Shared GP appointments https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-45770998
Daily Mail says these will be used for diabetes annual reviews
Daily Mail says these will be used for diabetes annual reviews
I think it very much depends if the GP thinks what he says is inerrent truth from the mouthpiece of God.It would be an interesting situation if a GP who does not support LC, or at least sticks to the official line, has someone advocating LC in one of these group sessions. How would the GP deal with it? That's assuming they are group sessions rather than lectures.
I think it’s an awful idea. It won’t happen without consent I suspect as there is such a thing as patient confidentiality. I certainly wouldn’t want local people I don’t know knowing my medical details! Haha my family don’t even know. It would be a definite NO from me.
Specially if you are having a rectal probe on the prostate...Any way not for me I think there's no way I'm stripping off in front of a bunch of strangers for a physical examination and thats it.
I'm not sure its so much the NHS as the Royal College of GP's making the suggestion..I think diabetes must be one of the very conditions where the NHS advice has been so out of line with the experience of many diabetics and in fact the eat carbs advice will have caused harm to many and let's be honest early amputations and premature death; it's been that bad. It has improved over the last year or so but I do wonder how a GP would handle a mixed group with some saying the NHS have got it completely wrong. I'm sure the NHS leaders suggesting this group approach have no idea what they may have opened up.
When I first saw this thread my reaction was 'great, save time and cost for the NHS and get a group shared experience/exchange of ideas'.
But I have spent too much time on the forum, haven't I? Where people get to create their own posts, post and discuss in their own time.
What I am quite sure would happen in one of these Groups is that people with various knowledge and experience would sit in a circle while the doctor informed them all about what they should be doing - diet, exercise, cholesterol, footcare, eyetests, etc. No time for tailored personal info, and heaven help the person who raised their head above the parapet (vegan, low carber, binge drinker, chocolate addict, eating disorder...)
The thought of being stuck in room contradicting a doctor who is propounding the Eatwell Plate, in front of 10 T2s, most of whom don't have a clue that there are carbs in bread, would not fill me with joy. And I doubt that same doc would like me encouraging those 10 people to test their blood glucose, count carbs, eat to their (self funded) meters, and ignore orthodox advice on safe glucose levels, carbs not being an essential nutrient, and how 'just one' really does hurt.