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Doctor Informed

Doctor Informed

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A podcast for hospital doctors Medical expertise is fundamental to the practice of medicine. But other skills and knowledge are important too. Doctor Informed gives the inside story on the evidence about giving the best care and having positive relationships with patients and colleagues. Created in collaboration with THIS Institute, and sponsored by Medical Protection. www.bmj.com/podcasts/doctorinformed
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Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best Doctor Informed episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to Doctor Informed for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite Doctor Informed episode by adding your comments to the episode page.

Doctor Informed - Why is it so hard to speak out about patient safety?
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01/21/22 • 37 min

In the previous episodes of Doctor Informed, we've heard why it's so important to talk about patient safety concerns, and some of the mechanisms that allow hospital staff to raise them, but knowing why and how doesn't always make it easier to speak out. In this episode we're exploring the concept of a voiceable concern – identifying what counts as a concern, and what counts as an occasion for voice by an individual, is not a straightforward matter of applying objective criteria- for example how do you tell if you're witnessing poor practice, or just something that lies outside your area of understanding? Or how do you know if the common practice in this particular ward is actually an outlier when looking at other hospitals? Our guests this week; Mary Dixon-Woods is director of THIS Institute, and a Health Foundation Professor of Healthcare Improvement Studies in the Department of Public Health and Primary Care at the University of Cambridge. Her work is concerned with generating a high quality evidence-base to support the organisation, quality and safety of care delivered to patients. Zoe Fritz is a consultant in acute medicine at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, she is also a Wellcome Fellow in society and ethics at THIS Institute, investigating how we communicate and record uncertainty around diagnosis. Reading: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34978470/ www.bmj.com/podcasts/doctorinformed/

https://www.thisinstitute.cam.ac.uk/podcast/

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Doctor Informed - Reflecting on a crisis

Reflecting on a crisis

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08/09/22 • 53 min

Previous Doctor Informed episodes have discussed how to prevent patient safety issues from occurring, but sometimes situations are beyond anyone's control - like COVID. It can be hard to look back, especially if difficult decisions and compromises were made, including ones we did not completely agree with, or if there could be criticism of the way we responded. We ask how individual doctors, teams, and organisations could respond to and recover from major problems? In this episode, we're joined by Annelieke Driessen, a THIS Institute fellow and medical anthropologist. She is a research fellow at the University of Oxford and honorary assistant professor in medical anthropology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, who has spent hours listening to and understanding patient experiences of ICU during the pandemic. We'll also hear from Dominque Allwood, Chief Medical Officer at UCL Partners, and Director of Population Health at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, who focuses on creating positive change in healthcare.

The research Annelieke Driessen discussed, and the full versions of the patient interviews that are included in the podcast are available at https://healthtalk.org/Experiences-of-Covid-19-and-Intensive-Care/overview

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Doctor Informed - ”But it’s always been done that way”
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05/30/22 • 50 min

In Doctor Informed, we've been hearing a lot about the problems of healthcare, but we also want to talk about solutions. Whatever we're going to do to fix healthcare, whether that's bullying, or burnout, or patient safety - it's going to require change. And change is hard. In this episode Clara Munro is joined by Graham Martin, director of research at THIS Institute. They discuss the dreaded phrase "But it's always been done this way", and why failing is the path to success, and the true importance of listening. Our guests; Penny Pereira, Q managing director at the Health Foundation. Q helps promote improvement within the health and care system, encouraging and supporting a wide range of people to effectively lead improvement. https://www.health.org.uk/about-the-health-foundation/our-people/q-and-q-labs-team

Moira Durbridge, director of safety and risk at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust. Moira trained as a nurse, and continues to work clinically, as well as her role in leading her Trust's change.

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Doctor Informed - Doctor Informed - Medicine’s me too moments
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04/04/22 • 42 min

In this episode we’re going to be talking about misogyny in surgery, recent revelations about sexual harassment in the theatre have emerged - but these behaviours have been endemic for a while, even as the profession seemed to ignore them. Joining Clara Munro is Baroness Helena Kenned, the author of a recent report into diversity in medicine, who, as a barrister, has long worked on discrimination cases. The reports mentioned in the episode are from the Royal College of Surgeons;

https://www.rcseng.ac.uk/about-the-rcs/about-our-mission/diversity-review-2021/

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Doctor Informed - Everyone’s going to make a mistake
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03/17/22 • 51 min

Medicine is complex, and as a doctor you won't always do the right thing - but you can prepare yourself for when mistakes happen, both emotionally and logistically. In this episode of Doctor Informed, Clara Munro is joined by Susanna Stamford, a patient who was on the receiving end of a mistake, which catalysed her interest in patient safety. We're also joined by Anthea Martin, from Medical Protection, who dispels some myths about saying sorry. Ayisha Ashmore returns to the pod to digest the lessons from our experts. Futher reading: The video that Susanna mentioned is available to watch on youtube

bitly.com/ManagingAdverseEvents

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Doctor Informed - The blame game

The blame game

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02/25/22 • 51 min

In previous episodes of Doctor Informed, we've talked about the importance of speaking out, but the culture in your organisation might not always make that easy, especially if you feel something has gone wrong and you might be blamed for it. Blame culture, no blame culture, just culture - there are many terms which are used to describe the environment in which individuals and teams work, the feel within a team and an organisation. In this episode we'll explore what they mean, why blame can be detrimental to patient safety, and give some tips on how to investigate problems without throwing blame around. Our guests in this episode; Joselle Wright - Deputy Director of Midwifery, Gynaecology and Sexual Health at Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust

Susanna Stanford, who became involved in patient safety after experience of a spinal anaesthetic failing during a c-section in 2010. She is an ambassador for the Clinical Human Factors Group.

