Nannying GP surgeries text patients urging them to take care in the heat: Alerts inform public 'it's hot' and that they should 'drink plenty of water' and 'stay out of the sun'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/arti ... -heat.html
Dishing out sound advice on avoiding heat-related illnesses is nannying
...Officials said the alerts were in response to many younger patients presenting at hospitals with issues such as heatstroke, asthma and allergies, exacerbated by the heatwave.
But the decision was branded 'nannying' and a waste of valuable resources when many patients struggle to get GP appointments.
Greg Smith, Tory MP for Buckingham, said: 'My constituents want to be able to see a GP quickly when they need one, to get rapid care if they need a hospital referral or treatment and to know the best new medical technology and drugs are being procured.
'What they don't want, don't need and will be totally bemused by is valuable resources – their taxes – being wasted on nannying text messages that state the bloody obvious.'...
Well, Greg Smith, 1) if GP appointments are so difficult to obtain then advice on how to not need an appointment is probably a Good Thing. 2) if people
are turning up at A&E with heat-related ailments then perhaps the advice isn't quite so "bloody obvious" as you seem to think it is. 3) maybe if your Party hadn't spent the last 13 years wasting taxpayers' money GP appointments might have been a little easier to come by.
Once again, the Fail reveals what cunts they and their Tory friends are.
It might only be the Imperial Service Medal, but I've got a gong. What's Paul Dacre got?