{"id":4836,"date":"2014-11-08T10:03:15","date_gmt":"2014-11-07T21:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willandrewsdesign.com\/?p=4836"},"modified":"2014-11-10T14:29:49","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T01:29:49","slug":"uk-health-system-gets-heavy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/?p=4836","title":{"rendered":"UK health system gets heavy"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2021\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2021\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2021 \" title=\"Not the Future!\" alt=\"Retro-Futurism City\" src=\"http:\/\/willandrewsdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Retro-Futurism-City.jpg\" width=\"750\" height=\"579\" srcset=\"http:\/\/willandrewsdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Retro-Futurism-City.jpg 750w, http:\/\/willandrewsdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Retro-Futurism-City-150x115.jpg 150w, http:\/\/willandrewsdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Retro-Futurism-City-300x231.jpg 300w, http:\/\/willandrewsdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Retro-Futurism-City-720x555.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2021\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Planning for sedentary transport imposes unsustainable costs!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>An <a title=\"Irish Times, 2014 Nov 5th\" href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/news\/world\/uk\/rising-nhs-costs-could-leave-obese-patients-with-bitter-pill-to-swallow-1.1991559\" target=\"_blank\">Irish newspaper cites<\/a> the consideration of new policies in parts of the UK health system which may require (rather than recommend) obese patients to lose weight before some procedures.<\/p>\n<p>A Clinical Commissioning Group in Devon, UK, has reportedly warned in a letter of late October that overweight patients \u201care a greater surgical risk\u201d and have worse results. \u00a0Patients who are morbidly obese \u201cwill not be funded\u201d&#8217; for certain procedures, according to the letter&#8217;s author, the Commissioning Group&#8217;s Managing Director, John Finn. \u00a0These allegedly include the very common hip and knee operations.<\/p>\n<p>Current* UK government policy requires a cut of UK\u00a320 billion in its National Health Service spending.<\/p>\n<p>More disquieting evidence that the costs of sedentary lifestyles and car-dependent urban planning cannot be sustained.<\/p>\n<p>*2014- November<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Irish newspaper cites the consideration of new policies in parts of the UK health system which may require (rather than recommend) obese patients to lose weight before some procedures. A Clinical Commissioning Group in Devon, UK, has reportedly warned in a letter of late October that overweight patients \u201care a greater surgical risk\u201d and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4836"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4836"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4844,"href":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4836\/revisions\/4844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}