Of note, they are only screening men over 65, so it doesn’t say anything about how likely men under that age are to have one.
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A big problem as I understand it with the NHS is that modern healthcare increasingly relies on this kind of mass screening and monitoring of individuals to produce the best outcomes. But the NHS just does not have the resources to cope with that, everything is so focused on immediate in-and-out approaches to tick a box to say someone’s been treated and dealt with, the whole idea of deliberately setting up a system where you’re expending all of this time money and resources on little more than just setting up a monitor for an at-risk group seems a bit alien.
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Of note, they are only screening men over 65, so it doesn’t say anything about how likely men under that age are to have one.
A big problem as I understand it with the NHS is that modern healthcare increasingly relies on this kind of mass screening and monitoring of individuals to produce the best outcomes. But the NHS just does not have the resources to cope with that, everything is so focused on immediate in-and-out approaches to tick a box to say someone’s been treated and dealt with, the whole idea of deliberately setting up a system where you’re expending all of this time money and resources on little more than just setting up a monitor for an at-risk group seems a bit alien.