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Hello, coming up in today's program, fighting fat, fighting fit.

Should healthcare professionals keep in shape to set an example to their patients?

Pain killers, we investigate growing concern that prescribing strong opioid painers like morphine for long-term non-cancer pain often does more harm than good, because they don't work that well and they have lots of side effects.

And New Year resolutions will be announcing ours a little later in the program.

But first, it's been a festive season that the NHS would no doubt like to forget.

Hospitals, GP out of hours and ambulance services have been stretched to near breaking point over the last couple of weeks.

And there's no sign of the pressure easing, with hospitals in my part of the South West having declared major incidents over the last few days.

Media coverage has suggested demand is up as people flock to A&E because they're finding it difficult to see their GP.

But talk to people working in A&E departments and it soon becomes clear that the problem is not so much inappropriate attenders

as an unprecedented number of very

poorly people, many of whom require admission. I caught up with Professor of Emergency Medicine

Tim Coates on his mobile in his busy department at Leicester Royal Infirmary. I think we are the same

as the rest of the NHS. It is extremely busy at the moment with a lot of sick patients coming through emergency departments all over the country.

We're seeing a lot of mainly elderly people, and I think probably the single biggest group will be those with infections of various types, either respiratory infections or perhaps infections of the urinary system.

So you're not being overwhelmed by inappropriate people? These are people who really do need

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