Are #Tories interested in #economicdevelopment?

Well, given their defunding of the #NHS & its now very clear effects on #longtermillness, costing the UK economy over £40bn a year in lost #productivity & economic activity, I think we can safely say they are not!... at least not when there is money to be made for their private sector chums (here in #healthcare).

Whatever its significant personal costs, long term sickness is emblematic of the UK's dysfunctional Govt.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/apr/27/britain-poor-record-health-costs-economy-43bn-year-long-term-sickness-earnings

There's a record number of long term sick since the pandemic- Channel 4 news.
That's what happens when you let a pandemic run riot.
#LetTheBodiesPileHigh
#Tories
#LongCovid
#LongTermIllness
#LongTermSick
#Covid
#Pandemic
#Workforce
#WorkforceShortage

‘The more outlandish the claim, the more likely it will stick in people’s minds’ – expert’s warning as fake news and cancer ‘cures’ put patients at risk

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/health/the-more-outlandish-the-claim-the-more-likely-it-will-stick-in-peoples-minds-experts-warning-as-fake-news-and-cancer-cures-put-patients-at-risk-42394600.html

#skeptic #sceptic #scepticism #chronicillness @chronicillness @spoonies #longtermillness #health #quackery

Why is #JeremyHunt keen to focus on trying to get the over-50s to 'unretire'?

Well, its a useful distraction from the real problems which are #longtermillness (aggravated by the #NHScrisis) and the costs of #childcare... both issues that the Govt. could do something about but chooses not to... its just another bit of declaratory politics that (following Polly Toynbee's article, just posted) emphasis the mendacity at the heart of UK politics!

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/feb/20/over-50s-back-to-work-uk-lcp-report

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“Use Others to Support You as a #Caregiver

There is a “rings of trauma theory” & it says that you draw a circle with whoever has the trauma in the center, & you make degrees (or people) connected to the trauma going outward. Please “support in” & “dump out””

#chronicillness #longtermillness

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“Take Care of Yourself and Have a Life Outside of Caregiving

Please don’t make #caretaking your whole life. Make sure that you are doing the things that are restorative to you, and that make your life rewarding outside of me. And don’t feel guilty doing them! You deserve to have an identity outside of this illness, and you will be a better caregiver to me if you take care of yourself”

#caring #caregiver #caregivers #caregiving #carer #carers #longtermillness #chronicillness

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“Please put yourself in my shoes and meet me with empathy and understanding.”

#chronicillness #longtermillness

“Favorite Reads of 2022” by Jennie Spotila
http://occupyme.net/2022/12/30/favorite-reads-of-2022/

Jennie has a #chronicillness (#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis) for nearly three decades and all but one of her non-fiction selections relate to #illness and #longtermillness

@chronicillness #spoonie

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“If you’re one of the many people with chronic health problems who don’t look sick, the burden is on you to make your condition “visible.” If you don’t take this pre-emptive action, people’s expectations of you may be way out of line with what you can handle”

@chronicillness @mecfs #longtermillness #LongTermDisease