A clinical protocol for physician assistants in the NHS
Last year, in July 2025, the independent review of the physician associate and anaesthesia associate roles, carried out by professor Gillian...
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The BMJ Podcast
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20 of 1,067 episodesWhy patients choose an assisted death, and vaccine monitoring gaps
The VAERS system in the US monitors adverse events following vaccines, but a new investigation on BMJ.com has found problems with the data m...
Risk, uncertainty, and medical decision-making - Professor Chris Whitty
Something different for the podcast today: a live event. It’s the inaugural BMJ lecture, in partnership with the Academy of Medical Sciences...
Food industry nutrition advisor conflicts, and regulation of healthcare AI
Back in 2024, the BMJ revealed how more than half of the members of the UK government's Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition, had decl...
Now is a golden opportunity to change primary care
The next few months might be an inflection point for GPs in England and Wales Our strong primary care system is often credited in the succes...
When medical exams go wrong, & CTE in the NFL
In this week’s podcast we’ll be hearing a lot about exams - the bane of many doctor’s training lives, exams that determine your future are s...
AI in healthcare - getting it right, and stopping it going wrong
This week we’re focusing on how healthcare is using AI systems. The NHS is firmly set on a course of AI integration, with NHS England commit...
New analysis on Bipolar treatment, and vaccines for malaria
Bipolar disorder affects almost 40 million people worldwide, but finding the right treatment is complex, and nearly half of patients struggl...
We need to understand how global market forces undermine healthcare
This week we focus on the external forces that shape medicine and healthcare. Global health is changing, after the reduction in financing fr...
Are doctors afraid of death?
In this week's podcast - the Sensitivity of Patient Questionnaires: If you've ever asked a patient to fill out a Patient Health Questionnair...
Is Burnham's 'Manchesterism' the fix for health & social care?
Known for his use of devolved powers, during his tenure as Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham now has the opportunity to bring his lo...
Measuring ethnicity in research, NHS job discrimination, and how medicine led evidence revolution
Discrimination in NHS Hiring: We examine the troubling success rates of Black and Asian doctors when applying for NHS jobs. Deputy news edit...
Hands off our data: the need for sovereignty in a connected world
Who actually owns our health data once it is stored in the cloud? And how do we balance the global push for open medical research with the n...
750 recommendations, and little change - why the UK keeps having maternity care reviews.
Two NHS maternity reviews have been published over the past few weeks. The biggest ever conducted, involving nearly 2500 families, investiga...
Children are bypassing the Australian social media ban
Australia has been in the vanguard of legislation to try and reduce the influence of social media on children and young people - their ban f...
The £400 million blackhole for doctor training, drug ads evading regulation, and reining in AI in war
The US military’s Operation “Epic Fury” highlighted the devastating cost of using artificial intelligence for rapid military planning. Thoma...
Cancer screening: when does testing go too far?
The heated debate on prostate cancer screening boils down to one question: should men be routinely screened? Two recent position statements...
Child mortality has reduced, but there are worrying trends
New estimates of Global Patterns in Neonatal, Child, and Adolescent Mortality have been published - and while there has been a huge improvem...
How to make healthcare more human
Does healthcare have a moral emergency? In this episode of the Medicine and Science podcast, Kamran Abbasi sits down with healthcare leaders...
What does Wes Streeting's exit mean for the NHS modernisation bill?
It has been a tumultuous time in UK health politics. UK Health Minister ,Wes Streeting, has freshly resigned. What does this mean for his ne...