BMJ SRH Podcast

In this podcast, Dr Julia Bailey (Associate Professor, e-Health Unit at University College London and Specialty Doctor in Community Sexual Health, Southeast London, UK) discusses her lecture on ‘Contraception in the future: mobile phones and the internet’. Dr Bailey is speaking with Janie Foote, Editorial Manager of BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare (BMJ SRH) at the Faculty of Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare (FSRH) Annual Scientific Meeting held at Edgbaston Stadium, Birmingham, UK on 17–18 May 2018. https://srh.bmj.com/

In this podcast, Janie Foote, Editorial Manager of BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare (BMJ SRH) is in conversation with Linda Pepper, who recently joined the journal’s editorial team in the newly created role of Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) Editor. Linda talks about her extensive career in women’s healthcare and her long-standing links with a number of key patient organisations, and is clearly excited about the possibilities offered by her new journal role. Linda also talks about some of the lectures that she has found particularly relevant and stimulating, and reflects on how much (and in some respects how little) things have changed in the women’s sexual healthcare arena during the last 50 years. Linda and Janie were talking at the Faculty of Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare (FSRH) Annual Scientific Meeting held at Edgbaston Stadium, Birmingham, UK on 17–18 May 2018. http://srh.bmj.com

Annie Farrell, GP Partner in Liverpool, UK, reflects on the importance of patients being considered by General Practitioners "as a whole person rather than a symptom". Dr Farell spoke to Sandy Goldbeck-Wood, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care (JFPRHC), at the Institute of Psychosexual Medicine (IPM) Annual Scientific Meeting, in Liverpool, March 2017. For more information please visit the JFPRHC website: http://jfprhc.bmj.com/. Related content about this subject can be read here: http://jfprhc.bmj.com/content/43/4/335.1.

Two of the founders of the British Society of Abortion Care Providers (BSACP) talk to Janie Foote, Editorial Manager of the Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care (JFPRHC). Dr Tracey Masters, consultant in Sexual & Reproductive Health, Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, spoke on ‘Training and working in abortion care’ and Dr Patricia Lohr, Medical Director, bpas, London, covered ‘Recent technical advances in abortion care’. Drs Masters and Lohr were two of the invited speakers at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) International Women’s Day ‘Abortion Care: Our Responsibility’ event held at the RCOG in London, UK on Friday 3 March 2017. They identify their event highlights, and explain why they consider now is a particularly exciting time to be working in abortion care provision. Suggested related articles can be found in the January 2017 issue of JFPRHC: • “Reforming abortion services in the UK: less hypocrisy, more acknowledgement of complexity” - http://jfprhc.bmj.com/content/43/1/3. • "Identifying indicators for quality abortion care: a systematic literature review” - http://jfprhc.bmj.com/content/43/1/7. • "Quality and abortion services" - http://jfprhc.bmj.com/content/43/1/16. More information about abortion care can also be obtained on the British Society of Abortion Care Providers' (BSACP) website: http://www.bsacp.org.uk.

In this podcast, Dr Edna Astbury-Ward (Senior Lecturer, School of Social and Life Sciences, Glyndwr University, Wrexham, Wales) talks about her lecture on ‘The effect of unintended pregnancy and abortion on mental health and well being’ and discusses her future research plans. Dr Edna Astbury-Ward speaks to Janie Foote, Editorial Manager of the Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care (JFPRHC) at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) International Women’s Day ‘Abortion Care: Our Responsibility’ event held at the RCOG in London, UK on Friday 3 March 2017.

In this podcast, the winners of the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Health Care’s David Bromham Memorial Award 2016 are in conversation with Janie Foote, Editorial Manager of the Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care about the ‘My Body Back (MBB) Project’. The My Body Back (MBB) Clinic at St Bartholomew’s Hospital in London is a unique cervical screening clinic for women who have been sexually assaulted and was established in August 2015. The template for the clinic is one of time, space, listening, sharing control and an unspoken understanding of the particular difficulties faced by these women. After accepting the award, the winners spoke to conference delegates about the MBB Clinic two years on from its inception, and talking to them afterwards over a cup of coffee they tell Janie Foote more about the clinic and how it operates. The four women who shared the award for this project are: Dr Jill Zelin, Consultant GU Physician, Barts Health NHS Trust; Louise Cadman, Research Nurse Consultant at the Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, Queen Mary University of London; Jane Vosper, Clinical Psychologist working in sexual health and HIV services at Barts Health NHS Trust; and Pavan Amara, Founder of the ‘My Body Back Project’.

In this podcast, Janie Foote, Editorial Manager of the Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care (JFPRHC) talks to two of the participants at one of the afternoon workshops held at the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare’s Current Choices Conference held in London, UK in November 2016. The workshop was entitled ‘Prescribing not prosecuting: the impact of healthcare professionals’ legal duties on women and girls’ and it was led by Dr Jayne Kavanagh, Principal Clinical Teaching Fellow at University College London (UCL) Medical School, and Specialty Doctor in sexual and reproductive health at the Margaret Pyke Centre in London. Dr Kavanagh is a Principal Clinical Teaching Fellow at UCL, where she is responsible for designing and delivering the medical ethics and law undergraduate and postgraduate programmes at UCL Medical School. The workshop considered two controversial and timely topics, namely (1) the potential impact on consultations of mandatory recording, sharing and reporting of information about female genital mutilation (FGM) and (2) the requirements of a legally robust ‘abortion assessment’ consultation. The aim of the workshop was to explore the potential clash of clinicians’ legal duties with their professional duty to make the care of patients their first concern. I asked Drs Jilna Shukla and Priyanka Patel, both from Homerton Hospital in London, about their impressions of the workshop, and what they feel they will take away from it. http://jfprhc.bmj.com/

In this podcast, Dr Pushpam Chadha, Specialty Doctor and General Practitioner, reflects on her first visit to a Faculty Current Choices Conference, highlighting the sessions that she found particularly interesting, and outlining how she thinks the experience might benefit her practice. Dr Chad was in conversation with Janie Foote, Editorial Manager of the Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care (JFPRHC), at the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare’s Current Choices Conference held in London, UK in November 2016. http://jfprhc.bmj.com/

In this podcast, Dr Melanie Mann explores the importance of IPM training in sexual and reproductive health practice. The Consultant in Contraception and Reproductive Health and IPM's trainee talks about the relationship between the Institute of Psychosexual Medicine's seminar groups and 'real' consultations, feelings and examinations techniques that contribute to improve practices. Melanie Mann spoke to Sandy Goldbeck-Wood, the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care (JFPRHC), at the 2016's Institute of Psychosexual Medicine´s Annual Scientific Meeting, held in Bristol, UK.

In this podcast, Michelle Donald, Psychosexual Counsellor to a series of spinal injuries centres, tells her story on how she became involved with Psychosexual Therapy and how it is applied to people suffering from spinal injuries. This interview was conducted by Sandy Goldbeck-Wood, the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care (JFPRHC), at the 2016's Institute of Psychosexual Medicine´s Annual Scientific Meeting, held in Bristol, UK.