Is Healthcare so expensive because the NHS are using the wrong treatments?
Northern Ireland is facing another round of budget cuts, sparking further protests. This time the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy joined other trade unions outside Stormont, sharing their anger towards the never-ending decrease in healthcare funding. Read articleA proposed £70 million of cuts to patient healthcare services has encountered the usual hostility, but we've picked up on one very interesting point raised.
"Simply cutting services, they say, is a false economy. If patients do not get the care they need, when they need it, their conditions will worsen and require further support at a greater cost to the NHS."
Excess weight is often the major cause, or at least seriously contributes to the severity, of a significant percentage of diseases and conditions requiring costly medical treatment.
It is understandable that budget cuts are often the catalyst for anger and frustration, especially when it relates to potential job losses and the likely consequence of a reduction in the level of patient care. Instead of pouring vast sums of limited money into treatments that have questionable efficacy, why not treat the excess weight properly. It will likely preserve many jobs and can really improve patient care outcomes.
Weight management underpins almost every aspect of a person’s health and the NHS as a whole. Carrying excess weight is the catalyst for many of the main diseases that cause the NHS to haemorrhage money. Type 2 diabetes, cancer and high blood pressure are just three such diseases.
The false economy is not the budget cuts, which could hurt the already poor NHS, but the lack of foresight when it comes to the tremendous benefits coherent weight management options could offer.
"If patients do not get the care they need, when they need it their conditions will worsen"
Care is defined as the provision of what is necessary for the health, welfare, maintenance, and protection of someone or something.
Weight loss NOW, not in the distant future, is the care that is required.
For those individuals, where excess weight and obesity is one of the main contributing factors to their ill health, care through weight management is critical.
The person with type 2 diabetes, or high blood pressure, has high risk factors for heart disease. There is also a high risk of a need for amputation, a high risk of cancers, fertility problems, muscle and joint problems, depressive illness and overall, a poor quality of life. The usual medication given to alleviate the symptoms of diseases and conditions such as these is important, but why not treat the real problem as well?
Weight management could be the care of choice for treating the ailing NHS, potentially saving it a fortune.
Pharmacist Fin McCaul & Prof. David Haslam discuss the benefits to healthcare & NHS.
Type 2 diabetes is reversible. An obese type 2 diabetic requires the obesity to be removed possibly at least as much as taking a diabetic medication. Removing excess weight is enough to force many type 2 diabetics into remission. Weight loss is well documented in its ability to reduce high blood pressure and it now seems to have importance in cancer prevention, possibly even treatment.
The Lipotrim pharmacy weight loss programme is run throughout the UK and Ireland using nutrient complete formula foods that produce fast, reliable and healthy weight loss.
The care, offered by healthcare professionals, means Lipotrim may just be the best thing since sliced bread.
A type 2 diabetic can indeed be forced into remission by the weight loss. In fact the weight loss results using Lipotrim are such that the remission occurs within the first few days of the weight loss phase, resulting in the need for the cessation of most diabetic medication on day 1 of the diet (with GP cooperation).
Read more on treating type 2 diabetes with weight loss, and Lipotrim here....
In essence we should be protesting about why the health services are not geared more towards preventing the issues from worsening rather than treating the symptoms.
The correct care package is not being routinely delivered by the NHS but it doesn’t need to be.
NHS budget cuts may be essential but the simple recognition, and recommendation, of the Lipotrim Pharmacy weight management programme may just be the care the NHS requires.
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