Until recently, The BMJ had a campaign of patient partnership - now we have a patient and public partnership campaign. The reason for that change is that medicine has an effect beyond the individual being treated - and this podcast interview is a very good example of that.
Anya De Iong, patient editor for The BMJ, talks to Christine Morgan - independent chair of the Greater Manchester Carers Strategic Group. Christine has a mission to bring the needs of carers into thinking and planning about the NHS - and explains how the needs of patients and carers may be similar, and different.
