Gordon Brown has recently declared his government’s plans to initiate a National Health Screening programme for male Brits to fight the life threatening diseases.
The British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, on January 7, 2008, declared his government’s plans to start a National Health Screening programme for its male citizens to counter the growing menace from some major life threatening diseases, according to a news release by AFP.
Hailing the national screening programme as unique, British Government officials reiterated its commitment to improved preventative health service in Britain. Gordon Brown further added that the health screening programme would offer every adult male citizen a health MoT which would help keep major diseases at bay.
A revamp of the National Health Services (NHS) appears to be in the offing, with the Prime Minister calling for a change in the functioning of the NHS by its 60th year of operations. The focus would be on preventing disease, as against treating them. With a view to making the services more personalized and check the augment of disease, the health screening programme in Britain will offer a regular dosage of information to its citizens and medical practitioners in Britain.
GPs, or General Practitioners, of the patient or similar service providers would conduct the health screening programme in Britain, and cover a range of blood tests, ultrasound scans and electro-cardiograms (ECG). These tests would enable the NHS to achieve its personal and preventive healthcare programme.
Heart failure in the UK affects 6.2 Million Britons, and 200,000 of the number succumb to the disease every year. The disease accounts for a fifth of all hospital patients in Britain, prompting health societies calling for new healthcare plans.
The new health programme would go a long way in checking early deaths, feel industry experts, and promote long-term good health, and level health inequalities in the UK. The health screening programme will simultaneously target the removal of hospital superbugs like Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and Clostridium difficile.
As per a Research Analyst at RNCOS, “The awareness of the need to keep good health amongst Britons is growing. The UK healthcare industry covers a wide gamut of product types and healthcare uses. With the declining health of Britons, the health programme in the UK is receiving much political attention, and urgent reforms in the sector are called for. The new healthcare programme hopes to achieve the basic demands of the UK health sector.”
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