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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.
The Clin Comm Podcast
Episode 3: Communicating with relatives and patients in critical care; & breaking bad news during Covid
This episode looks at communicating with patients and their relatives in critical care during the Covid pandemic – and particularly the challenges of breaking bad news. All three guests are part of a team in Adult Critical Care at The Royal London Hospital who - like many units around the globe - had to come up with new ways of communicating remotely with relatives during the crisis, and which have left a lasting legacy on communicating post-pandemic.
[First broadcast June 1st, 2020]
Guests: Dr Lynne Barrass is a Consultant in Critical Care Medicine; Dr Polly Fitch is a clinical psychologist; and Dr Amina Daou is a Foundation Year 1 doctor (when she started helping the unit he was a medical student).
Presenter: Prof Graham Easton