And I find this bit troubling.

You know who's going to request them? The healthy middle classes, that's who.

#InverseCareLaw #NHS #NHSCrisis #NHSBacklog

@TCMuffin You can get them privately now, though they're not cheap. Cost me ÂŁ85 to get my autumn booster this year.

#InverseCareLaw

This seems like good news and all part of the steady progress of medical research, although the bit that bothers me is "And if one in four of these come forward".

Why do people have to "come forward"? In a well functioning health system, anastrozole would be proactively offered to those at risk.

Yes, this is progress, but wouldn't it be nice to have progress that was progress for everyone and not primarily for the middle classes?

#anastrozole #InverseCareLaw

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-67337081

Thousands to be offered drug to prevent breast cancer in England

Trials suggest anastrozole could reduce breast cancer cases by almost 50% in post-menopausal women.

BBC News

Equity in Primary Health Care Provision: More than 50 years of the Inverse Care Law

https://harrisroxashealth.com/2023/04/equity-in-primary-health-care-provision-more-than-50-years-of-the-inverse-care-law/

Equity in Primary Health Care Provision: More than 50 years of the Inverse Care Law – Ben Harris-Roxas

Hard to bear: how the way we treat miscarriage acts as a barometer for broader healthcare https://www.croakey.org/hard-to-bear-how-the-way-we-treat-miscarriage-acts-as-a-barometer-for-broader-health-care/
Big thanks @yodaberg for writing about your new book and some takehomes for the health sector
#KindnessMatters
#InverseCareLaw continues
#PIJmatters
#CroakeyREAD
Just wanting to share my ongoing admiration and gratitude for the work of #Welsh #Doctor #TudorHart and his prescient observation that those most in need of #HealthCare are the least likely to receive it. The #InverseCareLaw. And then came #Wilkinson and #Marmot and the #SocialDeterminantsOfHealth #SDOH