Five Minutes With Your GP: Why Women Can't Get Care (Dr Orlanda Allen)

Wellness & Growth Journeys · Oct 17, 2026 · 1m

You're in your forties. You're exhausted; you can't sleep, and your brain feels foggy. You go to your GP, and you're told to wait, or that it's stress, or you're handed a prescription that doesn't touch it. So you start looking privately, and there's no clear way to tell whether the person you're booking with is trained for what you're actually dealing with.

In this episode of the Wellness & Growth Journeys Podcast, I sit down with Dr Orlanda Allen, a UK medical doctor and senior healthcare leader who has spent her career on the other side of that problem: designing the systems women are…