Interesting. An extract:
“As part of the biggest conversation on the NHS since its inception, the public are able to suggest their own ideas for reform – of which there were more than 800 within hours – and vote others’ suggestions up or down in a league table.
By lunchtime, the most popular ideas were introducing a “maximum body mass index for nurses” and someone raising awareness of “fish odour syndrome”.
Those have been deleted since The Telegraph approached the Department of Health for comment about whether the site was being moderated.”
Speaking as a Brad Pitt body double myself, the weight of many nurses is a scandal. So much for the public consultation – a maximum BMI for nurses won’t be among the list of suggestions being examined, let alone taken up. Nor, I expect, will my suggested ban on female medical students for the next 50 years, to compensate for the disastrous preferencing of women for places in medical schools since the 1970s.
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Justice for Men & Boys 
My suggestion would be simply to do what is done in many European countries with national insurance schemes. Pay the NHS for what it actually does. If GPs were paid for each patient they see etc. Just as at the moment they are paid for specific campaigns (blood pressure checks, various vacinations and so on). Some years ago they got paid circa £100 to do a health check each year for their patients with a learning disability. Despite all the claims of having no time for the 4 years the scheme ran almost every single person registered had their annual check! When the payment was stopped so did the health checks. This despite under the terms of the NHS contract each GP Practice is supposed to ensure all the patients on their “list” who are vulnerable due to disability or age or long term mental health have an annual health check if they havent seen the GP in that year! End the convoluted contract based on the “list” and simply pay the practice for what they have done. I have often commented on my friend in rural Portugal. Where there is 24hr GP services and throughout Covid GPs saw patients, because their NI scheme pays out if there has been a consultation, not a phone call or a suggestion you go to A&E. If such a poor country can manage this then we should be able to. I’m sure lots of P/T GPs would be in their surgeries more if their pay relied on how many patients they actually saw. Even after some years working with the NHS I was shocked that in the year following the only 5% of the learning disabled people involved had a health check. Naively I had thought the explanation for dropping it ,that having got into a “habit” of doing it it would continue , at least it would continue at a reasonable rate. But in fact after two years we were back to zero. The lesson is pay GPs for what they actually do, as an Insurance Scheme does. Its not hard because its what happens right across the left’s beloved “Europe”. Almost no where are the providers and funders rolled into one vast Quango as here.
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