NHS wasting millions on worried well, top GP warns

Published: 8:00AM GMT 08 March 2010

Dr Iona Heath, the boss of the Royal College of General Practitioners, pronounced that resources were being kept afar from those who unequivocally indispensable them.

She combined that the NHS indispensable to concentration some-more on those who are honestly ill as a "moral and mercantile imperative", the Daily Mail reported.

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Her notice comes after a outrageous enlarge in NHS spending on open health campaigns and drug directed at preventing illnesses in new years.

The Government not long ago commissioned a inform job for the NHS to outlay even some-more on preventing illness.

Dr Heath added: "No concept health-care complement saved by taxation can compensate for the curative diagnosis of all risks to health, and nonetheless this seems to be the stream aspiration.

"In the name of impediment being self-evidently improved than cure, health caring appropriation is being evenly diverted afar from the ill and towards the well."

She done the comments in an essay for 2020Health, a centre-right think-tank and argued that the mania was heading to the systemic remedy of individuals.

A orator for the Department of Health said: "With an ageing race and the increasing superiority of lifestyle diseases, preventing seizure and keeping people full of health is the most appropriate long-term word process for the nations health and handling the monetary hurdles ahead."