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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DavidGrahamJones" data-source="post: 1416893" data-attributes="member: 245335">A small piece from the BBC article:The cost varies, but it is thought to cost the UK's NHS about £2,000 per year per patient where it is already being given to people who do not respond to statins.This appears immediately after some professor says it will not replace statins, people will still take them. Confused me, why are they giving statins to people who do not respond to them.Edit: I noticed JohnEGreen's comment about availability after I wrote the next paragraph.More importantly, does anyone think that the poor old NHS will spend £40 a week just to lower people's cholesterol? Something that arguably a change of lifestyle could change (in most cases). This of course overlooks the whole question of how high or low should total cholesterol be. I'm amazed at the way the NHS operates, happy to spend £2,000 a year, so an ongoing cost, to bring cholesterol down but someone needing a hernia fixed (private cost £2,700 - BMI, Nuffield Health and Ramsay Health) has to have emergency funding and even then my old mate Mick is still waiting, it seems the private cost is for an op using an epidural, I suppose it keeps the cost down, but he's been told he has to have a general because of the seriousness of his hernia and the fact he might lose a testicle.</blockquote>

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