Oh dear, I know this is from the Daily Mail but they are running a campaign to have FLS clinics in more hospitals, however I have just seen this.
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Looks like we may have to wait a bit longer than we expected.
Dare I say that his comments reflect well on the ROS for speaking out for us and putting enough pressure on this and the previous Health Secretary for this much needed service.
Good for the ROS ,lobbying is part of government process !!!! so ROS are doing a great job ,lobbying on our behalf and for the future. They are not offenders they are advocates for us .thanks for highlighting this I hadn't seen it .
cannot post a acceptable word here to describe this shocking performance from Wes Streeting. Apart from lost lives we want to prevent people breaking bones. He obviously hasn’t done the maths of how much the NHS would save by helping people BEFORE they break a bone. I’m another who only discovered I had osteoporosis AFTER fracturing my back. Every day I’m annoyed I did not get a routine DEXA scan.
Thank you for sharing this, Fruitandnutcase . As others have said, the ROS and other health-focused groups have an important advocacy role. Well done to the ROS for their work on making FLS clinics more widely available.
There is far too little focus in the NHS on prevention of sickness. It seems to be a National Sickness Service, rather than a National Health Service.At risk of making myself look like some sort of crazed conspiracy theorist, I cannot help but think that there's no money to be made from keeping people fit and well. Who would buy the drugs if nobody needed them? Why would we need so many hospitals and doctors if the vast majority of us were never ill?
It pays, in many ways, to allow people to become sick because then they need the services of doctors and pharmaceutical companies - and that generates revenue.
I personally feel that one of the most urgent and pressing health problems today is that of obesity/malnutrition/T2diabetes. These things are in large part due to the types of food we eat - and the problem is global. Governments need to restrict the availability of cheap, ultraprocessed foods and make real food more accessible. That is the number one issue that should be up for discussion, in my opinion.
People have a choice on what food they eat and what they feed their children. I have been in relatives houses where I got out and buy and cook my own food. I live in a rural area and we cannot get fast food and have to do our shopping ourselves. We make sure we both have good food (husband has had cancer) and mostly fresh food. We also live on a tight budget and fresh food is cheaper. Education at an early age on what food is good for you, making sure school dinners are healthy (they certainly are not currently), removing machines full of trash food and drinks from hospitals and even some schools is a good start. I can think of other ways to separate trash food into areas only accessible to adults but that is going too far down the road for most people. As an aside, I was not surprised when I was diagnosed with osteoporosis as it runs in the female side of our family, but the generation above mine had no drugs. I am 78 and wonder how the NHS are going to be able to function with an aging population and haemorrhaging staff each year as many go abroad or just get other less stressful jobs. The last government laid off 2,000 GP's, WHY?
Wes Streeting, what an arrogant useless Health Secretary. Here is a question for him, " have you found out how much people with Osteoporosis cost the NHS per annum with broken bones when a DEXA scan at a younger age would diagnose people at risk" NO of course he hasnt. He isnt bothered about data just making himself look good to the "people" who do not understand Osteoporosis until its too late. Ask him to live for a week with one of the thousands and thousands of sufferers in horrendous constant pain. How dare he slag off a Charity whose Patron is our Queen. Perhaps a letter of apology to the Queen would be his first task.......no of course he wont as he is arrogant and thinks he knows better than anyone else.Well done to the Daily Mail for bringing his arrogancy to the fore. Perhaps the Guardian could now take up the fight, ha ha
This is all great publicity for FLSs, most will be completely unaware of the concept, like my GP. So this row is getting the word out.
He says he is still committed to rolling them out by 2030, by which time he will be out of office.
Unfortunately NICE says there is no point in screening - which seems to me like saying they don't think the drugs work. I think people would make major lifestyle changes even if they refused drugs.
Wes is not all bad. He opposed the State Killing Bill on the grounds that palliative care services aren't good enough. Has to be right.
But his remarks on FLS are politically inept. They chime with removing Winter Fuel Allowance as placing Labour as a party with contempt for the elderly, the elderly poor and sick in particular.
This is a great opportunity which the ROS PR department should be exploiting.
Hi all,
We really appreciate that this topic is so important to our community so we just wanted to drop into the thread and share our statement about this: theros.org.uk/latest-news/s...
Wishing you all the very best,
Lulu
ROS Moderator
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