@AlanStout19 On Friday I had to advise a patient who might be having a heart attack to get themselves to hospital as ambulance services could not be guaranteed to deliver. This is not an uncommon occurrence.
@AndSobriety@TomblackBlack While exercise is important you’ll never outrun a bad diet. Low-carb, keto, intermittent fasting, healthy fats and protein. Invert the healthy food pyramid. Five a day perfect strategy for gaining weight.
@smcg600 When you spend 5.4% of the healthcare budget on primary care it’s amazing it delivers so much. Could those with a bigger share match that performance? The price tag for ‘failed’ practices so-managed suggests not
@ManCityHelp is the Luton game confirmed for Sat 13th. Other games moved for TV on that date and it shouldn’t be affected by CL games before and after?
In the UK 1 million have undiagnosed diabetes now.
That's on top of the 4.3million already diagnosed.
Plus 5 million are approaching prediabetes.
The bit that makes me angry?
1️⃣ The government / health institutes act like it's normal to develop diabetes.
2️⃣ Standard treatment of diabetes is not working. The stats are awful.
I'm sorry but it's not working. Why keep doing more of the same and expect different results?
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I am increasingly hearing rhetoric from politicians and NHS managers about the need to remove “simpler patients” from doctors; thereby allowing them to focus on “complex patients”. But for doctors, seeing an unending stream of complex patients is professionally very challenging.
Interesting detail tucked in the disaster that was Babylon.
Premised on well people using the app rarely. Instead, instant access to a GP drove overuse by the worried well.
Evidence of supply-induced demand making a service financially unviable.