So, this is the second part of Labour NHS chaos.
So, this report is fairly old because it's the latest one.
The impact of winter pressures on adults in Great Britain.
So, around a quarter of adults, 23%, were occasionally hardly ever or never able to
keep comfortably warm in their living room in the past two weeks.
Over 1610 adults reported using less gas and electricity because of increases in the cost
of living, which of course has gone up a lot more with salaries for the most of us staying
the same.
Around one in three, 34% of all adults reported that cutting back on heating their home has
negatively affected their health or wellbeing.
Around one in six adults were somewhat or very worried their food would run out before
they had any money to buy more.
And six percent said their household had run out of food and could not afford to buy any
more.
And one in five adults reported eating smaller portions because of the rising cost of living.
While 17% said they were eating food past its use by date.
One in five reported they were waiting for a hospital appointment test or to start receiving
medical treatment throughout through the NHS.
Of those who said waiting for NHS treatment had negatively affected their life, around
1610 reported that the wait had affected their wellbeing, while one in three said they had
made their conditions worse.
Barriers to getting a GP appointment in the past month included being offered only a telephone
consultation when they wanted a face-to-face appointment.
Not everybody can afford a mobile or a fixed home phone.
Waiting too long for a GP appointment, not being able to get a GP appointment, so there
are the figures.
Overview of the impact of winter pressures.
So the most commonly reported issue where the cost of living is 92% and the NHS 80%.
And then this, if you want to, I'll let you know the document and then we can look at
that further.
So the impact of increased cost of living.
So the price of food shopping increases, gas and electricity bills increase.
Maybe they wish you have a special tariff during winter so that we make sure that we're
all comfortable.
The price of fuel is increasing, so mobility is a factor.
Those who reported an increase in the cost of living compared with a month ago said they
were spending less on non-essentials, using less fuel such as gas or electricity in the
home, shopping around more, spending less on food, shopping and essentials.
So effectively we've got energy insecurity.
So half of adults in this particular year who pay energy bills found it very or somewhat
difficult to afford them and then six in ten adults were very or somewhat worried about
keeping warm in their home over winter.
So what is it?
We haven't really been given enough time by the government when they've raised this issue
because it doesn't really, I mean it really focuses the mind that if they're not going
to look after the OAPs they're not going to look after anybody and people are just going
to tighten their belts even more.
So we're going to have companies going under, pubs, clubs, entertainment and so forth.
I mean the only entertainment most people are going to do which is going to be paid
by their own company and nobody is going to really entertain themselves because it's just
too expensive.
So but then we've got an issue where we're effectively less healthy.
So consequences are using heating less, using washing machine less, using tumble dryer less,
using bath or shower less.
So and these are the charts, using heating less, using tumble dryer less, using the washing
machine less, using bath or shower less, cooking less.
So not having a warm meal and just probably eating out of tins or maybe having some toast.
Can't we call that a warm meal?
Using the TV or tablets or laptops or game consoles less, not heating or reheating food
until it is piping hot.
So we're going to get lots of people with food poisoning.
Other unplugging the fridge or freezer.
Well major issue if you've got food in there and then restriction of medical devices which
should be a big no no.
So let's move on.
So most people put in on more clothing or blankets so you need an element of your skin
to breathe and it could cause onto other issues.
I mean only heating rooms at home that you use using hot water bottles going to bed early.
I mean that really doesn't give you a reason to hang around and your life is getting not
very, you know, it's a deterioration of actually wanting to stay alive.
So here's it again in graph form.
Food insecurity.
So most of it is so adults worried about their food will run out before they have money to
buy more.
House had run out of food and could not afford to buy more.
That's one in six and one in 10 said they tend to or definitely disagree with the statement
my household can afford to eat a balanced diet.
And that means that you don't just have people that are eating unhealthy food.
You have a significant portion of growing children and adults who do not eat the right
food so they don't grow their minds and bodies correctly.
So of course you're going to have people eating out less.
So people have gone from going to restaurants to takeaways.
People that did takeaways, they probably find prepared foods like ready meals, pizzas, etc.
in the supermarkets.
People that used to do that, maybe they can make it from scratch or find a work around
or they buy cheaper food or they buy discounted food, which I mean, it's still still okay,
but it's a little bit of hiss and miss.
So there are the charts for that.
I mean, the main thing is the NHS waiting list.
So if you are poorly and you can't heat yourself properly and you're not in the right mental
state because you know, you've got that element of ground whole day, it can have a very detrimental
amount on your health.
So my well-being has been affected 59%.
It has made my condition worse 36%.
My ability or exercise has been affected 34%.
My mobility has been affected 33%.
So let's have a go.
Yeah, I mean, we don't have the proper GP practice.
I mean, if you're ill, you probably don't have the energy, you want to sleep, you want
to recuperate and you don't want to have this hassle of sort of hanging on the phone before
eight to go getting the appointment or trying again at 12 for sort of any free slots.
So you know, you can wait sort of 30, 60, 90 minutes or you get the receptionist say,
oh, please do the consultation through a website or 111.
And then you just go around in circles where it says, oh, you need to do this, this and
this, which is very difficult.
So then if you are ill, you need some sort of remote consultation.
I mean, in the past you had, I think probably about a quarter of consultations in people's
homes where if you're, I mean, number one, if you're that sick, it can make it take a
lot longer to get better.
But effectively, whatever you have could be highly contagious and you're going to infect
probably the entire number of people that went for appointments on that day and maybe
later if staff contract it.
So there's that little bit with the graphs.
So impact of winter pressures on health.
So you know, having to cut back on heating, detrimental to your health, waiting too long
for GPT appointments, that will have impacts on your health, waiting too long for a hospital
appointment for treatment, having to cut back on gas or electricity to cook or heat meals.
I mean, that's the main thing.
You need sustenance and the correct sustenance to get better and you need to, you know, the
any infected part of your body or you need to feel refreshed.
If you don't shower or bath enough, that is a detriment to that.
If you don't reheat food, that's food poisoning, food poisoning about unplugging your fridge
and freezers.
They may, I mean, the time it takes for a freezer to get fully up to speed may take
a couple of days.
So you may have an issue that you're not properly freezing your food and that these are issues
and the under use of very important medical facilities that you need electricity.
So people are very worried about the rising cost, about staying warm, about the NHS list
and accessing GPs.
So let's go very quickly.
So there's a number of data sets which we'll go through in a different, but I mean, it's
fundamental.
You need a variety of vitamins and minerals.
So you need a variety of things like food, vegetables, pulses, meat or fish, starchy
foods such as pasta, rice and dairy.
And then you probably need the full spectrum of vitamins.
So it is very strange that we have had the pandemic, which has bankrupted a lot of individuals.
There are lots of individuals who, because they weren't working or were self-employed
or were redundant, didn't have the relevant support.
And at the moment, this, you know, the whole principle of the, or the main principle was
to look after the old and the young.
And at the moment with the current criteria from the government to slowly eradicate these
particular supplements to make it livable during the wintertime, it's just crazy.
You know, we spent sort of, probably spent a few trillion to say effectively, we'll make
sure that the OOPs have a life and don't have a premature death.
You have other people staying away so that we don't have the NHS overwhelmed.
And we've got a situation now where we're going to get, you know, at least between 12,000
and 120,000 unexplained deaths due to heating and eating, as well as the NHS not being in
a fit state to be able to manage all these elements.
And of course, you've got the lower end where you're going to have issues with the young.
So all of that is just torn up.
It will show on the world stage that we're not a proper society because proper societies
look after their young and old and not looking after the people with the voice pop of the
moment or have the strength of character or strength of remuneration to actually get what
they want.
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