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Drug and Therapeutics
Bulletin (DTB) –
Celebrating 50 years of
independent advice
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A thank you to Lifebox
BMJ Journals
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NEWS
New to the BMJ Group
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BMJ Group Improving
Health Awards Page
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Success for Informatica
BMJ Olympics portal
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Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin (DTB) –
Celebrating 50 years of independent advice
For the past 50 years, Drug and Therapeutics
Bulletin (DTB) has continued to make a
significant impact on prescribing practice.
Today, we continue to improve the quality,
safety and effectiveness of patient care,
and to help us achieve this we recently
introduced the following features:
• DTB Select - concise summaries on
recently published clinical guidance,
safety warnings and other treatment
advice
• DTB CME/CPD - based on DTB articles
and produced in association with BMJ
Learning, these modules can be
completed and added to your portfolio,
to help you keep track of your CME/CPD
credits online
• DTB review articles - informed,
unbiased information on medical
conditions, medicines and other
treatments
• Online first – regular emails that alert
you when new DTB content has been
published online - before it’s published
in print
….and a first birthday for
BMJ Open
BMJ Open, BMJ Group’s new open access
journal, celebrated its first birthday in
February. Over 300 articles have now been
published, featuring a wide range of
international medical and healthcare
research. BMJ Open tries to bring the story
Coming soon…
As 2012 is DTB’s
50th anniversary, we
are planning a series of
activities. Look out for
more information about
these celebrations on
dtb.bmj.com.
SPRING 2012
of the research together in one place. The
journal publishes protocols for upcoming
studies, helping researchers stay on top of
what is in the pipeline; integration with the
Dryad repository lets authors link their
articles to raw datasets; peer review history
for accepted articles is available online;
comments and letters are welcomed; and
articles’ usage and citation statistics are
updated online daily. Several papers have
received widespread international media
coverage and substantial online comment,
most notably the paper published in
February this year on the association
between sleeping pills and mortality.
See more at http://bmjopen.bmj.com or
follow the journal on Twitter @BMJ_Open.
BMJ GROUP NEWS 1

A thank you from Lifebox – for a donation
of nearly thirty thousand pounds
BMJ editorial staff were pleased to receive a thank you letter from Lifebox, the BMJ’s Christmas charity, which provides pulse
oximeters for hospitals in resource poor settings. Rebecca Coombes and David Payne led the initiative in editorial and were
thrilled at the response to such a worthwhile cause.
BMJ Journals debut on small screen
Continuing where Emergency Medicine Journal left last year, our web development team has just launched five more mobile optimised sites for
Archives of Disease in Childhood, Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, Gut, Heart, and Thorax.
The optimised sites are being rolled out in three phases across 36 of our specialist journals, with work due for completion by June. The sites
automatically redirect and work on any mobile device, regardless of platform.
Designed for smaller screens and lower bandwidths, this exciting development will see new ways of engaging with our audience – and
generating revenue – as the world increasingly turns mobile.
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New to BMJ Group
Jay Lippincott
Jay has recently
been appointed as
a non-executive
director of the
Group. During his
time as past
president and CEO
of the Professional
& Education Unit of
Wolters Kluwer’s Health Division, Jay helped
to grow it into the second largest health
care publisher in the world. He was also
previously president and CEO of Kluwer
Academic Publishers. Jay said about his
appointment ‘I am keen to bring to the
Board my experience in all aspects of STM
publishing with a US perspective, an
important market for future growth. I
greatly admire and respect what the Group
is doing, and hope that I can help advance
its mission and contribute to its continued
success.’
Dr James Cave OBE
James Cave has
been appointed to
a new post as
Editor-in-Chief for
DTB. He is a full
time GP partner in
Berkshire, and a
regular GP Update
writer and
presenter, and he hopes to be able to
dedicate around one day per week to DTB
activities. James will be working closely with
the Evidence Centre team to drive the
editorial content and strategy for DTB, and
with the Publishing, Production and
Marketing teams to continue to ensure that
DTB reaches out to healthcare professionals
caring for the needs of patients.
Peter Sparrow
Peter Sparrow has
recently joined the
BMJ Clinical
Improvement
Department as
Sales Director.
Previous to this he
worked for Dr
Foster Intelligence a
provider of healthcare informatics to the
NHS and publisher of the The Good
Hospital Guide. Prior to this Peter was with
Oracle Corp for over 12 years in various
senior sales roles both in software and
consulting lines of business and was
responsible for building multi-million pound
businesses in Healthcare IT systems and
services. Peter is excited by the opportunity
to help bring innovative new products and
services to market in the UK and overseas,
and leading the sales team to become the
very best in the industry.
