Highly revered BBC nature documentary presenter Sir David Attenborough (now aged 100) on diet:
"There is clear science behind the benefits of adopting a more plant-based diet when it comes to overall health and longevity."
#science #health #wellbeing #diet #BBC #nature #tv #documentary #plantbased #vegan #UK #aus #nz #longevity #nzhealth
https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/celebs/ive-worked-david-attenborough-years-33911434
Some very important points made here, validated by what I am concerned about watching the life of a GP relative. Exploiting them with work demands requiring hours far beyond the contracted number is widespread abuse of professionals trying to help the population.
- NZ GPs are doing about 46% of their work unpaid - often after hours and on weekends.
- Data shows that having a regular GP makes people 30 percent less likely to need to be admitted to a hospital.
- Data also shows that having a regular GP leads to a 30% reduction in all-cause mortality or death.
- New Zealand is about 2000 GPs short of what Australia has, and Kiwis deserve better. They do not deserve to be downgraded to higher risk by way of pharmacists or "physicians' assistants' acting as if they have training or overall perspective they don't have.
'Broken funding model' and 'anti-GP ideology' causing GPs to leave jobs, doctor says - RNZ News
#nz #nzpol #ActNZ #NZGPCrisis #NZHealthCrisis #NZHealthcare #nzhealth #nzpolitics #politics
So ACT is pushing to mimic UK erosion of quality and safety of NZ healthcare, by squeezing Kiwi pharmacists to do parts of GP jobs.
It may sound palatable to the naive, but pharnacist training is not GP training and in reality pressure incrementally increases to do inappropriate tasks, escalating patient risks.
Why might ACT be pushing for it? Well, ACT peddles anti-immigration sentiment and this deters overseas well-trained GPs from coming to save services in NZ. Getting GPs to NZ is a massive struggle at present.
So here come dubious alternatives ... which also happen to be pathways to ringfencing pharmacy and GP services so they are run mainly/only by big corporates, endlessly escalating obscene profits. Pharmacists who resist performing tasks beyond their training, for legitimate reasons, end up being sidelined from the profession and their contracts and services go to the corporates, profits often leaking to overseas. Smaller practices close, some merging under one corporate roof, meaning many patients have to travel further for services.
Just like with Farage's suggestions in the UK, it is likely that grotesque US corporate profiteers are secretly behind it. Be suspicious of the spin. It is a game of demolition.
a national embarrassment.
"Half of all renal services nationally [in New Zealand] are operating above capacity, with the Auckland renal service operating at 150 percent."
Southland Hospital is losing both of its urologists. This means patients from Southland will need to travel to Dunedin, where there's already a shortage of urologists.
Health NZ is making the usual soothing noises... 'our focus is on patients' while doing nothing practical to sort the problem.
Who remembers Luxon claiming that National's massive cuts to the health service wouldn't affect front line operations? Because urology is as front line as it gets.
https://www.odt.co.nz/southland/urologists-exit-puts-southland-crisis
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also manage my health: what's update password button, precious? #ManageMyHealth #NZpol #nzhealth
"But it was the younger adults (18 to 44 years old) who had the worst scores for cognition, working memory, fatigue, sleep, anxiety, and depression. The scores for middle-aged adults were slightly better across most measures, while older adults generally performed the best.
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“It is not usual or normal ... This is a time when young people should be cognitively at their very best."
this is exactly why it's the EASY operations that are being outsourced to the private sector—to induce public doctors and nurses to go private and to hollow out the public system until it's all husk and no corn
A team generating significant economic and environmental benefits from improving a plant partner of rye grass, a scientist developing a multidisciplinary approach to understanding and managing anxiety and a virologist communicating about pandemic threats have been recognised in the latest Prime Minister’s Science Prizes. A science teacher seeking equitable outcomes for his students and a student using fungi to enhance the filtering of water pollutants by plants were also recognised.
Wow, a ten year bipartisan plan. Sounds sensible. Almost like the Climate Commission.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360629760/revealed-sir-ashley-bloomfields-radical-plan-fix-health-system
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