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That submission may be useful beyond UK borders for same reasons.

 

What do you think about an S4ME submission, @Jonathan Edwards?

 

Perhaps an S4ME submission ?

 

Crossposted with @Sasha
Given stakeholder role to NICE guideline , it may offer an opportunity to hone arguments and widen awareness?

 

Perhaps we could use PACE to widen the attack and include MUS by highlighting the weak standards of "proof" required of psychiatrists and psychologists.

 

It looks a bit like submitting a case for abolishing gold plated lifts to Mr Trump to me.

This needs a different angle I think.
Mr Horton is probably not that well disposed to our community.

 

NHS England to stop 'ineffective' treatments

No mention of GET or CBT.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-44665560

 

"to be offered to far fewer patients" just means that it will be offered to none. It will be an effective ban.

The same thing happened when the NHS decided that T3 should be taken off patients because it cost so much. The NHS didn't ban it, but in effect that is what happened. Many patients (mostly women) have had their T3 taken away and have lost their jobs and become bedridden. The smart ones and the brave ones find out they can buy it online or they bankrupt themselves paying for private prescriptions. They are told by doctors "my hands are tied, the CCG / the NHS has banned it". It's not true - but it might as well be.

 

What I felt was important for us was the statement that if there was only a treatment with significant harms associated with it, it was better to do nothing. We are continually bombarded with CBT and GET having to be continued because otherwise there would be no treatments available.

 

same old same cost cutting in the name of efficiency .what does it matter if tens of thousands of patients are now denied procedures that would benefit them . as we know not all treatments will benefit all patients so picking out samples of patients who saw no benefit will be easy but then using these sample cases to deny the treatment to others is just plain wrong . evidential bias can always find ways to cut costs .

 

Routine DNA tests will put NHS at the ‘forefront of medicine’

https://amp.theguardian.com/science...e-dna-tests-precision-cancer-tumour-screening

 

So the NHS, an organisation with such outdated IT infrastructure that it can't even keep it's machines patched to block drive by ransomware, where critical parts of it's diagnostic lineup won't run on anything newer than window xp, where records are routinely either lost or have to be transferred on paper between departments/consultants because their internal e-coms is so unreliable, these are the people who are going to lead the world in genomic medicine? A field which will either need IT that works or result in mass deforestation globally.

Well.........they do say laughter is the best medicine, although I am not sure they meant maniacal or hollow laughter, and I'm fairly sure that calculation is heavily influenced by the price.

 

when the NHS becomes the first health service in the world to routinely offer genomic medicine

So if I am having trouble with a thrombosed pile (not to be recommended) I will be offered to have my DNA sequenced and put on a waiting list to see a proctologist in the spring?

 

You mean something like this could happen? 'Somewhere between the analysis and the printed copy we have been attacked by gremlins. Sadly, the passage of time, theft of a computer containing the original draft, and the fact that none of us can find the proofs anymore, mean that we have no idea when this happened.'

 

How long will it be before the DNA data is passed to (or sold to) insurance companies with sufficient info attached to make it identifiable?

And when we all have to start paying for insurance, how many people will be refused because of dodgy genetics which give them a higher risk of, say, a brain tumour?

 

the guardian full of lovely sound bites but your not meant to actually think about newspeak just be positive and every thing will be great .