Worrying Costs the NHS

Mon, 22 Mar 2010
A great deal of money is being wasted by the NHS due to us worrying about our supposed ailments. Around £2bn of health care money is being wasted on adults of working age who go to see their GP for a slight ailment.

Around a fifth of all GP appointments are spent on seeing patients for colds, coughs, headaches, back pain and indigestion.

This of course is valuable time which is removed from those patients most in need, such as, people with diabetes .

A group of leading medics and professionals involved in primary care warn that there is going to be a "catastrophic impact" of our dependency on the NHS.

It is crucial that there is more effective teaching by health workers, school classes in health and use of the NHS as part of the National Curriculum are all required to change the attitude and understanding of the general public towards common minor illnesses.

It is suggested that a shift in behaviour could save the NHS £10bn over five years, going some way to meeting the savings of up to £20bn that the Department of Health needs to find by 2014.

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