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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HSSS" data-source="post: 2561844" data-attributes="member: 480869">It doesn’t help that the nhs are forced to take a short term view because of the way their funding is dictated by each successive government, constantly moving goal posts.  Rather than invest in true prevention it’s all about symptom firefighting.  Preventative healthcare is almost non existent in any meaningful way. Individualised, whole person care has long gone In favour of ticking boxes and isolating symptoms and conditions.T2 Diabetes is an excellent example of this. They don’t test insulin which shows potential issues years earlier than blood glucose, they don’t utilise even short term testing as an educational tool (image what even a single libre for each newly diagnosed person could achieve), nor address nutritional guidelines. No one in power is dealing with the elephant in the country of highly processed foods or even trying to educate the public about the long term harms being done. Teaching kids to cook or understand their food has been ditched in ever decreasing budgets. Instead they plough billions into fighting a losing battle against the result of ignoring prevention. They’d rather pay for an amputation that a few months of testing strips. And don’t even get me started on training and staffing of drs and nurses in sufficient numbers to meet our needs.Until or unless the nhs funding and management is treated in a ring fenced way by successive governments of whatever persuasion and run with people with medical knowledge having a much stronger input (bring back matron!) then the death spiral it’s currently accelerating down will only increase.</blockquote>

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