I'm not sure it sits right with me that healthcare professionals are attaching a (non-clinical) label to patients
FLK
NFN
LONH
UBI
GOK
PRATFO
TTFO
These are the ones I can think of off the top of my head. If it makes you feel better, at least we don't write them in pt notes anymore.
Is UBI the same as a TUBE?
UBI is unexplained beer injury. One of my nurses uses either DFO or PFO, which are drunk, fell over and pissed, fell over. what's TUBE?
I think a large increase in all Benefits would be a good start.People need money to make good choices.
Moving people from benefits to employment is even better, which in turn is good for their mental health, which according to one study, can be as little as a day a week.
with a limited social service budget, I would prefer to use that money for new housing, reduction in tertiary educational fees, and support for working families and mental health support.
what I am suggesting would redistribute money from wealthy boomers to all 🙂 Old age care has to be paid for somehow and our current setup is unsustainable and collapsing and is effectively a two teir system
Wealth inequality is the biggest driver of health inequality. Over the last 40 years wealth inequality has got much worse in the UK as a direct and deliberate result of government policies
Its also driven by poor food and advertising of such
Orwell in road to Wigan Pier has some interesting analysis of this thats as true now as it was then. This is just a short extract of the piece
When you are unemployed, which is to say when you are underfed, harassed, bored, and miserable, you don’t want to eat dull wholesome food. You want something a little bit ‘tasty’. There is always some cheaply pleasant thing to tempt you. Let’s have three pennorth of chips! Run out and buy us a twopenny ice-cream! Put the kettle on and we’ll all have a nice cup of tea! That is how your mind works when you are at the P.A.C. level. White bread-and-marg and sugared tea don’t nourish you to any extent, but they are nicer (at least most people think so) than brown bread-and-dripping and cold water. Unemployment is an endless misery that has got to be constantly palliated, and especially with tea, the English-man’s opium. A cup of tea or even an aspirin is much better as a temporary stimulant than a crust of brown bread.
Predictable reaction entirely based middle class alienation and ignorance.This place never lets me down.
Perhaps we could return to a golden age of twopenny ice-cream, three pennorth of chips and sugared tea instead of Spice, Pub Coke and crates of Stella? 😀
Japan are way further down this path. Much less immigration (just postpones the issue), higher percentage of the population over 65 (30%). I think they extended retirement age and require people to take out insurance for care in old age.
One day a whole lot of people will stand back from these years and say yes the economic model that we pretended was a neutral system of markets just doing their thing - is nothing of the sort and has yielded the most awful societal, health and inequalities.
And one day we might have government that puts public outcomes above all the concentration of wealth to a few people and actually make stuff better for the rest of us.
One day.
^Amen.
