We've published all this on the website, but two or three key points we made is, first of all, we've called for fewer more focused targets. Research in 2014 found that one in ten people wait over a year just to get an assessment for a talking therapy, while four in ten wait more than three months. At every turn, I was advised by my NHS GP to go private rather than wait for six months or more: first for a talking therapy, and then for the referralto a psychiatrist when we began to suspect that what I was suffering from might be a variant of post-traumatic stress disorder. A few years ago, a fellow political journalist asked me, quite sincerely, whether depression "really is an illness". How we do (and don't but should) treat depression - Medium Sign up for exclusive newsletters, comment on stories, enter competitions and attend events. 12 October 2022 Journalist Isabel Hardman talks to Matthew Taylor about the current state of politics, the NHS and what the health service can realistically deliver over the next few months and beyond. Hardman began her career in journalism as a senior reporter for Inside Housing magazine. This morning's shows heavily focussed on the crisis in the NHS, after the Royal College of Nursing voted against the . Hello and welcome to Health on the Line. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. The swim helped my mind return to working order. This may not be the easiest week of her career. Sometimes doing mindfulness sessions even made things worse, as I struggled to block out thoughts that I'd spent all day wrestling with, only to invite them through the open door as I sat for ten minutes in silence. ', Cricketer Graeme Fowler, who has written candidly about his depression, and his granddaughter Zara, Isabel Hardman, far left, on The Andrew Marr Show, Want to have children and a big career? Despite the Natural Health Service, I'm still sick. Were my anxieties unfounded? I mean, it's interesting to me that, you know, we have an economy suffering from labour shortages. She's been a regular contributor to a BBC One talk show hosted by Andrew Marr . The author also shares her impressions of the new health and social care secretarys approach, Isabel's own experiences of mental health and the book she is writing on the history of the NHS. Get involved in exciting, inspiring conversations. And obviously you have to have a discussion about social care within that because I find it frustrating, laughable, infuriating that Conservative politicians talk about how the NHS needs to be more efficient and apparently there's all these middle managers sort of, I don't know, painting their nails and going on away days or something or whatever they imagine to be happening. And that's not great. That's pretty unforgivable. But there's no way I would have cycled with him to nursery in London because that would be quite frightening with him on his bike, me on mine. You know what we ask people, what is the most important determinant of your own wellbeing health comes out pretty much at the top. So you know, things like active travel, keeping people active as part of their days rather than requiring them to take this phrase personal responsibility and somehow squeeze into that day a trip to the gym or something like that to sort of, you know, separating out exercise is another thing they have to add to their to do list as opposed to the thing that gets them to school, the thing that gets into work. Thank you for having me and for that lovely introduction as well. [19] Hardman gave birth to a son on 12 May 2020. Well, and the irony is this arguably the biggest reason we are where we are in terms of the problems of not just the health service in Britain, but I was talking to a senior NHS leader the other day who'd gone back to America to practice in his hospital. But it was the other health service that intervened in my recovery with even more dramatic results: the Natural Health Service the plants and animals of the great outdoors in all their myriad forms. As a subscriber, you are shown 80% less display advertising when reading our articles. And that, thanks to a kinder society, very kind employers, and my own random luck in being able to afford the right treatment, is exactly what Im now able to do once again. It's hard to know Isabel Hardman birth time, but we do know her mother gave birth to her on a Monday. Tune in for interviews with the movers and shakers making waves across health and care. So, just before we kind of get into the health-related elements of this, it is remarkable what's going on politically at the moment isn't it, Isabel? It was just that I eventually became too sick to do it. To people who like lying still, I'm sure mindfulness is great, but I'm a fidgeter. But you don't actually have to travel somewhere to see nature. Tasks that most people can do on autopilot, such as going grocery shopping, were utterly terrifying as they would remind me of things in my past. And he rose into cabinet, where eventually his career imploded over an entirely unrelated error of judgment. Lets not go there, because actually its the reaction of men not women to this story that is both fascinating and often really quite cheering. In 1917, it was declared extinct. So just today, we're seeing that the pace of nurses leaving the health service is accelerating. But they never acknowledge that they, as a political class, have failed the NHS and are causing it severe strain every day by dodging proper reform of social care. Refresh and try again. Views: 1 126. And I guess in a way Liz Truss is speaking to this when she talks about being bold and about growth. Secondly, more specifically, we said that we need proper investment in dentistry before we can expect ICSs to make progress when that responsibility is handed to them.
