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 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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