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Doctor Informed - Learning to listen

Learning to listen

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02/04/22 • 47 min

In previous episodes of Doctor Informed, we've talked about the importance of speaking out, and how to do that better, but as you progress through your medical career, you will become the person to whom those with problems will turn. In this episode we will explore listening. As a senior clinician, how can you make the space in your work to be a good listener, when what you hear might not be what you want to hear? Our guests; Megan Reitz is a professor of Leadership and Dialogue at Hult Business School. John Higgins is research director at The Right Conversation. Reading Speaking truth to power: why leaders cannot hear what they need to hear

https://bmjleader.bmj.com/content/5/4/270

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Doctor Informed - Who is responsible for patient safety?
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12/16/21 • 41 min

As clinicians, we're all taught that patient safety is everyone's responsibility - but on the ground it can be hard to know how to most effectively report concerns, especially if you're not sure how those concerns will be received. In this episode of Doctor Informed, Clara Munro is joined by Ayisha Ashmore, and they ask "who is actually responsible for patient safety?" To answer that we're joined by 2 guests Bill Kirkup, independent investigator who has worked on the reports into failings in Mid-Staffordshire, and Gosport.

Henrietta Hughes - GP, and the NHS's first guardian, Henrietta championed the creation of freedom-to-speak-up guardians in the English NHS, to ensure that clinicians are able to freely speak out.

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Doctor Informed - Life Support - Being a compassionate colleague
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11/30/21 • 49 min

In this episode of Doctor Informed, Clara Munro is joined by Ayisha Ashmore - and they're getting to grips with being a compassionate colleague. While the topic might seem warm and fuzzy, there's some good hard science to suggest that compassionate leadership at every level of healthcare can make a huge difference to staff, and improve patient outcomes. Most people innately have the skills need to be compassionate colleagues - but often the pressures of the job can make it the lowest of priorities in our everyday interactions. Our two guests this week think that's wrong though - and say that compassionate leadership is one of the most important things to get right. Joining us are, Michael West, senior fellow at The King's Fund and professor of Work and Organisational Psychology at Lancaster, and Bob Klaber, consultant general paediatrician and director of strategy, research and innovation at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust Michael has written the book on compassionate leadership in health and social care - https://tinyurl.com/vh55mker. You can read more about Bob's work in his blog - https://www.imperial.nhs.uk/about-us/blog/how-acts-of-kindness-can-improve-care-and-strengthen-teams

Ayisha has written about putting some of this all into practice in a maternity setting - https://bmjleader.bmj.com/content/early/2021/11/25/leader-2021-000449

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Doctor Informed - Addiction in doctors

Addiction in doctors

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04/21/23 • 59 min

Everyone has coping mechanisms, but sometimes those ways of coping become problem behaviours - addictions. In this episode of Doctor Informed, we're focussing on how to spot the signs that you may be sliding into addiction, how to have conversations with friends and colleagues if you worry about their behaviour, and how seeking treatment is the best way to avoid GMC scrutiny. Joining Clara Munro are Liz Croton and Zaid Al-Najjar, GPs who work for NHS Practitioner health - a mental health and addiction service specifically for health professionals. They are also joined by Ruth Mayall, a retired consultant anaesthetist who has experienced addiction herself, and has contributed to the Association of Anaesthetists guidance on drug and alcohol abuse. Some resources mentioned in the podcast; NHS Practitioner Health https://www.practitionerhealth.nhs.uk/ The Sick Doctor's Trust http://sick-doctors-trust.co.uk/ British Doctors & Dentists Group https://www.bddg.org/ Substance use disorder in the anaesthetist https://anaesthetists.org/Home/Resources-publications/Guidelines/Substance-use-disorder-in-the-anaesthetist Substance abuse in anaesthetists

https://academic.oup.com/bjaed/article/16/7/236/2196385?login=false

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FAQ

How many episodes does Doctor Informed have?

Doctor Informed currently has 24 episodes available.

What topics does Doctor Informed cover?

The podcast is about Podcasts and Technology.

What is the most popular episode on Doctor Informed?

The episode title '”But it’s always been done that way”' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Doctor Informed?

The average episode length on Doctor Informed is 49 minutes.

How often are episodes of Doctor Informed released?

Episodes of Doctor Informed are typically released every 26 days, 20 hours.

When was the first episode of Doctor Informed?

The first episode of Doctor Informed was released on Oct 24, 2021.

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