Bullied by my kids; Alexandra Heminsley; Healthcare workers on the frontline
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2021
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Listeners and practitioners offer advice and support to parents living with violent children. Pat Craven from the Freedom Programme, and Karina Kelly who advocates Non-violent Resistance join Emma.
Author of Running Like a Girl, Alexandra Heminsley has written a new memoir about having a baby after much difficulty and finding out not long after that her husband is set on transitioning. She talks to Emma about this tumultuous time of her life.
The Chief Medical Officer, Professor Chris Whitty, has said this morning that right now we are at the worse point of the epidemic in the UK. He said over 30,000 people who have it are in the NHS system at the moment. In a tweet he's said "the number of people in ICU is rising rapidly." So what about the army of healthcare professionals who are looking after Covid patients? What's the toll on them? We've already had emails from healthcare workers saying they're close to handing in their notice because of the strain and others describing the daily stress and pressure on the wards. Emma speaks to a paediatric nurse who's been redeployed to an adult Intensive Care Unit. and Nicki Credland, Chair of the British Association of Critical Care Nurses.
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| 0:36.0 | Hello, it's Emma here with today's Woman's Hour Podcast. Hope you enjoy. |
| 0:41.0 | Good morning. Today we start the program with a powerful dispatch from the very |
| 0:45.3 | front line of our health service, an intensive care unit nurse, and a plea from |
| 0:50.1 | the chair of the British Association of Critical Care Nurses. |
| 0:53.4 | We cannot carry on like this, she says. |
| 0:56.4 | The nurse we're going to hear from who got in touch with us, so she feels out of her depth |
| 1:00.0 | and finishes her shift feeling devastated because she's unable to take pride in the way |
| 1:04.3 | she's cared for her patients. |
| 1:06.2 | As she puts it, I have to simply be grateful if they're alive. |
| 1:10.2 | We will hear her voice next and how she's doing. |
| 1:12.8 | But it's something else she told us in her original email |
| 1:15.6 | that I wanted to put to you this morning and get your take on. |
| 1:18.4 | She says she feels this time around in this version of lockdown |
| 1:22.0 | that public support for her and her colleagues |
| 1:24.9 | work is less visible and offers of food and accommodation for those on the |
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