Good evening. I went to Crafty Club this morning. Took a new piece of sewing I am working on. It's in a large hoop, with a needle felted colourful background and I am sewing broken pieces of jewelry onto it. Straight after that I had a coffee with Angela, that was the third coffee of the morning. Far too much for me, I need to keep it down to no more than two per day. After a late lunch I did two dog walks. I was going to go to Aldi after that but couldn't be bothered. Now it's getting dark earlier I feel less inclined to go out after 6pm. I will go tomorrow.
I had a letter on Saturday, we still have Saturday deliveries. It is on headed paper from the NHS. It had my address on it, but not my name. It is a circular they are sending out to random people. To all residents. You are invited to take part in Our Future Health, the UK's largest ever research programme. If you take part you will have the chance to find out more about your health now, and your risk of developing some diseases in the future.
Our Future Health needs up to five million people. Taking part includes answering some questions about yourself, providing a blood sample, and having your blood pressure and cholesterol levels measured at a local clinic. You will have the option of receiving information on your risk of some diseases including diabetes, heart disease, and some cancers. This will be calculated using the information you provide and analysis of the DNA in your blood sample.
I have checked out the web site for Our Future Health. I was particularly interested in who is funding this. Check out who they are partnered with.
Here are just a few.
I was having a conversation with someone who has been having difficulties with getting treatment for a sore foot. It has been going on for a while now and each time he has an appointment with a GP they don't have any answers. They give him another appointment with another specialist. He said the waiting room at the surgery was full to bursting with people going in and out. Gone are the days when you could go to a doctor with an ailment and come out with a diagnosis and treatment. They seem to pass people from pillar to post and keep them hanging on. I have heard similar stories from quite a few other people.
I am wondering why the NHS is looking for new customers when they can't even deal with the ones they already have. I won't be taking part in the research. I will forfeit the £10 voucher they are offering.
Here is a rubbish video I recorded on Thursday at South Ferriby. The sun was making it difficult to see the screen on the camera, I was trying to shelter from the wind, as well as watching where I was putting my feet. Don't bother watching it, it's not very good.
I need to get Mayze in now. She would stop outside all night if I let her.
Thanks for popping in. Toodle pip. ilona
I am sure those blood suckers are not interested in your health and wellbeing, just their massive profits. We are being asked to sign up to some third party organisation just to order our regular prescriptions.
ReplyDeleteYou are such a voice of reason.
Wouldn't it be nice if customers, (patients) could deal directly with the doctors, nurses, and hospitals, without having to go through layers of bureaucracy. This is where the NHS is leaking millions. People who need regular medication are seen as useful cash cows. Counting out a daily ration of tablets on the kitchen table every morning is not the way to treat illnesses. Being able to get a medication review with a real doctor once a month would help to cut down dependency on chemicals in the bloodstream. And of course all this reliant on pills to keep you going will be detrimental to a patients mental well being. Not good wondering when you are going to get your next fix.
DeleteI got that letter some months ago and it ended up in the bin. If the results were just going to be kept 'in house' within the NHS I would have been quite happy to take part, but I do not want my details ending up anywhere else. I did read the blurb staying it would all be anonymous, but we all know that anything stored electronically is vulnerable to being hacked. As for finding out the risk of developing cancers etc, well my thought is that anyone signing up to that must have stronger nerves than me, as I wouldn't like to spend the rest of my life worrying about an increased risk of something that might never happen.
ReplyDeleteYou just don't know where your personal information is going to end up. I take life as it comes. I know people who live in a twilight world because they are constantly worrying about their next batch of smarties. I can't live my life in fear.
DeleteI wouldn’t touch Our Future Health with a barge pole. You don’t know where your information will end up and I imagine the programme will be impossible to withdraw from once you’ve signed up. There’s also a good chance you’ll end up on medication you don’t need. I don’t think there’s any lifestyle advice that could be given to you or I but I’m sure we’d get a big slap on the wrists for not taking a certain medical treatment.
ReplyDeleteOur Future Health is a business, posing as a charity. There is something fishy about the whole set up.
DeleteI got a letter today but this was offering £175 for your participation. But you had a couple of evening meetings and other hoops to jump through.
