What? Summoned?
Millions of people will be summoned for annual weigh-ins at GP surgeries under NHS guidelines to tackle obesity. Everyone with common conditions including arthritis, heart failure and diabetes will be weighed and measured under a proposal from Nice, the health watchdog.
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— Good Morning Britain (@GMB) March 18, 2025
Off you fuck. I had a call from the GP practice recently wanting me to take statins. It was a repeat of the last time with an even more emphatic ‘no.’ The only reason the buggers got to check my blood was because they were withholding my prescription until I submitted. My long-term plan is to increase my exercise regime to come off the blood pressure tablets; then they won’t have that hold over me.
Don’t forget the endless exhortations to pop in and have jabs you’ve never heard of and, of course, the ones you have heard of and know all about.
This the same NHS where you can’t get an appointment, even if you get in the phone queue at 8AM, or are GPs different? To where would people be summoned, and who would weigh them? Are they only doing this for the Indigenous Britons, or are the newly-arrived Vibrancy subject to it as well? This all sounds quite Orwellian – your response is apt.
Exactly so.
There are always staff at the GPs if there’s a government bonus to be had.
Not if you might actually, God forbid, need to see a Doctor.
My local GP uses every pay rise to fund more locums. No doctor there now works longer than a two day week. The surgery, meanwhile, is deserted. The town seethes with silent anger. I recently had to get a form signed. It only needed a signature, and I dropped it off with a stamped envelope (the NHS only uses email if it suits them). The receptionist looked at it as though I’d handed her a bomb. She then said it would take 4 weeks for the GP to sign it.
It actually took just under 8 weeks.
To say that the NHS is broken, and that money IS NOT the answer just seems so obvious at this point that only a politician wouldn’t see it.
They would do well to start with their own staff. The collective noun for a group of nurses is POD.
Search “nice guideline NG246” for the actual details of aktion T4.
If you want the generous benefits that your betters will graciously provide, particularly as you enter the showers, sorry golden years, this will highlight the perfectly reasonable steps required.
It is very generous in allowance made for cultural sensitivities and all aspects of neurodiversity and such considerations will be equitably applied to all.
Diabetics are weighed at least once a year as part of their treatment. Type two diabetes can be a horrible debilitating condition or alternatively hardly a condition at all, dependant on how well it is managed. Regular monitoring and reacting to any changes is currently how it is managed and, for me at least, it works very well. Of course I’m very pro-active and make sure that I exercise and keep my weight down anyway.
“There are always staff at the GPs if there’s a government bonus to be had.”
Perverse incentives not having the desired effect but instead the effect that anyone with half a brain could have easily predicted?
On the other hand if the Government handing out taxpayers’ money to keep GPs ‘on side’ was the aim, then the ‘incentive’ is not perverse. It is modern day patronage for the favoured supporters.
Spot on! And they’ll be incentivised to collect these weight sessions so will nag us all remorselessly! I’m glad I got rid of the landline!
Never get ill. Never go to hospital. That is where the sick people are!
…as well as all those patients.