Is the NHS still "Fit for purpose"

www.statista.com/statistics/283241/medical-graduates-per-100-000-inhabitants/ is a speparate link to the med grads which I didn't include before. I assume there is a close correlation to the qualified doctors. 

Interestingly, drug makers don’t think so. 🤣


“ Is Japan as thin as it thinks? Weight-loss drug maker says no.”


www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2024/03/09/lifestyle/obesity-japan-drug-weight-loss/




The entire world needs drugs like Wegovy 🤣 Pharma needs big money from governments around the wolrd.

Not quite sure what you are saying with this. It sounds like you are trying to say that the Japanese population is as prone to obesity*. But the quote you then go on to use if anything demonstrates the opposite of that hypothesis. Despite using a considerably lower BMI benchmark (25 vs 30) the %age is still lower in Japan. What would those %age numbers look like if the same benchmark had been used? 

Regardless, IIRC it is a fact that weight issues in Japan are increasing as diets become more westernised. Which is entirely predicatable: I don't recall anyone claiming in the past that the Asian physiology is less prone to obesity issues, only that lifestyle/diet/culture issues mean that as a population they are less prone. 

IMHO teaching people about healthy diet etc is important rather than drugs - far cheaper in the long run

I live in South Wales valleys, the diet of many up here is terrible, Greggs is regarded as nutritious !, I've been out with group of friends and some will order a meal and either ask for the veg to be left off the plate or just not touch it. I went out with my partner a few weeks ago and they delivered the next tables meals, they ate the meat and potatoes but didn't touch the dish of veg for the table, and then for dessert the 2 adults both had a sharing dessert each, and the kids big bowls of ice cream.

I know that at 5 foot 10 and just over 12 stone I'm a little overweight, yet I'm one of the thinnest people in the village,

I see kids round here that must have 32 or more inch waists and they are at junior school, one mum was complaining this summer that she couldn't get a 40 inch chest jacket to fit her 11 year old as it would hang down to his knees

Anybody that says they don't know about the very basics of a healthy diet has either been hiding under a rock, is lying, or is an idiot.

They know. They don't care.

Pathetic, isn't it?


It's not that he's never been told basics of nutrition, is it?

It's because he's lazy and incompetent.


Not quite.
400g/day is a WHO recommendation, and five is the global standard.
ifava.org/

France, Germany and Norway go with five, as do US/Japan/NZ. Aus is slightly more complex with two fruit plus five veg.

So bang on cue, yesterday - the day before the appointment - I got another call from the hospital to tell me it had been changed yet again, back to a telephone appointment. So we have gone from F2F, to telephone, to F2F, to telephone. In the space of about 2 weeks. Oh, on the same day I also received the letter telling me it had been changed to a telephone appointment. Except that was dated 9/10, and so related to 3 changes back. No doubt in a number of days I'll receive the one advising me it had been changed back to F2F, followed a few days later to one telling me it had been changed to a telephone appointment. And that was for a referral that had dropped into a block hole until I chased it, following a consultant appointment that had been cancelled, then remade, then attempted to be cancelled less than 24 hours beforehand (but which I turned up to anyway because I needed it). 

The doctors/nurses etc. may generally be great, but the systems are broken as hell.