This is an article out the other day - People use NHS '2,000 times each' | News
The full article doesn
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... VirtuallyMary
Well I have used my quota up damn kidney stones. Stavros
Maybe its all that Veg!
True, I suppose 90% of the population averaged over 10% of high users. “There'll be the supervised methadone programs in there as well (drugs consumed on-site only) which are daily or even twice-daily contacts...” 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. Stavros |
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