This week we’re focusing on the NHS.

On the 3rd of July the UK’s Prime Minister, Kier Starmer finally announced the NHS’ 10 year plan. His Labour government laid out a vision for where the healthcare service should head over the next decade.

The announcement has been met with mixed responses. The plan has some good ideas - but a lack of vision combined with scarcity of detail leave many questions about how well its aims can be implemented.

In this podcast we're joined by 3 experts to dissect the details of this plan

• Jennifer Dixon is chief executive of the Health Foundation
• Katie Bramhall-Stainer is a working GP, and chairs the BMA’s General Practice committee.
• David Oliver is a consultant geriatrician, and a columnist for the BMJ

Reading list

News analysis: What is the NHS 10 year plan promising and how will it be delivered?

Editorial: Government’s 10 year plan for the NHS in England

David Oliver's column: The NHS 10 year plan—more a set of ambitions than a plan

Rebecca Coombes interviews Dr. Tom Dolphin, consultant anaesthetist and newly elected chair of the BMA Council.

Watch this interview on our YouTube.

Last December, The BMJ published an investigation into the 2009 PLATO trial - exposing serious problems with that study’s data analysis and reporting. Our follow up investigation has shown that those data problems extend to other key supporting evidence in AstraZeneca’s initial application to regulators.

Peter Doshi, senior editor in the BMJ’s Investigations unit, and Rita Redberg, cardiologist and Professor of Medicine at UCSF and former editor of JAMA Internal Medicine, join us to explain what this means for scientific integrity, and trust in the FDA's approval processes.

Also in this episode. A group of international authors are arguing that weightloss advice given in primary care might actually be doing more harm than good - it’s ineffective and potentially reinforces damaging stigma.

To explain why they came to that conclusion we're joined by Juan Franco editor in chief of BMJ EBM, and a practicing GP in Germany, and Emma Grundtvig Gram, from the Centre for General Practice at the University of Copenhagen

Reading list

Doubts over landmark heart drug trial: ticagrelor PLATO study

Ticagrelor doubts: inaccuracies uncovered in key studies for AstraZeneca’s billion dollar drug

Beyond body mass index: rethinking doctors’ advice for weight loss