内容摘要："Those who can afford these antibiotics often overuse them; those who can't, don't get them at all," says Dr Ghafur. "We need a system that ensures access for the poor and prevents misuse by the well-to-do."

"Those who can afford these antibiotics often overuse them; those who can't, don't get them at all," says Dr Ghafur. "We need a system that ensures access for the poor and prevents misuse by the well-to-do."

She said she enjoyed seeing many of her audiences come along to see her at events "because they read my books as children"."The children are still keen but it's the mums that get really excited! It's like a sort of farewell tour that hopefully will go on."

Despite having written more than 100 books, Dame Jacqueline said she still felt anxious when writing."Always about halfway through a book, even now, you think 'I've got the hang of this with all these books that I've written', but I get that terrible doubt and worry about it and and it's just something you learn. Work through it, get to the end."One habit that must help is that she writes in her pyjamas in bed, once she's fed the cat and let the dogs out first thing in the morning.

"That's the magic time, and it just works for me. Apparently Michael Morpurgo does exactly the same!"But it wasn't always so easy to pick and choose her times to write.

Dame Jacqueline said: "I was idiotic enough to be married at 19 and had a child at 21.

"My husband wasn't a terrible man in the slightest but it was an age [the 1960s] when men went out and did, and women did everything else.""AI support can be a helpful first step, but it's not a substitute for professional care," agrees Mr Tench.

And the public are largely unconvinced. A YouGov survey found just 12% of the public think AI chatbots would make a good therapist.But with the right safeguards, some feel chatbots could be a useful stopgap in an overloaded mental health system.

John, who has an anxiety disorder, says he has been on the waitlist for a human therapist for nine months. He has been using Wysa two or three times a week."There is not a lot of help out there at the moment, so you clutch at straws."