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The British Thoracic Society (BTS) on chronic cough in adults
The British Thoracic Society (BTS) recently release its clinical statement on chronic cough in adults, which includes a number of clinical practice points of interests to health professionals working in both primary and secondary care.
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Barriers to AI
Dr Dan Smith speaks with Mr. John Isherwood, a consultant surgeon and representative of the Clinical Senate in the Midlands. They discuss the role of Clinical Senates, which are independent NHS bodies providing strategic advice to stakeholders on healthcare matters.
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Green surgery
Mr. John Isherwood reviews barriers to achieving a net zero NHS, focusing on sustainability in surgery. His team analysed regional green plans and found varying adherence to NHS sustainability goals.
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Behind the paper - Moving beyond the AI sales pitch
This video dives into the Future Healthcare Journal’s paper "Moving Beyond the AI Sales Pitch. The discussion focuses on how clinical AI should support and not replace clinicians. Focusing on safety, trust, and practical issues around AI implementation in healthcare.
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Dr Kathryn Mannix: Author of "With the end in mind’
Book club is hosted by first-year doctor, Dr Josephine Price, and the guest is Dr Kathryn Mannix, retired palliative care doctor and author of ‘With the end in mind’.
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Fred Vivian: Increasing the use of data to guide decision-making
Looking at transforming outpatient services is increasing the use of data to guide decision-making.
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AI: The good, the bad and the beautifiable
In this video, a collection of perspectives and insights to accompany the FHJ edition are explored. Focusing on artificial intelligence in healthcare, by examining the patient's perspective on AI in health.
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Call for concern – Martha’s Rule
Dr. Wakana Teranaka is a medical professional who served as a chief registrar at Homerton Hospital in 2023-2024. In this role, she was involved in leading the implementation of the "Call for Concern" project, inspired by Martha's Rule.
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CMCA - Readers Panel
The video discusses the Cheshire and Merseyside Cancer Alliance’s initiative to create a patient representative readers panel. The panel ensures that written information is accessible and understandable for the diverse population they serve.
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Death certification reforms: What you need to know
Join Dr Suzy Lishman CBE, a histopathologist and medical examiner who has been working on death certification reform for over a decade, to learn about the recent death certificate reforms. Including the role of the medical examiner, changes to the medical certificate of cause of death, cremation forms and the role of the registrar and coroner.
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An update on our work
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Amrita D'Souza: Medical Communication Charts
The medical communication chart project began during a ward round in 2020 amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result of the increasing number of patients being admitted who did not speak English the team set out to design an aid to address this gap in communication on daily medical ward rounds which was easy to use, patient friendly and quality assured.
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Hugh Rayner: Writing to patients
Hugh Rayner explains why he started writing his outpatient letters directly to patients back in 2005 and how it improved his relationships with patients.
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Talking about uncertain recovery communication guide
Following the success of the 'Guide to compassionate phone communication' developed during the COVID pandemic, palliative care consultants Dr Louise Robinson and Dr Antonia Field-Smith in collaboration with RCP have developed this infographic to support doctors in having honest conversations with patients and those important to them.
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Dr Lucy Pollock: The book about getting older
Dr Josephina Price discusses A book about getting older with author Dr Lucy Pollock.
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Andrew Rochford: World Patient Safety Day 2024
Patient safety should be at the heart of all that we do as clinicians and yet the ‘noise’ in the system makes it harder rather than easier, and we remain a long way from having a patient safety culture embedded within the NHS.
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Pharmacogenomics in the NHS: A user's guide
Our experts introduce key concepts in pharmacogenomics and describe the current evidence base.
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Navigating Patient Safety: Innovations in learning from patient safety incidents
This webinar focusses on highlighting patient safety initiatives across the country that promote learning from and/or encourage compassionate engagement with patient safety incidents.
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Sam Mauger: Improving diagnosis for patient safety
We have grown used to a “one item” GP appointment, and yet health is often not that conveniently pigeon-holed with many older adults in particular living with multiple conditions.
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Early promise for project helping mental health service users ‘wait as well as possible’
A pilot project in south Wales is aiming to improve support for people who are waiting for psychological therapies.
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Insight led care: Using routine data for clinical prioritisation
We demonstrated reduction in harm in high risk people and facilitated patient initiated follow up to increase clinical capacity.
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Rhodri Smith: My Clinical Genetics training journey
I have not taken the most typical route into clinical genetics, but I am glad that I did.
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Pooja Dasani: The evolving role of a genetic counsellor in a genomic era
We interpret and explain complex genomic information to patients and their families whilst exploring the impact of a diagnosis within the family.
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Encouraging patients to remain physically active at all stages of their cancer pathway
Isla Veal discusses her team's work on physical activity and exercise with cancer patients.