Jennie Heals
As the Group’s
new Head of
Commercial
Operations, Jennie
brings a wealth
of senior
management
experience in
operations and
process re-design, most recently a seven
year tenure with Cengage (Thomson
Learning) and prior to that with Pearson
Education. Jennie’s immediate focus will be
the implementation of KPI’s across the
Commercial division and the process redesign
needed to drive performance against
those measures.
Andrew Altmann
Andrew is the new
Sales Director for
our Journals/library
business. Andrew
brings over 20 years
of journal
experience, most
recently as Group
Commercial
Director for Inform, where he’s led double
digit growth across both subscriptions and
advertising sales on Nursing Times & the
Health Service Journal. Previously Andrew
served 10 years with The Economist Group
building businesses in Central and Eastern
Europe and well as China and Asia where he
was based for 7 years. His knowledge of
international market development, together
with his strong sales leadership credentials
uniquely equip him for this role. Of his new
position at the Group, Andrew said “I really
am looking forward to building on a real
success story here at the BMJ Group. Of
particular interest is the development of the
regional hubs in emerging markets which
appear to be a real growth opportunity.”
BMJ GROUP NEWS 3

BMJ Group Improving Health Awards
The shortlist for the BMJ
Group Awards 2012 was
announced mid-March and
doctors and medical
professionals only have
until Wednesday 23rd May
to find out if they are the
winners in their category.
Those shortlisted include the England and Wales Cricket Board
Science and Medicine Team, the British Horseracing Authority and
the Leicester Kidney Exercise Team. In particular, entries from
Birmingham and East of England have seen a high rate of success
and those shortlisted for an award include the Dudley Clinical
Commissioning Group, the Birmingham Whittal Street Clinic, the
NHS Nottingham City Clinical Commissioning Group and the
Headsmart team, also based in Nottingham.
The competition is strong this year with a high calibre of entries
in all categories. One new award, the Sport and Exercise Medicine
Team of the Year, has even seen entries from teams involved in
the Olympics.
Guests include Channel 4 News
presenter Jon Snow, TV doctors
from Channel 4’s Embarrassing
Bodies and other distinguished
guests, such as cardiologist Dr
Andrew Deaner, who recently
leapt from the crowd to help
resuscitate premiership footballer
Fabrice Muamba on the pitch.
Comedy actress
Sally Phillips is
the host for the
BMJ Group
Awards 2012.
Note that table bookings are now open for what
promises to be a truly memorable event at
groupawards.bmj.com.
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Informatica team provides
top customer service
The Informatica Customer Support team
scored highly in our first ever customer
satisfaction survey since the acquisition of
Informatica by BMJ Group.
The team scored an average of at least six
out of seven on the eleven customer service
attributes measured. This puts it on a par
with leading companies in the customer
service field such as FirstDirect. Most free
text comments were also extremely
positive.
The only areas for possible improvement
were to provide telephone support from
8.00 am (when many GP Practices open)
instead of the current 8.30 am.
New – Best Practice app
Clinicians need access to the latest evidence,
guidelines and expert opinion on the go -
but it’s not always possible to check an
online resource when on the ward.
These requirements led the BMJ Evidence
Centre to create a dedicated app version of
our decision support tool, Best Practice,
which provides immediate access to reliable
evidence-based information in a format
specially designed for easy browsing on
Apple iOS devices (including iPhone and
iPad).
Our institutional customers can now
upgrade their Best Practice subscription to
include access to the app for all employees
– customers should contact their local sales
representative or our customer services
team for further information
We are all set for the
Olympics
Find out what’s happening in sports medicine
As Olympic athletes build up for London 2012 we have launched the BMJ Olympics
portal [CLICK HERE]
We will be publishing more about sports medicine than usual across our many
publications and products – from now until the end of the Olympics and Para-Olympics
you can access some of our best resources on sports medicine- without needing a
subscription.
We’ve got learning modules on acute ankle lateral ligament injuries [CLICK HERE], our
latest BMJ Investigation “What can we learn from asthma in elite athletes?”
[CLICK HERE] and some of the best sports blogs in the world from Dr Karim Khan, the
editor of our sports medicine journal BJSM.
You can join in the discussions on our Olympics forum [CLICK HERE] and catch up with
the latest on the track and other Olympic venues with our tweets [CLICK HERE]
For key sports medicine resources on the portal go to bmj.com/olympics [CLICK HERE]
BMJ GROUP NEWS 5