Low NHS morale; Flying when pregnant; Sugary drinks & menarche; FGM
Inside Health
BBC
4.4 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2015
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
With the NHS facing significant and enduring financial pressures, as people's need for services continues to grow faster than funding, what impact is all this having on NHS staff? New advice about flying if pregnant and new research that links drinking one can a day of a sugary drink to an earlier onset of puberty. Plus the sensitive issue of FGM.
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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, thank you for listening to this edition of Inside Health. I hope you enjoy it. Coming up in today's program, sugar and puberty, |
| 0:40.6 | we know too many sugary drinks can be bad for your teeth and your waistline, |
| 0:44.9 | but could they also be lowering the age that girls start having their periods? |
| 0:49.5 | Aeroplanes and pregnancy. |
| 0:51.3 | Margaret McCartney takes a closer look at new guidance on when it's safe to fly. |
| 0:55.8 | And female genital mutilation, FGM. |
| 0:59.1 | The time they held you down in the floor and they cut you, that's the time you need to fight for your life. |
| 1:05.3 | So that's what I did. And lucky me, I'm still here. |
| 1:09.6 | A terrifying experience. |
| 1:11.9 | Awareness of FGM in the UK has never been higher, |
| 1:14.3 | but most people still don't really understand what it involves. |
| 1:17.5 | Later on, we'll be answering the questions people are often too afraid to ask. |
| 1:22.0 | But first, the state of our health service, or more accurately, the state of the people who work in it. |
| 1:27.7 | The NHS is struggling to cope with demand at the moment, |
| 1:30.5 | thanks to the combination of winter pressures, limited resources, |
| 1:34.2 | and the biggest administrative overhaul it's faced in its 66-year history. |
| 1:38.6 | And its staff appear to be struggling too. |
| 1:41.1 | I'm a GP, and I was crying on the way into work, completely exhausted. It's just so |
| 1:47.6 | stressful running a practice. You can't trust people higher up and there just isn't the money. What do I do? |
| 1:54.2 | Not pay my receptionist? Drop services? According to the latest NHS staff survey, |
| 1:59.9 | 59% of those responding don't feel valued. |
| 2:04.0 | 39% have felt unwell due to work-related stress in the last year. |
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