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Psychiatrists and the media

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Rafiq Memon
Rafiq Memon*
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Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Trust, Reaside Clinic, Birmingham Great Park, Bristol Road South, Birmingham B45 9BE, email: rafiq.memon@bsmht.nhs.uk
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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 32 , Issue 1 , January 2008 , pp. 33
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I agree with the views of Dr Aslam (2007) encouraging colleagues to use the media as an educational tool. And I believe we can go one better by starting our own media organisations to output health information in various languages.

I help run Unity FM, a community radio station serving the Muslim population here in Birmingham. We broadcast programmes concerning both physical health and mental health issues. We also obtained some funding from a local primary care trust to run an infant mortality campaign recently.

If others wish to volunteer at the station, maybe as a guest to be interviewed on one of our shows, then please contact me.

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Aslan, N. (2007) Using the media as an educational tool. Psychiatric Bulletin, 31, 398.Google Scholar
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