My first real post, and directed at an organisation that is sure to feature here again - NICE. Those lovely folks "The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence". These and the corrupt twats that decide whether the NHS funds particular drug treatments etc.
Today, they have decided that it would be a really good use of doctors time to go trawling through their records of patients to find some that might, one day, maybe, perhaps be marginally more likely to suffer from heart disease etc - and then to contact the patients to offer them drugs (Statins to be precise).
Hm. Fuck off. Was the first thing in my head. Let doctors treat the sick not do research and waste time (paid for by the taxpayer of course) looking for healthy people to harrass. I listened to this idiot wobbling on about how 1.5m people were potentially at risk and could be helped by this campaign, and it will only cost £34m and as a proportion of the drugs budget of over £7bn thats a tiny fraction.
How £34m can be termed tiny I'll never understand. Here's a radical idea. Why not save the £34m until someone actually needs the drug?
Further, apparently Statins only work in 1-2% of cases anyway, so it's £34m to treat 1.5m people, only 15-20 thousand of whom would be helped by it anyway and none of whom have actually asked for drugs.
Stunning. No wonder the NHS is creaking and unable to cope. It has to live with government mismanagement, new priorities every week, no stability and then has cretins like this bunch deliver pathetic ideas of even more ways to put taxpayers money into the hands of the drugs companies by treating people who aren't sick and don't want it. How much of an infringement of liberty?
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