It's because of a breakdown blocking a couple of lanes trying to find on camera actually but 2nd Syracuse on the speed sensors but the breakdown itself which is in the middle and outside lanes were told quite see but yeah queuing westbound into towards London approaching junction one with this breakdown and just checking in 20 that's fine and 25 doing rather well 856 southbound store shot from the 5 is right about now on to the monks where junction 7 Oaks some was wrong because of the emergency repairs the a 21 is looking much better as the sun looks bypasses Cunial following a crash I think that's goal of the queues as the queues have eased and checking the trains or Eurostar say reduced service because of the continued strike action in France just beware if you are heading into London really slow towards a black hole tunnel not helped by the closure of the road the tunnel in the capsule will travel news in 20 minutes b.b.c. Radio Kent call Steve thank you James 4 minutes past 10 is the time Stephen for Jules until 12 o'clock today we're talking about stress in the workplace this morning it comes from a story that the South East Coast ambulance staff more than 9000 working days have been lost so far this year because of staff being off work with stress anxiety or depression now the figures were obtained by b.b.c. Radio and they are new figures but on the plus side they do show the percentage of staff off sick these conditions has fallen from 11 to 7 percent in a year so obviously things are happening there obviously a problem has been. Has been recognised and steps are being taken to get to work on that problem and try and solve it Medway Maritime bosses say that so far this year the cost of staff going off sick with stress anxiety and depression has cost the trust more than half a 1000000 pounds over 10 years they estimate it's cost the trust 5700000 quid that's a few nurses isn't it. Survey out today as well as fine a 3rd of G.P.'s across the country have cut their hours in the last year with many blaming the demands of the job the g.m.c. Say the figures also show that more than one in 10 family doctors are taking time off due to stress so have you suffered from stress. Workplace stress yes but it could be stress away from work we're not going to now or ourselves to that kind of conversation how long did it take for you to recognize that there was an issue maybe with yourself or maybe with someone that you love and care about or a friend colleague how long before you realize that they weren't themselves or you weren't yourself you know lethargic maybe perhaps a bit cranky may be going into yourself a little bit being a little bit quieter than normal not sleeping that's a classic sign isn't it not eating very much perhaps having too much to drink on a regular basis give us a call 8756 double one double one is the number to call text it's 813 double 3 How did you learn to cope with stress do you think you'll ever get over it we spoke to well we called him Greg it wasn't his real name in the last 20 minutes or so and he suffered a breakdown 20 years ago and he is still. Kind of he's moved on but he's still living with all of that as well he says he's still taking medication nearly 20 years later and not sure whether or not he'll ever be completely free of it really so how did you combat it how did you overcome stress what are your secrets for overcoming stress as well your own little things that you did Tanya earlier she said take time out take 10 minutes if you're starting to feel it coming take that 10 minutes and take it from there give us about sends a text drop us an e-mail also today the Simpsons 30 years old looking for talking about that and more than 8 years ago Josh Sr fell 35 feet in a freak accident which resulted in him sustaining multiple spinal injuries and an ankle so badly damaged he ended up having a below the knee amputation a few years later and then he had to relearn how to walk. He will be joining us in the studio shortly this morning. Marquis Thomas high status time is b.b.c. Radio Kent Hello Good Morning Express Yourself Stephen for Jules till 12 we're talking about stress in the workplace today more than 1000 working days been lost so far to south east coast ambulance staff off with stress anxiety or depression although they do tell us that those figures have fallen from 117 percent in a year which is a good sign I suppose the fact that there's any percentage of disease a bad thing and Medway Maritime bosses saying the cost of staff going off sick has cost the trust more than half a $1000000.00 pounds this year over 10 years they estimate it's around $5700000.00 pounds and also we're hearing that G.P.'s are cutting back their hours taking time off due to stress let's talk to bed Becky is senior fellow working in policy for the Kings Fund Becky thanks for joining us this morning. We've been talking this morning about stress we've talked to people who have suffered from from stress and the key thing that's coming out from all the conversations that we've had so far is 1st of all from an individual point of view knowing and realizing that you've got a problem yourself the sum that you've got an issue but also that it's recognised and backed up by the people that you're working with and for. Yes I mean I think I went particularly with general practice and we know that the g.p. Working days becoming so intense the workload is so hard that G.P.'s that started to look after themselves by cutting down the number of days that they were it is ironic isn't it that the people that we go to Ditto about. All manner of things obviously but in this instance stress and work related stress anxiety depression what have you that they are then they're suffering the same thing as a result of all of us coming to see them. Yeah I mean it's a complicated issue we know that we need more g. Pays there aren't enough of them for the work