Labour’s 10-year plan to preserve the NHS includes the distribution of smartwatches to millions of people so they can track their health.
These individuals seem to be blind to the fact that the majority of people won’t wear them and that it will be a complete waste of money.
These wearable technologies will be distributed around the nation to help treat more patients at home and prevent sickness. They will include blood pressure monitoring devices, glucose monitoring devices, and cancer patient response to therapy.
Health Secretary Wes Streeting is set to announce a ‘national conversation’ on the future of the NHS on Monday.
On Saturday, he said: ‘If we want to save the things we love about the NHS, then we have to change it.
‘Our 10-year health plan will turn the NHS on its head – transforming it into a Neighbourhood Health Service powered by cutting-edge technology that helps us stay healthy and out of hospital. We will rebuild the health service around what patients tell us they need.’
Mr Streeting believes there are three major shifts required to ensure the NHS’ survival, The Telegraph reports.
The government intends to replace analogue services with digital ones, shift the emphasis from treatment to prevention, and shift more care out of hospitals and into the community.
As part of this change, patients will be prescribed devices like smartwatches so they can keep an eye on their health in real-time.
Patients with diabetes may use phone notifications to measure their blood sugar levels, while others can keep an eye on their excessive blood pressure. And in a groundbreaking development, smart rings that enable cancer patients to monitor their vital signs may be made widely available.
Some patients in Greater Manchester who are facing blood, lung, and bowel cancer have already received the rings.
Patients may monitor their temperature, heart rate, amount of physical activity, and sleep patterns while undergoing therapy.
Patients undergoing stroke recovery will also have access to other gadgets that track their movement, and Parkinson’s disease patients can also record their tremors using smartwatches.
It is hoped that easier at-home health monitoring will lessen the strain on the National Health Service (NHS).
For instance, people with Type 2 diabetes often need to visit the GP or the hospital once a month.
Mr Sreeting said: ‘The challenges for the NHS are stark, but the opportunities are huge. Modern technology will transform how patients are cared for, making their lives infinitely easier and the NHS fit for the future.
‘At the same time, we will protect what patients want from the NHS – the family doctor relationship, free healthcare at the point of need, and shorter waits for appointments. Our 10-year health plan will preserve the NHS’s traditional values in a modern setting.
‘It’s going to take time, but it is our mission to take the NHS from the worst crisis in its history, get it back on its feet and make it fit for the future.’
It comes after Labour this week backed plans to offer unemployed Brits free jabs of the controversial ‘miracle’ weight loss drug, Ozempic.
Defending the drugs, Sir Keir Starmer told the BBC: ‘I think these drugs could be very important for our economy and for health.’
He added: ‘This drug will be very helpful to people who want to lose weight, need to lose weight, very important for the economy so people can get back into work.
The trouble with this idea though, is that the more people that are allowed to have ‘Ozempic’, the more likely people with diabetes, and who need it, won’t be able to have it because it will then be in short supply.
People must lose weight, but there are also other alternatives. Stop GMOs (Genetically Modified Foods), stop all processed foods and then that’s half the battle, but they won’t do that because it’s not profitable.
Whenever I hear the word ‘sustainability’ I cringe.
It is only sustainable when money is pouring into our politicians’ coffers. Otherwise, it is not economic sustainability. Regarding environmental concerns, in about twenty years they will be telling us that electric vehicles are a bad idea, just as they do with everything else they thought was a good idea until deciding it wasn’t. In terms of society, what I perceive is social purification. Then there’s resource conservation and the environmental impact. Indeed, it would be very sustainable to create more genetically modified organisms and cancer-causing foods.
The NHS rollout of issuing smart tech would be mired in overcharging and sleazy behaviour from our government, but smart tech will not prevent excess deaths of pensioners who are forced to choose between heating and eating.
While I support physical activity and a balanced diet, I predict that many smartwatch owners will sell them on eBay at a huge profit—just wait and see!
It sounds a little bit like a swindle, and while this initiative is being implemented, the manufacturers and politicians will undoubtedly make fat cat profits, and these watches won’t be free because the taxpayer will foot the bill, not our government, nothing ever comes out of their pockets, but this is how the world works, it always has and always will.
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