{"id":591869,"date":"2025-11-25T01:34:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T01:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/591869\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T01:34:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T01:34:21","slug":"nhs-splurged-money-on-woke-leafleting-but-is-leaving-4-groups-to-mercy-of-cancer-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/591869\/","title":{"rendered":"NHS splurged money on woke leafleting \u2013 but is leaving 4 groups to mercy of cancer | UK | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Prime Minister David Cameron has just opened up about his daignosis<\/a>, and hopefully the doctors have caught it earlier enough. But let me get this straight: in 2025, a man\u2019s chance of surviving prostate cancer<\/a> can still be predicted by the size of his wallet and the quality of his postcode? Wealthy areas are seeing improvements, earlier diagnoses, quicker referrals \u2013 meanwhile, working-class men are essentially told: \u201cGood luck, mate, hope you\u2019ve written a will.\u201d<\/p>\n

How is that even remotely fair? This is healthcare by postcode lottery. Am I supposed to believe that because I come from a working-class background I\u2019m more likely to die purely because the NHS<\/a> can\u2019t be bothered to reach men like me? Apparently, yes.<\/p>\n

The data tells a brutal story. Better-off areas are racing ahead while deprived communities are lagging behind like a knackered old Ford Fiesta on the M1. And the cruel irony? Black men, who are already twice as likely to develop prostate cancer, are heavily represented in these same deprived communities.<\/p>\n

So the group most at risk is also the group least likely to get screenings, least likely to be aware of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing, and least able to access the healthcare that might save their lives.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a bit like watching a fire break out and handing out the extinguishers to the people furthest from the flames.<\/p>\n

Then add in the cultural barriers \u2013 men who don\u2019t want to talk about their health<\/a>, men who think getting checked makes them \u201csoft,\u201d men who leave everything until the pain becomes unbearable. Combine all of that with the NHS forgetting we exist until we hobble into A&E, and you\u2019ve got the perfect recipe<\/a> for avoidable deaths.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the wild part: fixing this isn\u2019t rocket science. We know exactly who is most at risk \u2013 older men, working-class men, Black men, and those with a family history of prostate cancer. You don\u2019t need a billion-pound task force, a panel of consultants, and three years of \u201cexploratory research\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n

You need a list. You need letters. You need screenings. Seriously \u2013 invite the men most likely to die to the front of the queue. It\u2019s not difficult. It\u2019s not controversial. It\u2019s common sense.<\/p>\n

And let\u2019s talk money, because the NHS is always skint until something fashionable pops up. If we can find cash to rewrite leaflets to swap \u201cbreastfeeding\u201d for \u201cchestfeeding\u201d, surely \u2013 SURELY \u2013 we can scrape together some pennies to stop thousands of men dying from a cancer<\/a> we can actually catch early.<\/p>\n

Working-class men deserve the same shot at life as anyone in Chelsea, Surrey or Cheshire. We deserve the same chance at early detection as our wealthier neighbours. And all men deserve a health system that doesn\u2019t treat them as an afterthought simply because they weren\u2019t born in the right postcode.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s time to stop making excuses. Identify the men at highest risk. Bring the screenings to them. Save lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Prime Minister David Cameron has just opened up about his daignosis, and hopefully the doctors have caught…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4316],"tags":[1204,105,4348,186350,6796,211,8427,16,15,186351],"class_list":{"0":"post-591869","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-cancer","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-healthcare","11":"tag-healthcare-inequality","12":"tag-mens-health","13":"tag-nhs","14":"tag-prostate-cancer","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-working-class-men"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115607769324304696","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}