that's there at the moment even though we're training more G.P.'s than ever before we're not managing to keep hold of the ones we've got particularly well mostly because the work is intense we also need to recruit more people to work in general practice not just G.P.'s but people like mental health practitioners pharmacists physiotherapist lots of other people around in the primary care team who can help support people less in the what life would G.P.'s but also provide a bed to service to people in their communities. It seems a bit of a worry really that the people that we rely on to look after us you know are going through all of these who looks after the people that look after us when they need looking after Says been some investment in mental health services for general practitioners over the last couple of years new helplines and various other bits to help look after G.P.'s and I think the trend towards G.P.'s recognising that they need to balance their work carefully is an important one we know that so when we talk about G.P.'s what working part time we don't talk about hours g.p. Days are measured in sessions they what 2 sessions would be a day but those sessions are often 6 hour was robbed of them for that they don't work by the hour so whatever time wave what 312 hour days in the week that tired and burnt out and asking then went then to work 5 seems not very healthy either for them or for that patient so the only way to address that is to get more of them and more of the stuff so that we can provide good care to patients but also support the mental health and the physical health as well of the G.P.'s that we have do you think we've got that new trainees are looking towards that kind of work and to thinking about their own health too silly to have interrupted that do you think. That we have a response of the public has a responsibility as well. You know we all want to see a doctor and we all want to see a doctor immediately because. Whatever is wrong with us is obviously the biggest thing on the planet at that particular time and perhaps if you know we were a bit more sensible in taking up G.P.'s and surgeries times perhaps using the telephone a bit more than sitting in a waiting room for for a couple of hours and taking up 10 precious minutes where that g.p. Could be seeing somebody else and then the whole system's kind of un clogs itself a little bit it's a really complicated because what g.p. To really good at is knowing things we don't know it's very hard for patients quite often to with something serious or not however there are lots of things that we can do to look after our house better to take care of ourselves to use pharmacy them pharmacists who are amazing experts in the community can really help us with lots of different my new elements to think about being Ok if it's do you know what the best person to see today isn't the g.p. It's the nurse practitioner or they physiotherapist because actually they'll probably the person who can help people today with your knee pain a whatever it is so to think about the resources we've got the authors know that G.P.'s are there when we need them thinking carefully and helping the people at sizzles they need to help people understand what other options around that some have a look at the slightly wider issue of stress and you know in a couple of conversations on the program this morning I've kind of said that you know 20 years ago say for instance you didn't hear about it so much and obviously then you didn't recognise perhaps that you were suffering from stress because it wasn't talked about the resources weren't there the Internet and things like that to research you know how you were feeling is because I know you work with with young minds don't you and is this something that the is growing and is it getting worse or is it just that we we know more about it and we talk about it more that it seems to be around a lot more. If that makes sense yes so I worked with young ones for about 9 years as a trustee I just I just retired as it were but they I think they would do research things that me and children we are seeing more anxiety depression and stress I think it's a combination of more prevalence but also that we know more about it so people are more able to self report we live in. Pressures of work people needing needing to work we know that lots of other things impact on stress people what living environments poverty poor housing all those things can really contribute to stress also people living with long term health conditions which we know now more prevalent that living for longer with these complex chronic conditions and they go hand in hand with things like I saw it in depression it's very very common to have mental health problems as well alongside your long term physical health problems like diabetes or heart disease so all of that I think is a bit of the perfect storm but means we do need more investment in those kinds of services in Primary Care to support people and do you think the converse and finally Becky because the news is almost upon us but convincing the older generation that perhaps wouldn't have opened up and talked about things like this 203040 years ago you know they are now talking about it and and more aware of mental health and well being than perhaps they would have been before well I think mental health is so important for Africa well being it's great that people are opening up and talking about it more because to live well in your life you need to take care of both your mental and your physical health and I think it's great that we're doing those things but it will only mean that we need to pay attention to how we support people to do that back to good to talk to you thanks so much for sparing the time thank you bad senior fellow at working in policy for the king's Fondo 8756 double one double one the number to call here at b.b.c. Radio Kent we're talking stress this morning work related stress what could be done to. Have you found that you were listen to it work or you just felt that you were banging your head against a brick wall and perhaps the obstacle to solving the problem. Wasn't dealt with in time. Just hanging around give us a call 8756 double one double one the number to ring is p.c. 