Talking Health - Patient Choice

In this week’s Talking Money, Poppy was joined by Leslie McQuigg from Wolters Kluwer to discuss the latest Making Tax Digital deadline. New research shows half of us don’t know what the scheme involves, and more sole traders and landlords will join it next April.

In this week's Talking Travel, Poppy was joined by Marcela Shehu, Dental Tourism Expert and Co-Founder of Dental Tourism Albania, and patient Paulo Ndjoba, who shared his personal experience of travelling to Albania for dental treatment and discussed the growing trend of dental tourism.

In this week's Talking Life, Kieran is joined by Midwife and Fertility Expert Zita West. They discuss why it's worth optimising your lifestyle when trying to conceive, what you can do to maximise your chances, and the things partners can do for themselves and one another during the process when complications arise.

In this week’s Talking Tech, Kieran takes on a suspicion that many people carry: that your phone is secretly listening to sell you adverts. He explains what investigators actually found, why the real answer is stranger than simple eavesdropping, and how those eerily accurate ads actually find you. He also outlines some small steps you can take to maintain your privacy.

In this week's Talking Health, Kieran is joined by Oral Health Educator Emma Riley. They discuss that, according to new research, dry mouth is the most overlooked side effect in the UK. They cover the most common causes, why people tend to ignore it, and what sufferers can do to cure their condition.

In this week’s Talking Money, Poppy was joined by Matt Dronfield the Managing Director of Debt Free Advice todiscuss the recent rise of interest rates and what this means for households.

In this week's Talking Travel, Rory talks about the strange phenomenon that could result in one in seven street parking spaces disappearing forever in the UK's cities – the advent of increasingly larger new cars. 

In this week's Talking Life, Kieran discusses a hidden health gap facing women across the UK - millions are iron deficient, and many have no idea. He is joined by Dr Gary Smyth, Medical Director at Randox Health, to discuss these findings and point women who think they may be one of the unlucky ones towards potential solutions.

In this week’s Talking Tech, Rory is joined by the CEO of the non-profit coding school Code Your Future to talk about what hope there is for junior software engineers entering the workforce, in a world where AI is largely taking over entry-level coding roles.

In this week's Talking Health, Kieran discusses Patient Choice - the legal right to request to be seen at independent or distant hospitals with shorter wait times for NHS surgeries. He is joined by Joy Cullen, a patient who used Patient Choice to be seen more quickly. He is also joined by Joe Attwood, Head of Clinical Services at Practice Plus Hospital Birmingham. PPH Birmingham is celebrating its 2nd anniversary. During this time, the independent hospital has seen over two thousand NHS patients.