Dr. Martin Abbass

We have this lower level scale where we hopefully will have sort of general self-help measures that you can do yourself.

And hopefully we'll give the clinicians tools with which to respond.

Because often if you don't have the tools to respond, you're kind of just floundering away and sort of treading water and just reverting back to sort of first principles.

How do I respond to a mental health condition?

How do I respond to anxiety?

How do I respond to these things?

And that might not be the right answer.

Two, we need to have...

clinicians or people who give the right information.

And we know that in some of the papers from MIT that if information comes out that is potentially incorrect or correct, it is usually the incorrect information that travels deeper and wider.

So obviously, if there is misinformation coming along,

then there's going to have to be some learning about communication from the clinician about how to address that poor communication.

Where do they get their communication and true information from as well?

You know, is it just off the hoof?

Is it from the news where some of the stuff was coming for previous pandemics?

I won't say the name.

And

You know, it's going to be a significant thing, which is why we say preparedness is key.

But we need the high level teams, the, you know, the Royal Colleges to accept that this might be something that might happen.

And yes, it may be low likelihood, but it's high impact.