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Who weighs in at the moment so the am 25 the m 20 are running well however just waiting in a place on the m So yeah all lanes are open on the West Bank carries way junction one there was a crush Yes it was an accident blocking off at least one of those lanes and just looking at the senses it is easing now and she westbound towards junction one not quite back to all those trucks moving quite well from the motorway bridge which is a short Q 3 junction walk on the end soon now if you are on the 856 southbound sandwich by Porsche still from 3 phases round about down to monks way for emergency repairs slow all the way to 67 again out of front because of the explicit Church Lane really slowed summer as well as lots of shopping traffic instead which wells from the Russell lying to green side as well as the I 21 slow down from south bridge the traffic into Sevenoaks isn't doing too badly heading into London just me where was the tunnel and also on the a 2 across Blackheath mainly because the closure of the rather high for tunnel for work so lots of other routes getting very busy in southeast London no problems to report on the trains and ferries would all have more in 20 minutes only one of 4 points us then him down to ness Hyundai and Folkston and the crossing west almighty 6.7 f.m. 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Yeah America's favorite animated family the Simpsons are celebrating 30 years on air this week and we're talking about it in a wee while from now so we're looking for 2 weeks is a bit of a bit of a fan now more than 8 years ago just Sr fell 35 feet in a freak accident which resulted in him sustaining multiple spinal injuries and an ankle so badly damaged the ended up having a below knee amputation a few years later and then he had to really learn how to walk in the air he came in to tell us about the 12 challenges he'd set himself to raise awareness of cancer in Sussex air ambulance and the work that they do and he also wanted to inspire others to question their capabilities and perhaps try new things now one of those challenges was to attempt to climb the distance of Mount Everest on a single rope I'm pleased to say that he managed it and he's here now. Good morning good morning 1st of all for those that weren't listening last time you read why on earth would you try and do something like that. So it was picked up by the air ambulance back in 2010 having sustained some very serious injuries that you can never say still we're very literally saved my life but there's good odds that they did so only they meant that I got some incredibly good health care very early on the time I was completely unaware that the air ambulance our territory they are not funded by the Government funded by. Councils that's it's all for regular giving and crazy events like this and. I wanted to give something back and I have a very long time but I've always been going through stages of recovery and trying to find the right thing in the right time never happened and it feels good Tell us what the other will talk about every. On a rope. Not not pope on a rope but you know Everest in a rope here remind us what some of the other challenges that you've done as well so I did a 5 k. Open water swim having never done an open water swim for a triathlon a couple of obstacle races I did the time I was half marathon back in February that was the 1st one. I voted America. Which was a really great event it was at the course in $76.00 and they had a real community atmosphere to it we had about 3 or 4 people doing it so alive and then we had a few teams and there's a real as well horrific day if I'm honest but you incredible at the same time you know community fear and the way everyone pulled together. Us So I remember to look after so many things so many where is mine my challenge this would be turn the page of the book Paul another glass of wine walk to the kitchen to get the bottle of wine very very important to. Say I think so let's talk about Everest so what was the idea when and where did the inspiration for it come from so the inspiration came around this time last year me and a couple of friends and their families we met for Christmas the Lunts and it was Craig and Alex who joined me for a barrier challenge is over the course of the year and we'd just done a tough mudder and we kind of wanted to push for of a thing maybe do another tough mudder maybe do other things we were looking at the half marathon in February. And myself and Craig had recently read what I had to leave book or said Please we're going to swarm around Britain we're in the last year like he's from a school without getting land and a few years ago this guy you know he's an animal but he climbed Everest on a very single handedly in under 24 hours before and I guess that's never going to happen but maybe as a team we could do something similar and I'm going to be honest it was Craig's idea he denies it. Is very much his idea and it's stuck and so I start looking at the logistics of it looking at how we could make it work and it seemed like a fitting end yeah 12 towns as we'd had no way of comprehending how hard it would be but we knew it was going to be harder than anything. So you did it over the weekend. Well how long did it take you for a start we clocked in at 24 hours and something like 26 minutes and was that just continual climbing and you doing it in a relay or you all doing at the same time. We had one ropes up so mixing it up a little bit there were points where you were doing it i