Health and Safety

We are all, individually, responsible for our own health. We make choices about what we take into our bodies as regards food, fluids and substances and we make choices on how we look after our health – mental and physical. We also have the option to ignore potential health problems, take ourselves off to our local GP and hope for the best or give ourselves that extra edge in health care by taking out health insurance.

The government also has a large hand in our health care. It is in their interests to look out for the health of the nation as the fitter we are the less drain we are on health resources. But who regulates what they tell us, in our supposed best interest, and who determines whether or not it has worked?

This is why we have independent watchdogs. And two of these bodies have recently been assessing whether the government’s latest initiative to improve our health has worked and whether or not it should continue in the same Read More