Broadcasting - how to make the most of your pension
Our financial advice partner Quilter is organizing a free webinar on being fiscally sure in retirement.
The financial advisers have helped NHS partners and individuals make the most of their money following healthcare service – and a visit to the webinar might just pay off for you!
All of the details of the broadcast are on the poster, together with a QR Code to register your interest.
Plans are afoot to run a similar webinar in the New Year for those who are unavailable for the original broadcast.
Please continue to keep an eye on our FORTHCOMINGEVENTS page for all future gatherings on and offline!
Plea for diabetes equity
“The technology exists. The evidence exists. The guidelines exist. The next frontier in diabetes care is equity.”
That is the sign-off to a highly recommended polemic from Professor Naresh Kanumilli on the postcode lottery that still exists in diabetes management, from diagnosis through to the ability of patients to self-care. Learn more at https://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/partners/diabetes-care-has-transformed-but-a-postcode-lottery-threatens-to-undermine-it/
Prof Kanumilli presents the many positives technology has brought us, but makes this chilling observation, “right now, access to some of the most effective advances in diabetes care depends less on clinical need than on geography. That should concern every GP.”
This tract highlights exactly the type of issue BIDA campaigns on. Yes, we continue to be an organization that welcomes overseas medics to the UK, but we also want to ensure that background, race, gender etc. is absolutely no barrier to receiving quality healthcare.
Will you stand with us on that quest? Simply hit the JOIN BIDA TODAY link above,
Blog explores diabetes link
November is World Diabetes Month, and our membership is joining the campaign for better awareness, especially around the WHO’s November 14 day of action.
The campaign aims to highlight the importance of symptom recognition and urgent blood testing for pre-diabetes should those symptoms manifest themselves.
And typical of the BIDA response is Dr Anita Sharma’s call to ensure endometriosis sufferers are placed at the head of the queue in that process.
Our Women’s Healthcare Forum Chair has accessed research showing that so-called endo warriors have a 46% greater chance of contracting the Type Two version.
Dr Anita blogs about this subject in a piece now posted on our BLOGS page and originally used on the www.endometriosisawarenessnorth.com site.
An effective diabetes and heart failure treatement?
It being Diabetes Awareness Month in countries across the globe, we thought now might be the time to flag up an article in our latest journal - on Finerenone https://tinyurl.com/n74mxfa9
A non-steroid mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist, this is an oral medication blocking overactivation of the mineralocorticoid receptor, which can otherwise cause inflammation and fibrosis in the kidneys, heart, and blood vessels.
It has proved successful in the treatment of Type One and Two diabetes, but our article focuses firmly on its use in beating other conditions.
Heart failure is a clinical syndrome arising from structural and functional cardiac abnormalities. Around 900,000 people in the UK are affected by it and ten-year survival rates are below 25%.
Visit our BIDA Journal page for this fascinating piece and discover how you might contribute to the publication.
Our Mission
BIDA aims to support, encourage, train and acknowledge the wonderful work of Britain’s international doctors and dentists, without whom our NHS would simply collapse. We also promote understanding, tolerance, equity and fairness – join us, today at Join BIDA | British Internationa
The comfort of financial security
BIDA has worked in partnership with Quilter financial advisers since 2021.
The Wealth Management company give our membership sound investment and other monetary advice to enable them – and their families – to have a sound financial future.
Read more at https://www.quilter.com/financial-advice/advice-services/companies-we-work-with/bida/
From the President
Watch a message from our President on the 50-year-anniversary of BIDA and why we are founded on a philosophy of “friendship, dignity, respect and service above oneself.” https://www.youtube.com/shorts/C1HVB3oy2e8