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Mashup Score: 17
Millions of people die each year from tobacco use across the world. This affects all of our communities and healthcare systems, and disproportionately affects poorer nations and people. It is unfathomable that transnational tobacco companies continue to trade and make billions of dollars of profit each year despite the known lethality from use of their tobacco products. The vast majority of countries implement some combination of tobacco control measures that include limiting tobacco industry interference with national tobacco related regulation, applying taxes to tobacco sales, and restricting access, appeal, and advertising of tobacco to young people. There is broad agreement (and lots of supporting literature) on how best to treat tobacco addiction, with a combination of pharmacotherapy and behavioural support, although provision of these services among countries varies widely. Where differences of opinion and …
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Mashup Score: 0To OSCE or not to OSCE? - 12 month(s) ago
OSCEs have a useful part to play in assessing medical students, but medical schools should be aware of their drawbacks, writes Katy White Your mouth feels dry. The audience is waiting. The bell sounds and you have to step up on stage, recite your lines, and follow the stage directions before exiting stage left. At least that’s how performative an objective structured clinical examination (OSCE)…
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In the #OSCEs, "the resources that inform your actions are restricted to just the knowledge you have in your own head, which is an unrealistic, and arguably dangerous, portrayal of how medicine should be practised." #BMJOpinion @BMJStudent https://t.co/zJqV4OaoiP
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Mashup Score: 8Resolving the health and social care crisis requires a focus on care for older people - 1 year(s) ago
Effective healthcare for older people lies at the heart of equitable, effective, and ethical healthcare for all, writes Adam Gordon This January, the UK secretary of state for health and social care announced £250 million for the NHS to purchase additional capacity in English care homes to relieve hospital bed pressures.1 The Scottish Government outlined similar measures.2 This funding is…
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"The government must acknowledge that effective care for older people lies at the heart of an equitable, effective, and ethical health and social care system" Read BGS President @adamgordon1978 #BMJOpinion @bmj_latest https://t.co/yDcOXA343n
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Mashup Score: 0NHS trusts should be openly sharing their data on ethnicity and recruitment - The BMJ - 3 year(s) ago
Data on recruitment success by ethnicity are an important barometer of how inclusive, or discriminatory, NHS trusts are. As such, hospitals should be sharing this information freely and using it […]More…
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"I would even suggest that, where there is evidence of racism, and a trust is considered 'unsatisfactory' in this area, the CQC should have an equality, diversity, and inclusion version of special measures to address this." #BMJOpinion @SheilaCunliffe https://t.co/LahLfqlFSe
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Mashup Score: 8The cut to Universal Credit is set to widen health inequalities when the government has promised to "level up" health - The BMJ - 3 year(s) ago
The recent focus on additional funding for health and social care has failed to overshadow another government policy decision with significant implications for our nation’s health. The £20 a week […]More…
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#BMJOpinion by @davidfinchthf analyses the impact of cutting universal credit and government’s plans to "level-up." “these cuts are concentrated in local authorities in England with lower healthy life expectancy.” https://t.co/m4rEkz5o61 @HealthFdn
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Mashup Score: 12
Clinicians must combine modern treatments with the time honoured skill of attentive listening, argues Meagan Brennan On the hierarchy of evidence pyramid, randomised controlled trials sit close to the top. […]More…
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"It is the anecdote that connects us to our patients, it is understanding the individual for whom we care that brings us joy, and it is connecting with their personal experiences that makes our work so rewarding." #BMJOpinion https://t.co/GZTZsIzRVg
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Mashup Score: 46
Clinicians must combine modern treatments with the time honoured skill of attentive listening, argues Meagan Brennan On the hierarchy of evidence pyramid, randomised controlled trials sit close to the top. […]More…
Source: The BMJCategories: General Medicine Journals and Societies, Latest HeadlinesTweet-
"It is the anecdote that connects us to our patients, it is understanding the individual for whom we care that brings us joy, and it is connecting with their personal experiences that makes our work so rewarding." #BMJOpinion https://t.co/xJNK46fOmj
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Mashup Score: 16Beyond our NHS logo, what kind of service will survive after the pandemic? - The BMJ - 3 year(s) ago
The covid-19 pandemic has challenged and stretched the NHS as never before. What kind of service is likely to emerge, asks David Zigmond The ubiquitous blue NHS logo does its […]More…
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"The government should be learning what many public health experts have been trying to tell them: there is no adequate substitute for local professional knowledge of, then engagement with, individuals in their neighbourhoods and communities." #BMJOpinion https://t.co/3uPCJp2AN7
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Mashup Score: 3Iran’s covid-19 vaccination programme: using transparency to build public trust in immunisation - The BMJ - 3 year(s) ago
A lack of transparency could hold back Iran’s covid-19 vaccination campaign, say Mahan Ghafari, Mohammad Saeid Rezaee-Zavareh, Stefan Dascalu, and Aris Katzourakis The production, allocation, and deployment of current covid-19 […]More…
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A lack of transparency and the risks of politicising public health measures may be seriously detrimental for the outcomes of Iran's covid-19 vaccination campaign, argues this #BMJOpinion https://t.co/nVaTBUQu5Y
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Mashup Score: 2Iran’s covid-19 vaccination programme: using transparency to build public trust in immunisation - The BMJ - 3 year(s) ago
A lack of transparency could hold back Iran’s covid-19 vaccination campaign, say Mahan Ghafari, Mohammad Saeid Rezaee-Zavareh, Stefan Dascalu, and Aris Katzourakis The production, allocation, and deployment of current covid-19 […]More…
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Greater transparency and a science driven vaccination campaign that is not hindered by pre-existing political tensions are paramount for increasing public trust in Iran's immunisation programme, argues this #BMJOpinion https://t.co/DI6y653xfk
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New tobacco and vaping legislation will go a long way to protect children’s health, writes @LeicesterLungs in a new #BMJOpinion piece https://t.co/H6bJ9iJPaT