Cardiac Rehab, Withdrawing from Antidepressants, Middle Ear Implant
Inside Health
BBC
4.4 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2018
⏱️ 28 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
There are many myths about recovery from a heart attack. The most dangerous is that exercise is too risky. The truth is that for most people, they should be doing much more exercise, not less. Patrick Doherty, Professor of Cardiovascular Health at York University and lead author for the National Audit of Cardiac Rehab tells Dr Mark Porter that 70,000 people who should be accessing life saving cardiac rehabilitation therapy are missing out. The answer? Don't blame the patients but improve the design of rehab packages, he says. Inside Health visits a rehab session at Charing Cross Hospital in London and hears from cardiac patients about the impact of supported exercise programmes on their health.
A group of psychiatrists, psychologists and patients have complained to the Royal College of Psychiatrists about the withdrawal effects of antidepressants. They say claims that side effects are resolved, for the majority of patients, within a few weeks of stopping treatment are false and in fact, many people suffer unpleasant, frightening symptoms for much longer. Inside Health's Dr Margaret McCartney looks at the evidence.
We're all familiar with hearing aids, amplifiers which boost volume in a failing ear. And you might have heard of cochlear implants which, in people too deaf for aids, can be used to send signals directly to the inner part of the ear, and on to the brain. But in the future we're likely to hear more about middle ear implants, devices implanted because the outer ear hasn't developed properly. ENT surgeons at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital in London, Professor Dan Jiang and Harry Powell, have performed a middle ear implant on the UK's youngest ever patient, Charlotte Wright was just three years old when she had this pioneering treatment.
Producer: Fiona Hill.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Hello, you're about to listen to a BBC podcast, and I'm Ed Gamble, host of another BBC podcast, |
| 0:05.4 | The Traitors Uncloaked. But my show is available only on BBC Sounds, just like Ellis and John's |
| 0:10.6 | Saturday bonus episodes, the Pop Top Ten podcast with Scott Mills and Ryland, and comedy specials |
| 0:16.2 | from the likes of Harriet Kemsley, Susie Ruffel and Rommas Shranger Nathan. However, and maybe I'm biased, it's really all about the traitors uncloked. |
| 0:24.3 | So for a whole bunch of exclusive scoops and podcasts, listen only on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:29.4 | Hello, thank you for listening to this edition of Inside Health. |
| 0:32.1 | I hope you enjoy it. |
| 0:33.4 | Coming up over the next half hour, middle ear implants, the new technology filling the gap between conventional hearing aids and cochlear implants. |
| 0:42.0 | We meet the youngest person in the UK at just three years old to have benefited, and her mother will never forget the day it was turned on. |
| 0:49.8 | Her eyes widened, her mouth dropped, she was looking around. And obviously we're at St. Thomas's, |
| 0:55.1 | so then we walked on the South Bank afterwards, |
| 0:57.6 | and it's really windy, and she was covering her ears, |
| 1:01.1 | and whoa, the wind, the wind. |
| 1:04.4 | And we return to antidepressants. |
| 1:06.8 | Margaret McCartney's been examining the evidence |
| 1:08.9 | behind recent claims that they're not as easy to stop taking as many patients are told. |
| 1:14.7 | But first, recovering from a heart attack and a worrying audit by the British Heart Foundation |
| 1:19.6 | that reveals around 70,000 people a year in the UK are missing out on potentially life-saving and life-changing cardiac rehabilitation therapy. |
| 1:30.3 | Joining a rehab program after you've had a heart attack can reduce your risk of dying over the next year by as much as a fifth. |
| 1:36.9 | And cardiac rehab is now part of the routine NHS care. |
| 1:40.6 | Yet half of all those eligible still don't take up the offer. |
| 1:45.8 | Why? To find out, |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from BBC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of BBC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

