So following on from a minister for suicide ( sorry much better to put her salary into mental health which is on its knees through lack of funding) we now have the government expecting Gps to prescribe dance lessons and cookery classes to combat loneliness
Whilst I am a great believer in trying exercise, voluntary work, and groups before prescribing medication are these things really going to go on the prescription pad ?
I have in the past made friends through adult hobby courses held at the local collage however these have all disappeared now, Youth clubs literally all gone in my area , children’s centres being closed rapidly where are the doctors going to send the lonely and will it all be paid for by the government How long before the country is paying for Dr Who conventions or Xbox groups where do you draw the line Send an old person to a ballroom class if you can find one but what about a lonely young man who says it would help him to meet fellow star trekkers
I think it’s good for doctors to talk to the patient about loneliness and also to have lists to give them of local groups ( if there are any) but to put these leisure activities on the NHS is another knife towards killing it off in my opinion
What do you think ?
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Is it me or am I getting mixed messages