The 5 things you need to do at your next GP appointment by TV’s Dr Nighat Arif
Postcards From Midlife
Lorraine Candy & Trish Halpin
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Trish & Lorraine welcome back GP extraordinaire & women’s health expert Dr Nighat Arif to talk about her new book The Complete Guide to Family Health: The One Stop Healthcare Guide No Home Should Be Without. From the midlife health checks every woman should ask for to protecting the mental health of your teen Dr Arif answers all our most asked family health questions. She also shares a helpful 5 point plan for getting the very best care from the NHS & why you should always trust your instincts about yours or a loved ones health.
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Plus: the TV shows we’re loving right now & why a rummage in your handbag is the ultimate friendship test!
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| 0:00.0 | Now, my little Trish, I just thought we'd start the show by talking about some rummaging, |
| 0:14.5 | because I know you like a bit of rummaging. I was just thinking, what a funny moment we had this |
| 0:20.0 | week, didn't we? When, you you know we've done everything together in our careers |
| 0:24.6 | We've we've been to fabulous catwalk shows we've seen Prince perform live at shows we saw the last ever Carl Largerfeld for Chanel show |
| 0:33.6 | We've travelled the world despite our humble backgrounds |
| 0:40.4 | And yet this week there I was at Oxford Circus Tube Station rummaging in your handbag for you looking for your travel |
| 0:48.0 | pass it feels like what a life we've led and what how has it brought us to this it's funny |
| 0:53.4 | isn't it? Because obviously, |
| 0:54.6 | we, we'd been to a business meeting, hadn't we? So I brought out one of the big guns in terms of the handbags, but it's got so many pockets. I mean, I never use these bags now, but it was it was an important meeting and it's got all these pockets and it's a really beautiful bag. could not find my and I was kind of you know you go ahead it's fine I'll find you |
| 1:12.6 | were like being like I was kind of you know you go |
| 1:11.1 | ahead it's fine off and you were like being like can't leave you can't leave lady in her 50s here |
| 1:16.8 | without her travel past exactly no one left behind on the oxford circus tube station found it in the |
| 1:24.9 | end what did we learn we learned that you don't put navy things in a black bag, didn't we? Because that's damned useless. Can't see anything anyway. It's certainly not when it's all colour. We also learnt, you know, who would you rummage for? That's kind of going to be the bar for friendship these days you're very kind there |
| 1:44.5 | was nothing too gruesome in there I don't know no it was fine you didn't mind |
| 1:48.0 | Margot furballs lurking in the bottom of the bag anyway so here we are back at our |
| 1:55.7 | lovely podcast now on this season of the show we have covered all aspects of health. I realized when I was |
| 2:03.2 | looking back through this morning, we've done your spiritual health, your emotional health, |
| 2:07.1 | we've done your physical health with your sleep, we've done metabolic health, longevity health. |
| 2:13.2 | But today, we're actually going to do everyone else's health, aren't we? Because we're going to tackle |
| 2:17.4 | family health because we've got a great guest on who's going to be doing that. |
| 2:22.2 | I think I'm the family GP actually because the kids, they're always ringing me to discuss their ailments. |
| 2:28.0 | Or may I say they're sometimes imaginary ailments? |
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