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Inside Health

Antibiotics, Winter Flu, NHS Continuing Healthcare, Snoring

Inside Health

BBC

Health & Fitness, Science

4.4575 Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2014

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Dr Mark Porter reports on sleep apps, can they help with common sleep problems such as sleep apnoea? A new study reveals the failure of antibiotics for simple infections. Margaret McCartney reviews the evidence and asks is it worth having a flu jab? Plus who is eligible for NHS continuing health care.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, I'm Greg Jenna and good news, Your Dead to Me is back for a new series. Here we go. Yes, we'll explore Emperor Nero's notorious reign with Professor Marybeard and Patton Oswald. I would not want my daughter having the remote control, not alone an empire. We'll dissect the decadent life of Philippe Duke-Dor-Leon with Tom Allen. I've often tried to pretend I'm an aristocrat and being very quickly knocked down. And there'll be so much more with comedians like Olga Koch, Mike Mosniak and Rihalina. I'm excited. You're dead to me, the comedy podcast that takes history seriously. Listen first on BBC Sounds. Hello, I'm Dr Mark Porter and thank you for downloading this edition of Inside Health.

0:37.8

I hope you enjoy it.

0:39.3

Coming up in today's program, funding long-term care and the NHS,

0:43.8

I'll be examining claims that tens of thousands of people are missing out on help with the costs of care.

0:50.0

Continuing healthcare affects a small number of people in a very, very big way.

0:54.6

It can be incredibly stressful. It can be, it is incredibly emotive, and it can be emotionally exhausting.

1:02.7

Flu jabs, it's that time of year again.

1:05.1

Millions will be visiting their surgery for their annual jab over the next month or so.

1:09.7

But what do we know about the likely benefits?

1:12.4

Margaret McCartney's been looking at the evidence.

1:14.9

And if this sounds all too familiar,

1:21.4

don't miss our item on what your smartphone can tell you about how well you sleep

1:30.1

and whether you're snoring is anything to worry about.

1:33.6

But first, antibiotics, a new research looking at bacterial resistance in the community.

1:39.6

A team from Cardiff University looked at over 10 million prescriptions for four common infections

1:44.6

and found that the proportion that didn't work due to bacterial resistance

1:48.7

had risen from 13.9% in 1991 to 15.4% in 2012.

1:55.8

Chris Butler is a GP and professor of primary care at the universities of Oxford and Cardiff.

2:01.5

Chris, given the awful predictions of a post-antibiotic era where people could die from simple infections,

2:06.9

were you surprised by your findings, which seemed to suggest that resistance really isn't growing that quickly?

2:12.7

Yeah, so what we found was that treatment failure from single course of antibiotics had increased by over 10% overall during this 20-year study period.

2:25.3

But hidden within that were pretty dramatic increases in certain infections like lower respiratory tract infections, for example, that had increased by 35%.

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