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The Clin Comm Podcast
The Clin Comm Podcast is an audio podcast all about communication in healthcare - between professionals and patients, and within clinical teams. We explore the latest thinking in the field, and offer practical communication tips for busy healthcare professionals and patients.
Presented by Professor Graham Easton and the Clinical Communication Skills Team at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London. Produced by Julia Durbin.
Podcasting since 2020 • 9 episodes
The Clin Comm Podcast
Latest Episodes
Episode 9. Empathy in healthcare
We know patients prefer being looked after by health professionals with empathy – in simple terms the ability to put themselves in someone else’s shoes. But it’s not just a “nice to have”; there’s growing evidence that empathy is also ...
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Episode 9
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Episode 8: Risk Communication in Covid (with Sir David Spiegelhalter)
This episode is all about communicating about risks and statistics, [first broadcast during the Covid pandemic]. When you’re talking to patients – in the consulting room, on the phone, or perhaps even on the radio or TV - how do you explain the...
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Episode 8
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28:21
Episode 7: The Future of GP Consultations: Covid and beyond (with Dr Roger Neighbour)
How has the GP consultation changed during the turmoil of Covid - and what might it look like in the future for GPs and their patients? Where will the balance lie between remote and face-to-face consultations, and is there a danger of general p...
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Episode 7
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31:05
Episode 6: Vaccine Hesitancy conversations [motivational interviewing, with Prof Stephen Rollnick]
In this episode we explore how to have helpful and effective conversations with people who are hesitant to take a Covid vaccine [or any other vaccine]. We focus on Motivational Interviewing - a hugely influential and evidence-based counselling ...
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Episode 6
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38:09
Episode 5: Supporting medical students who volunteered during Covid
When Covid ambushed our lives back in March 2020, hundreds – even thousands – of medical, dental and physician associate students volunteered to support the National Health Service in whatever way they could. For most this was in at the very de...
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Episode 5
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27:10