Back in July, Wes Streeting launched the ‘NHS 10-Year Plan’, rolling out fat-jabs, a new NHS App and soviet-style public ‘restaurants’. Gathering views from the public on this new plan cost the taxpayer an eye-watering amount…
According to a written parliamentary answer, the cost of a consultation to “engage with the public, NHS staff and leadership and stakeholders to inform” the NHS plan was £3,336,483. That went over the original budget of £2.9 million. For that you could:
The taxpayer may have a view on which should be prioritised. UK DOGE recommends costs are cut here…
Speaking on Times Radio, former Home Secretary David Blunkett spoke about overdiagnosis of mental problems:
“Let’s distinguish those who are really severely mentally ill, diagnosed with things that require prolonged medical and diagnostic treatment. My wife and I talk about this a lot, because she’s a retired GP, about the fact that you can be sad without being ill. You can be momentarily depressed because your boyfriend or girlfriend’s just thrown you and you’re not mentally ill. You can even have mild issues, which can be dealt with with the right kind of support, but it doesn’t make you mentally ill. So we’ve got a real task, I think, to get the psychology, if you like, of this over. But there are things where you definitely need medical intervention, and there are other things where you need good friends, you need good connectivity, and you need a job.”