Experts in Health

NHS Clinical Director Dr Edward Hartley shares his decades of experience working in the NHS, how its funding, structures and patients have changed over time, where the real problems lie, and how we solve them.

Dr James King talks about how obesity develops, how exercise and diet help to fight against health difficulties not just weight loss, and how drugs might be the answer to the obesity epidemic.0.00-4.33 - Intro4.34-6.14 - Prevalence of obesity within society6.15-11.16 - Genetic components11.17-16.39 - Interacting factors around energy16.40-19.49 - Compensating for consumption with exercise19.50-22.25 - Types of exercise and their benefits22.26-27.42 - “Prescribed” movement and public health27.43-29.26 - Lifestyle behaviours vs motivation29.27-31.54 - Current research31.55-35.09 - Preventative exercise to improve health35.10-39.37 - Weight loss drugs39.38-41.48 - Upcoming research41.49-42.25 - Outro

Dr Kajal Gokal talks about 20 years of evidence showing that physical activity before, during and after cancer treatment is important for health, that rest typically isn’t best, and how we can get this message out to more people.0.00-6.00 - Intro6.01-10.24 - Prevention and management of cancer10.25-12.59 - Transition from ‘rest is best’ ideology13.00-16.43 - Barriers within research and communication16.44-20.17 - Exercise to benefit cancer patients20.18-23.17 - How patients can access resources23.18-26.54 - Current research26.55-29.51 - Inequality across demographics within research29.52-32.10 - Further information32.11-33.49 - Outro

Independent SAGE expert Dr Duncan Robertson shares his experience during the pandemic of providing independent advice to the government about how to best communicate about health and science to the public, what we learned, and how we can do better in a future pandemic.Timestamps:0.00-3.09 - Intro3.10-4.27 - Involvement in the Independent SAGE Group4.28-7.27 - Science communication during the COVID-19 pandemic7.28-9.31 - Relationship between Independent and Government SAGE and data9.32-11.32 - What would the pandemic have looked like if the government had astrategy?11.33-13.15 - Learnings within science communication13.16-16.32 - Find the correct way to resolve issues and developing trust16.33-22.17 - Political lens and the COVID inquiry22.18-25.37 - Disinformation within policy25.38-26.29 - Advent of artificial intelligence and its repercussions26.30-32.20 - Independent SAGE and new explorations32.21-33.49 - Placing blame33.50-36.01 - Outro

Professor Lauren Sherar talks about how children are less active now than ever before and how a whole-school approach is needed – even in lessons like maths and science – to reimagine the school day to get children more physically active.0.00-2.38 - Intro2.39-5.33 - Career background5.34-13.01 - Children’s physical activity and benefits of sports13.02-17.09 - Interventions in schools to increase activity levels17.10-24.12 - Teachers implementing active education24.13-28.25 - How to target less active demographics and the practicality of this28.26-32.52 - Current research explorations32.53-35.54 - Outro