Silent crisis of soaring excess deaths in Britain is only tip of the iceberg

Re:Silent crisis of soaring excess deaths in Britain is only... by ZeroGravitas on Sunday August 21, 2022 @08:57AM (#32539690)

Maybe I'm just a nerd, but this bit:

> Getting a GP to see you in person is now quite difficult (they want to do everything via phone)

Doesn't really strike me as a bad thing in itself.

Once you get past the front line, things get pretty specialist and a general move to Telemedicine is probably a good thing, and is presumably happening all around the world for all sorts of reasons. People even do telesurgery now.

And yeah, in a world where someone is continually lying about something good and useful, you do need to choose your words carefully to not help spread their lies. That's not anyone's fault but the liars though.

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Re:Silent crisis of soaring excess deaths in Britain is only... by odiroot on Sunday August 21, 2022 @12:28PM (#32541717)

Preventive care is absolutely the most important to keep the society healthy and moving forward.

Currently people just give up on contacting their surgeries, letting their symptoms develop into something potentially more dangerous. Then they end up at A&E, overloading the hospitals.

Maybe it's not so bad in the 3 biggest cities (possibly due competing private services), but at smaller cities and towns, it's impossible to see your GP. I see people complaining about it in pretty much every media.

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Re:Silent crisis of soaring excess deaths in Britain is only... by ZeroGravitas on Sunday August 21, 2022 @12:44PM (#32541916)

The NHS spends a lot of money trying to get people to use the right level of care, like pharmacists, info on the web https://111.nhs.uk/ and by phone.

I don't particularly see a face-to-face visit to a GP when you think you have an issue as preventitive, but if it was, I still don't see how telemedecine wouldn't be a partial solution to that problem, not make it worse.

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Re:Silent crisis of soaring excess deaths in Britain is only... by ogogmad on Sunday August 21, 2022 @01:02PM (#32542109)

My mother only found out she had cancer when she saw a GP for an unrelated condition.

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Re:Silent crisis of soaring excess deaths in Britain is only... by tremon on Sunday August 21, 2022 @09:18AM (#32539864)

Once you get past the front line, things get pretty specialist

But isn't a GP (general practicioner) exactly the front line of which you speak?

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Re:Silent crisis of soaring excess deaths in Britain is only... by pyrophane on Sunday August 21, 2022 @10:10AM (#32540373)

Right. I think the argument being made here is that if the job of the GP is just to route you to the appropriate specialist, well, they can do that virtually.

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