ReplyDeleteI had the letter you are mentioning but it was a few weeks ago.
People can volunteer to be guinea pigs but they should be warned about the risks involved. Bribery to take part does not sound like a good risk.
DeleteCan I just give a different view point? My acquaintance does statistics for the NHS, he uses patient data to look at how treatments have worked. However the data is not as good as it could be as a number of people opt out of sharing it.
ReplyDeleteHe never gets names and it is completely anonymous. For example something he could be looking at is how many people had the covid jab and went on to develop heart problems against those that didn't.
I'm of a mind that if we use the services of the NHS then we opt to share our data, for the common good.
Yes, you can. People are right to be wary of sharing their personal details. Data brokers are doing a roaring trade with the information that they harvest.
DeleteIt is coming to light that the mRNA covjab is the cause of thousands of deaths and disabilities. They now need to ask more questions, because heart problems are not the only illness that is affecting people. The long term implications for other diseases will manifest themselves in years to come.
In the beginning people were quick to take up the offer of rolling up their sleeves, they even bragged about it, posting their pictures on social media. Those who hesitated and eventually didn't go ahead with it, were seen as selfish, so people kept quiet. The phrase 'common good', was bandied about, to try and nudge them towards joining in. We see now that was a bullying tactic.
The main question which should be asked now, after every death, every serious illness, and every person who has life changing health problems, should be, Did you take any of the covidjabs? This information should be on everyone's records. Detailed investigations should be taking place to see if there are differences between those who did, and those who didn't. But of course they will skirt around that question.
An example. I had a friend who posted her photograph on facebook after she got the treatment. Last month she passed away, a few weeks short of her 72nd birthday. I would say it hastened her death, but who knows without an autopsy. She was going downhill for the last year of her life. I was shocked to see the changes in her. Once a vibrant life and soul of the party type, much loved by friends and family, now gone.
At the end of the day, people must do what they think is best for themselves.
I’m sorry to hear about your friend. Was this the person who lost her mobility after receiving the treatment. Several people I know have either died or developed serious health conditions since having the intervention and are now long term customers of big pharma. I’ve recently started watching this channel about over medication and over treatment in the over 65s.
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Ilona, that's my point, the details will be on everyone's records but if you tick the box to say you dont agree to share, then it doesn't get noticed.
DeleteIf 100 people have the covid jab and 60 of them agree to share their anonymised data, the data is already compromised. We would not know what happened to the other 40.
Perhaps in a way we are not exposing the effects as we could do? We say we all know people who have been affected by the vaccine, but drilling down the complete data, with history of blood groups, previous illness, etc could really expose some serious evidence.
theboatgirl, The last picture I saw of her she was in a hospital bed. She even joked then that her legs had stopped working. She was not the vibrant fun loving girl that I used to know.
DeleteI don’t why people wouldn’t want to have a health check up. I’m not afraid to take part in this. It’s not about being a guinea pig and there are no risks involved in having a check up.It’s about your own individual health. It will assist individuals in making an informed choice about their future health, and consequently preventing future health problems.
ReplyDeleteOur Future Health is not about looking after your health. It's about making money. Just for instance if you went through the tests and they told you that you were probably going to have heart problems, or cancer, or have a stroke, or any of the other illnesses that are going to affect your way of life, would you want to go through years of worry, of treatments, of wondering if you will make it to your next birthday. I have already made my decision. When my time is up, I am happy to go.
DeleteI had a routine blood test last week because I had low iron levels last year I had to wait eight weeks to get the appointment The trainee doctor kept reading off all the statistics they calculated on my risk of developing illnesses in future.I found the whole thing very disturbing.i liked the days when I had a nice GP I could talk too.Boy how things have changed!.I told the person I will sort my own iron levels and health risks out.It unsettled me for days.x
ReplyDeleteI don't want to put myself through that. Some problems can be sorted out with the correct diet. Type 2 diabetes can be reversed.
DeleteSorry to hear of the loss of your friend.
ReplyDeleteI need to let you know I’ve had all the covid vaccines and never had any issues at all.
Every year I have a flu vaccine and have avoided getting the flu.
I'm pleased for you.
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