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Obesity Is Not The Number One Cause Of Ill-Health At Work Despite Government Claims
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Despite the number one single cause of workplace absenteeism being mental ill-health in the form of stress and anxiety and the greatest risk to the UK workforce, along with increasing levels of suicide amongst the working population; the Government ignores the fact that mental ill-health caused by work pressures, bullying managers, unrealistic performance demands, and compromised work-life balance; needs to be urgently addressed. Instead, their main policy is to push their plans for tackling obesity through a vaccination programme using expensive new drugs from the pharmaceutical industry that already hammers the NHS budget in making huge levels of profit, Starmer and Streeting are doing as the Tory Government did with the Covid-19 pandemic; ensuring huge profits for the industries involved, at the cost of the health of the people of this country. With more and more evidence of the harm that can be caused by mass inoculation of new drugs without the long-term trials needed to ensure safety coming in repeatedly, the Government continues to under fund and privatise the healthcare services in the UK and further disabling the NHS to provide suitable healthcare and prevention to those suffering ill-health and inability to work caused by their obesity. No vaccination can ever successfully treat without further health complications from drug side-affects; the problems in terms of productivity. Rather than putting appropriate healthcare and prevention in place, this Labour Government thinks vaccinations will be the cheaper way of
Tackling the true greatest threat to productivty and the nations health, requires appropriate levels of mental ill-health care from the NHS, workplace adjustments, suicide prevention support services from the NHS and empathic Employer policies; together with increased workplace health and safety legislation enforcement from the HSE.
It is this that has the greatest impact upon working people and not being obese. Reality is that many people suffering mental ill-health can remain employed with simple workplace adjustments implemented by employers, including ensuring the correct work-life balance for workers; whilst being treated appropriately by a national health service that is well-funded. Instead, Government policy is to go for what it sees as quick fixes along with the quick identification of 'blame-targets' within sectors of the British workforce. So-called life-sciences and the pharmaceutical industry are being heavily invested in, whilst the NHS remains broken up into 42 autonomous integrated care systems handing over NHS services to private equity and private healthcare sector in order to boost their profits rather than proper funding and re-building of the NHS and reversing the ever increasing diversion of the NHS budget to the private healthcare sector and overall under-funding of the NHS in real terms. Rather than again blaming the workforce, pouring millions into life-sciences and the pharmaceutical industry and private healthcare industry, tackling the mental health crisis in the whole of the UK; would provide a long-term solution to the ill-health of the UK workforce. But no, once again we here the same Tory message and policies we have had through 14 years of decline, but this time from a Labour Government. Source: Gov.UK press release / everyDoctor / Nuffield Trust / HSE / unionsafety |
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