Tegan Taylor

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Health Report · Less sugar in soft drinks; prescribing sociality; cervical cancer screening and Indigenous women; pandemic pregnancy · 22 Mar 2021 podcast

And we do have quite a lot of evidence that sugar isn't great in large quantities. voice-verified

Would you just cut and paste the UK approach here in Australia if it was up to you to make these decisions? voice-verified

Or is there other evidence from other countries that would also inform the ideal situation here in Australia? voice-verified

So how does the money flow here? voice-verified

Because you said before that if you put a tax on it then you can channel those funds into other public health campaigns but then you also said it hasn't affected their bottom line. voice-verified

What do you see as being the biggest barrier in Australia to just implementing something like this? voice-verified

Why focus on sugary soft drinks? voice-verified

Like there's lots of things in our food supply that are not optimal for our health. voice-verified

Why should this be a priority? voice-verified

Dr Alexandra Jones is a research fellow at the George Institute for Global Health and senior lecturer at the University of New South Wales. voice-verified

So how about if the next time you walked into your GP's rooms, you walked out with a prescription for a walking club or an art class or meditation sessions? voice-verified

It's called social prescribing and it's rooted in the fact that the vast majority of our health and wellbeing has nothing to do with the inside of a hospital or a doctor's surgery. voice-verified

We already know that things like exercise, meditation and human connection are good for us, so maybe doctors should be able to prescribe them as well as medications. voice-verified

Social prescribing has been gaining traction over the past few years, but while there are programs here and there in Australia, it's not embedded in our health system as a whole. voice-verified

Kate Mulligan has directed Canada's first large-scale social prescribing project and spoke about her findings last week at the Australasian Health Consumer Conference Shifting Gears. voice-verified

I spoke to Kate earlier. voice-verified

You're talking about not just the ability for a doctor to prescribe these sorts of social services, but also the provision of those social services in the first place. voice-verified

Right. voice-verified

So as you say, GPs often do this sort of prescribing informally. voice-verified

What's the purpose of having a formalized social prescribing framework? voice-verified

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