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Originally Posted by Taf
I reckon it's all spin... Brown loves to announce "new" money that has been around for years, and this time he is trying it on again. Most chronic illnesses including diabetes allow for free meds and equipment already... let's hope this extends to asthma, COPD, etc.
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Not all apparently, charity groups have been going on about these "12%" who for one reason or another are not covered. The Times had a mention that just over 50% of people with cancer at ages 18 to 35 have to pay some sort of fee.
The other thing, which was not mentioned in his speech, is allowing people to buy the expensive, newer, drugs.
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Originally Posted by greencreeper
I don't know why people use GPs anymore. You can Google your condition and gain accurate, in-depth information - more than anything your GP can provide. If you want to see a doctor, there are walk-in centres where you can be seen far quicker (20 minutes versus up to two weeks) than visiting your GP. It's not like the family doctor exists anymore - just a different locum from one week to the next. Casualty is there for acute problems and injuries. Shut the GP surgeries. Build more walk-in centres. The odd poly-clinic so that some secondary and specialist care can be provided more readily. Put the saved cash into providing better NHS services, including free prescriptions for all.
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People are not experts in self-diagnoses, it's a very bad idea. A lot of these sites are actually poor and they don't come with the required information to judge if something is a condition or just has similar symptoms, it would led to a nation of hypochondriacs who are convinced they have a serious illness.
For example MS is a disease which encompasses a wide range of symptoms which most of the time are simply normal, and only rarely are indications of something more serious. Having 1000's of people lining up to take tests for it would increase pressure on the NHS.
The internet is a poor substitute for a medically trained professional. A lot of people make this mistake of presuming they know better than the experts hence all the health advice in the Daily Mail and others.