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11 November 2010
Since the launch of the White Paper on Self Care earlier in the summer several of our members have been active promoting the campaign to the media. This culminated at a presentation at the Primary Care Live conference at Excel, where the emphasis was on the colossal sums of money that could be saved without any loss to standards of patient care. This fact has not escaped the government, and the Minister for Health Andrew Lansley MP will be attending a meeting in London on November 11th to hear these proposals in more detail from representatives from the Royal College of General Practitioners, Royal College of Nursing, the NHS Alliance and the National association of Primary Care.
29 October 2010
The Medicine Cabinet
Whilst there are almost endless sources of factual information on health and disease for the general public, there are very few authoritative websites reviewing modern advances in disease and its management. With this in mind Media Medics are collaborating with a project called ‘The Medicine Cabinet’ a video based website featuring documentary interviews with medical specialists throughout the UK. We hope the site will be ready to go live in November and offers the opportunity for many of our members to showcase their work if they have a topic and contributors they would like to include.
October 2010
Adventis Health is producing a series of e-learning modules for doctors and Media Medics are contributing all of the experts. Drs Trisha Macnair and Anouska Hari have already recorded two of the six modules, which cover presentation skills, media handling, effective meetings, leadership skills and more. They are filmed on a soundstage in central London and combined with graphics and animation to produce interactive web based video programmes illustrating the pitfalls, preparation and successful strategies needed.
October 2010
Dr Gill Jenkins has a particular interest in dermatology, and presented to a large group of journalists the background to the structure of the skin and how chemical contacts as well as topical treatments affect it, at the famous Ivy restaurant in Covent Garden.
30 September 2010
4 experts in Multiple Sclerosis recorded a number of pod casts for MS Linx, a website designed for both the public and professionals working in primary and secondary care. Recorded at Halo, a broadcast studio near the BBC in London, contributions included discussions around the team approach to shared care, developments in imaging in diagnosis and monitoring, and the support needed throughout all stages of the disease.
9 September 2010
Media medics have been producing the television and radio components for the univadis website for doctors for several years. The most recent recording session included seven of our members who contributed both news and opinion on a variety of medical subjects, from a review of the management of bipolar disorders to sports injuries and inevitably the government plans for the future NHS.
The next session is scheduled for January 2011.
August 2010
Pfizer have been producing a series of in house video programmes for their international representatives, showing the ways that
the company interacts with doctors and providing guidance on the most effective methods of educating and sharing information.
Three doctors from general practice and hospital medicine spent three long days recording the role plays at the heart of these videos; a further series is planned for the New Year.
30 June 2010
The summer programme of meetings has concluded with a meeting over dinner at the Lancaster Hotel near Hyde Park. The topic was is the management of pain and the meeting started with Professor Tony Dickenson from University College and Dr Beverly Collett, past president of the British Pain Society, reviewing the pathophysiology of pain and the challenges of pain management.
Professor Irene Tracey, director of the Oxford Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging then provided a fascinating insight into the imaging of pain mechanisms. So revolutionary were her techniques that at least one of the audience offered to give up his day job and go and work for her! The formal part of the evening concluded with Professor Dickenson discussing a new class of analgesic. The subsequent discussion over dinner was animated, even by the standards we usually enjoy.
9 June 2010
Just two weeks after the previous meeting another group were in the same venue at the Langham Hotel. A very different subject this time, the health benefits of tea. Contrary to popular belief, tea has been shown to be just as hydrating as water or other liquids, with no diuretic effect for most people. In addition antioxidant properties have appreciable cardiovascular benefits. The group were entertained to a variety of teas after an excellent dinner, including some extremely rare and to certain tastes very odd flavours. Fortunately other beverages were available to the palate.
26 April 2010
Around 20 doctors met in a private room at the Langham Hotel in Regent Street, at an evening meeting hosted by the Proprietary Association of Great Britain. Recent research has shown that over 50 million consultations a year in general practice are for minor and self limiting illness, the total cost of which is estimated to be around half the current shortfall in funding of the entire NHS. The proposal was to help promote self care, an education programme to help people regain the confidence to look after themselves and seek advice from any of the available resources appropriately. It was stressed that self care does not mean no care.
Since the meeting the response has been such that a one day conference is planned in November, which will be attended by Andrew Lansley, the Minister for Health. We hope he shares our view that in the current climate huge financial savings with no loss to the quality of service must be worth examination.