and Remedy UK

31 Jan, 08 | by BMJ Group

Deborah Cohen interviews Ram Moorthy and Matt Jameson Evans

Do you want to know what’s in store for junior doctors’ training? Or are you wondering why MTAS seemed to go horribly wrong? BMJ features editor Deborah Cohen put your questions to Ram Moorthy, the chairman of the BMA Junior Doctors Committee and Matt Jameson Evans, cofounder of and spokesman for Remedy UK. Topics covered in the interview include:

  • MMC and MTAS: what went wrong?
  • Who should run NHS Medical Education England?
  • Is there a need for the sub-consultant grade?
  • Are the European Working Time Directive and non-medically qualified practitioners ruining medical training?
  • How do you achieve effective representation?
  • Is political alignment necessary?
  • Are the BMA and Remedy working together?

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The BMJ Debate: BMA and Remedy UK [38:23m]:

The BMJ Interview: Sir John Tooke

13 Dec, 07 | by BMJ Group

Tony Delamothe interviews Sir John Tooke about his report concerning junior doctors’ training

Professor Sir John Tooke is dean of the Peninsula Medical School. He led the successful bid for the creation of the Peninsula Dental School, awarded in 2006 and is the inaugural executive dean of the new, integrated Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry. He graduated from Oxford in 1974, and his clinical and research interests in diabetes and vascular medicine continue.

In April 2007, Professor Tooke was asked by the government to investigate the failed implementation of the government’s Modernising Medical Careers programme.

Tony Delamothe is deputy editor of the BMJ and editor in chief of bmj.com.

Read recent BMJ articles on the Tooke report:

What do you think: Should the Tooke report on postgraduate medical education and training be implemented in full? Take part in our reader’s poll.

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The BMJ Interview: Sir John Tooke [22:12m]:

The BMJ Interview: Lord Ara Darzi

19 Oct, 07 | by BMJ Group

Fiona Godlee puts BMJ readers’ questions to health minister Lord Darzi

Professor Sir Ara Darzi is parliamentary under-secretary of state at the Department of Health. He is leading a review of the NHS that will advise on how to meet the challenges of delivering health care over the next decade.

Lord Darzi holds the Paul Hamlyn Chair of Surgery at Imperial College London and is an honorary consultant at St Mary’s Hospital and The Royal Marsden.

Fiona Godlee is the editor of the BMJ.

Read recent BMJ articles on Lord Darzi’s proposals:

The BMJ Interview: Lord Ara Darzi [17:18m]:

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