I do worry about the lack of accountability with third party contracts. They are exempt from the Freedom of Information Act for commercial reasons. If something goes wrong with a procedure there would be a lack of transparency; and patients may find it harder to gain redress.
Taxpayer subsidy. The last link sadly also reminded me of Emma Nicholson's husband.
That's not a lot of use then. You're right to be concerned. I'm happy with the local optician who does mine and I've taken note of the posters they have in the hospital Diabetes Centre explaining retinopathy.
It is almost impossible to give advice to anyone especially your child and especially is she's preggers. Hopefully and deep down she will be absorbing your wisdom and experience but this may not be evident for many years. If she does have gestational diabetes then this in itself increases the chances that her child will be fat and/or diabetic so its worth banging on about it if you're brave enough!My eldest & I had a row about this fat fight, she's 25 and pregnant and is piling on weight from a fast food diet, I brought her up from the age of 5 and has seen enough disabling hypos over the years to make her want to avoid t2, the row started as she was moaning she has to have a fasting blood test looking for gestational diabetes, obviously I mentioned her diet and pointed out its difference to the lean food she was raised on.
That went down like a ton of bricks
And she slammed her non diet coke down in disgust....
Yes in one way you're absolutely right because FOI only applies to public authorities. But if a private provider, under an NHS contract, does a procedure on you that goes wrong, you would just do what you normally do - make a request under FOI to the NHS. They then have to obtain all your records, including any held by a private company, because that will form part of your NHS record. They are fully accountable for what they do, and due diligence before awarding any contract is done to ensure quality. Plus any NHS provider remains subject to CQC just as the NHS is.
That is quite common, I had it, then I didn't, now I do again. The person who did the retinopathy scan told me that the cameras and high resolution monitors have improved so much that they now can see such slight abberations that some background retinopathy is a matter of opinion. In any case at that level it is harmless.
I did unrestricted low carb all through my first pregnancy - I put on hardly any weight, was swimming and cycling up to a few weeks before the birth, which was fast and trouble free and I recovered so quickly the nurses were amazed, went home a day before all the other mothers who delivered that day, my son was the largest on the ward, and was always in the top ten percentile, the midwife remarked on how strong and alert he was, everyone said how pretty he was with the blonde curls and brown eyes, he hit all the way marks early, was always tallest in the class, always energetic and up to something. He is about a foot taller than me, eight inches taller than his father, slender, muscular and he only has to grin at his wife mischievously for her to be pregnant again - they have four so far. They had to change the date of the wedding so the first one would be legitimate, and the second one was due the same week as her finals.My eldest & I had a row about this fat fight, she's 25 and pregnant and is piling on weight from a fast food diet, I brought her up from the age of 5 and has seen enough disabling hypos over the years to make her want to avoid t2, the row started as she was moaning she has to have a fasting blood test looking for gestational diabetes, obviously I mentioned her diet and pointed out its difference to the lean food she was raised on.
That went down like a ton of bricks
And she slammed her non diet coke down in disgust....
That was not my understanding of the role of Accountable Care Organisations, so I hope I'm wrong; and the commercial contracts will still be secret, so I don't see how we can have any guarantees.
HahaI won't even use Specsavers for my normal eye sight tests.
Why did you have to go to Specsavers or have a private scan when there is a Northamptonshire NHS eye screening service?
