People will use NHS 2000 times

What a load of old cobblers!

Quote - "The average person is in contact with the health service once a fortnight (2,153 times up to the age of 80), while collecting an estimated 1,330 prescriptions.

They also make 31 visits to Accident & Emergency and go on 12 ambulance journeys."

Who on earth conducted this crackpot study? Bet it cost the taxpayer a few hundred thousand though

It's average vs typical.

I'm betting, for instance, that people who require frequent treatments or therapies (eg dialysis 3 times a week, or chemotherapy) have each individual visit listed as a separate contact, and that if they get NHS transport (eg cancer patient transferred by non-emergency ambulance from hospice to therapy unit) that's an extra contact for each trip as well.

There'll be the supervised methadone programs in there as well (drugs consumed on-site only) which are daily or even twice-daily contacts.

I'm also betting that things like going into A&E counts as at least 100 separate contacts - a contact with the ambulance service, a contact with the admissions unit, a contact with the triage nurses, a contact with the ward nurses, a contact with a doctor, a contact with the X-ray unit, another contact with a doctor, a contact with the surgery team, a contact with the anaesthesiologists, a contact with the recovery room...

Well I have used my quota up damn kidney stones.

Maybe its all that Veg!

True, I suppose 90% of the population averaged over 10% of high users.


Every cloud!! Onto NHS direct right now.


didn't know sprouts had stones in them?

I am like an otter.
I swallow stones for ballast hence the mid riff its not fat just big pebbles.