# S2 Ep1790: Raising Awareness of the Importance of Emotional Support at the Point of Diagnosis with Anna Tylor Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/rnib-connect-175556/s2-ep1790-raising-awareness-of-the-importance-of-emotional-support-at-the-point-of-diagnosis-with-anna-tylor Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/rnib-connect-175556/s2-ep1790-raising-awareness-of-the-importance-of-emotional-support-at-the-point-of-diagnosis-with-anna-tylor.md Podcast: [RNIB Connect](https://stenobird.com/podcast/rnib-connect-175556) Published: 2026-06-19T11:05:00+00:00 Episode link: https://audioboom.com/posts/8918555 Audio file: https://audioboom.com/posts/8918555.mp3?modified=1781867077&sid=4839823&source=rss Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/rnib-connect-175556/episodes/s2-ep1790-raising-awareness-of-the-importance-of-emotional-support-at-the-point-of-diagnosis-with-anna-tylor Duration seconds: 324 ## Resource On Wednesday 17 June 2026 in the Thames Pavilion at the House of Commons Marsha de Cordova, Labour MP for Battersea hosted an event that brought together people from across the sight loss sector and Eye Care Health service to launch a new training package sponsored by the RNIB, hosted on the Royal College of Ophthalmologist's’ Inspire platform for Clinicians working within Eye health to raise awareness around the importance of emotional support at the point of diagnosis. RNIB Connect Radio’s Toby Davey was there for the launch event and caught up with RNIB Chair of Trustees Anna Tylor. (Image shows the RNIB Connect Radio logo. On a white background ‘RNIB’ written in bold black capital letters and underlined with a bold pink line. Underneath the line: ‘Connect Radio’ is written in black in a smaller font) ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/rnib-connect-175556/episodes/s2-ep1790-raising-awareness-of-the-importance-of-emotional-support-at-the-point-of-diagnosis-with-anna-tylor/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/rnib-connect-175556/s2-ep1790-raising-awareness-of-the-importance-of-emotional-support-at-the-point-of-diagnosis-with-anna-tylor.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.