... Just been watching it on I-player. Having been really slim all my life I'm now about 2 stone bigger than I should be at 47. Watching this programme has made me feel really motivated to lose weight - starting to feel I have a public duty to the NHS not to live an unhealthy lifestyle. Actually the whole programme worried me. It really made me realise how the NHS won 't cope with our increasing levels of obesity as the population ages...
Did anyone else watch this programme with a growing sense of worry about the future of healthcare in the UK?
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Minifingers · 14/05/2013 22:42
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14/05/2013 22:53
Well some of it will go to the shareholders of the private companies which take over various services within the NHS. But even without actual cuts, the NHS will hugely struggle to meet our future health needs if we carry on getting fatter and fatter as a nation. According to the programme the West Midlands has the fattest population in Europe. So fat that they've had to put severe restrictions on the criteria for weight loss surgery. If they didn't apparently so many people would qualify for it that it would clean out NHS budgets for the entire region! 
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