A prodnose survey may bite the dust.
Health experts have hit out after learning that a funding cut could mean the end of a key annual health survey.
The General Lifestyle Survey is carried out every year by the Office for National Statistics on behalf of a number of government departments.
It provides information on a wide variety of topics, including smoking and drinking habits across the UK.
But it has been proposed that NHS funding for the survey should be cut, which means it would end.
Given that these things are no business of anyone other than the individuals involved, this will be no loss. And, given that the knowledge of these things is used to further harry and denormalise those who do drink and smoke, the sooner it goes, the better, frankly. Of course, it could be killed off very simply if those people contacted by the ONS told them to go away and mind their own business.
Good riddance.
Who needs the accuracy and (so-say) impartiality of the ONS when the ‘health charities’ have YouGov in their pocket?
Remember, despite the figures being known, the ONS data was held back when the smoking ban was debated although a YouGov poll biased by its questions and commissioned by CRUK % ASH happened to be available at the right time.
Sir John Cowperthwaite would approve of the dropping of the GLS.
Well, he would if he was still alive 😉