Soon Mogg will be offering the poors a warm bed in his work houses and the circle will be complete.
I wish I could get prescribed money for heating lmao. I have fibromyalgia so I can’t work. I am extremely sensitive to the cold and it makes my chronic widespread musculoskeletal pain and chronic fatigue extremely worse. It’s only November and I can already barely move my hands in my own bedroom I’m so cold, even with heated gloves on. I have to spend most of my time in bed just to stay warm. Hope our politicians are enjoying their nice warm houses while they shaft the rest of us.
You know we’re fucked when doctors are ‘prescribing’ heating.
I did a massive eye roll at this headline, muttered no one pays my bill then read the ladies story. The bit about being able to warm her kids Christmas pjs on the radiator broke through to me.
The headline shouldn’t be “NHS pays electricity bill” but “NHS proactively tackles mental health issues and quality of life improvements”.
Probably cost less to heat the house than treat the negative outcomes for her and her family as well so the NHS are quids in.
Well done whoever thought of this.
Welcome to what’s supposedly one of the richest countries in the world by GDP…doctors having to prescribe heating to people.
Next up, doctors prescribing food.
This is one of the best initiatives coming out of this current energy affordability crisis – providing actual tangible support to those who need it. Obviously it should not be happening in an ideal world, but it’s much better than any of the gov energy schemes, eg EBSS & EPG.
Surely a better way to support people than this?
Why not prescribe food as well? Could argue a bad diet makes people ill
Any areas where there are underserved communities and areas of high social deprivation this could work but I suspect here will be a funding limit.
It’s also likely that this is going to work if the practice or PCN has social prescribers.
Social prescribers can be great in theory bog there are enough they can help a GP actually do what a GP needs to do..be a doctor.
I feel that there’s going to need to be some pretty strong criteria attached to this in order for it not to be abused. It may go down the same route as food bank vouchers
“Health improved by not living in crushing poverty” is hardly a surprising finding for a study.
I find it very weird that we call this social prescribing and use the language of medicine to justify it, when really it’s just a basic anti-poverty measure.
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Soon Mogg will be offering the poors a warm bed in his work houses and the circle will be complete.
I wish I could get prescribed money for heating lmao. I have fibromyalgia so I can’t work. I am extremely sensitive to the cold and it makes my chronic widespread musculoskeletal pain and chronic fatigue extremely worse. It’s only November and I can already barely move my hands in my own bedroom I’m so cold, even with heated gloves on. I have to spend most of my time in bed just to stay warm. Hope our politicians are enjoying their nice warm houses while they shaft the rest of us.
You know we’re fucked when doctors are ‘prescribing’ heating.
I did a massive eye roll at this headline, muttered no one pays my bill then read the ladies story. The bit about being able to warm her kids Christmas pjs on the radiator broke through to me.
The headline shouldn’t be “NHS pays electricity bill” but “NHS proactively tackles mental health issues and quality of life improvements”.
Probably cost less to heat the house than treat the negative outcomes for her and her family as well so the NHS are quids in.
Well done whoever thought of this.
Welcome to what’s supposedly one of the richest countries in the world by GDP…doctors having to prescribe heating to people.
Next up, doctors prescribing food.
This is one of the best initiatives coming out of this current energy affordability crisis – providing actual tangible support to those who need it. Obviously it should not be happening in an ideal world, but it’s much better than any of the gov energy schemes, eg EBSS & EPG.
Surely a better way to support people than this?
Why not prescribe food as well? Could argue a bad diet makes people ill
Any areas where there are underserved communities and areas of high social deprivation this could work but I suspect here will be a funding limit.
It’s also likely that this is going to work if the practice or PCN has social prescribers.
Social prescribers can be great in theory bog there are enough they can help a GP actually do what a GP needs to do..be a doctor.
I feel that there’s going to need to be some pretty strong criteria attached to this in order for it not to be abused. It may go down the same route as food bank vouchers
“Health improved by not living in crushing poverty” is hardly a surprising finding for a study.
I find it very weird that we call this social prescribing and use the language of medicine to justify it, when really it’s just a basic anti-poverty measure.