More than 3,000 diabetics in England may have died due to a lack of health checks during the first year of Covid, a major NHS study warns. MailOnline has more.
The review of more than 3 million diabetic patients found a massive drop-off in critical checks and tests for diabetes patients in 2020, after the first two lockdowns.
Diabetes patients are meant to have check-ups and tests to look for heart problems, infection or other changes that could be deadly. But researchers found just 26.5% received their full set of checks in England 2020/21, compared with 48% the previous year. They said diabetes took a “double mortality hit” when the NHS moved to remote working and routine appointments were cancelled to focus on Covid.
The study, led by NHS bosses, compared deaths among diabetics in a 15-week period in summer 2021 with the same period in 2019. They found non-Covid related deaths among diabetes patients rose 11% over this period, an extra 3,075 fatalities than would normally be expected.
Diabetes charities said the study showed sufferers had been “pushed to the back of the queue” during the pandemic and had suffered ‘absolutely devastating consequences’ as a result.
The authors, which include Professor Jonathan Valabhji, the NHS’s national clinical director for diabetes and obesity, linked the deaths to the fall in health checks during lockdown. The study also found patients who did not get all their diabetes health checks before the onset of the pandemic were 66% more likely to die than those who did.
In total, the study found only 26.5% of diabetes patients received all eight checks between April 2020 and March 2021 compared to 48.1% of patients the year prior, a decrease in test coverage of 44.8%.
When comparing death records researchers looked at fatalities among diabetes patients between July and October in both 2021 and 2019. There were 30,118 non-Covid deaths in people with diabetes during the 2021 period. The analysis of mortality data only covered a 15-week period in England, meaning the UK toll is likely to be much higher.
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The NHS also diverted GP’s from these kind of checks to focus on the booster rollout from Dec-Feb 2021/22. Prioritising boosting healthy adults and children over routine checks on vulnerable patients, truly The Envy Of The World.
I know this because Mrs TGA has a regular checkup for early stage type 2 which were cancelled so that her health visitor could be reassigned.
“They found non-Covid related deaths among diabetes patients rose 11% over this period, an extra 3,075 fatalities than would normally be expected.” But how do they distinguish deaths from diabetes from deaths caused by vaxx side-effects?
“The study, led by NHS bosses”: ah, their incentives are to blame something other than vaccinations, then. Especially something that will let them moan that the NHS needs even more money.
And are things back to normal now, or still operating well below capacity due to superstitious rituals?
Not directly related, but I was recently told to get a blood test (for something minor in my case). Went on the booking site (they are using a commercial platform designed for concerts and suchlike – looks very amateurish using it for this). Nothing for several weeks, so I booked the first slot suitable, which happened to be today. Even someone needing a test for something serious would face the same couple of weeks to book, as you couldn’t enter your details until selecting the booking.
Just been, anyway. Arrived very early as I didn’t know how easy to find it would be. Only people there were two nurses (in full plastic apron and face nappy, naturally), plus one patient just leaving. Large waiting room with chairs ridiculously spread out, and of course the notices about face nappies and sanitiser (which I did of course ignore). Once of the nurses asked if I had an appointment (yes), then asked me to wear a face nappy (sorry, afraid not). Anyway, the nurses went into another room seemingly for a chat for a few minutes, then one came back, told me which room to go into and took the blood sample (no more than about two minutes between entering the room and leaving again). One more patient was waiting by that time.
So the clear impression I got was a service operating at way under capacity due to the Covidian rituals – it’s clearly not a lack of people needing blood tests, as shown by there being no appointments for over two weeks when I booked. In my case it’s not an issue, but given that many going for blood tests will be doing so for something potentially serious, this really needs sorting out.
I assume that this is typical of most other parts of the NHS?
Mrs FP had to go for a x-ray appointment today, and of course, all the usual rituals were in place.
OH’s was a chest x-ray so she was told to remove her top and bra and put a gown on.
This gown was that “tatty” ( but perfectly clean), that all the strings/cords had ripped or worn off.
“Just hold it together” was the reply to Mrs FP’S obvious comment.
Just how much money is being wasted on face nappies and hand gunk?, eh; while equipment like that “tatty” gown are not replaced.
The Third World shows more respect for patients now.
If you need a blood test, in any other country the doc takes it there and then, as it takes, ooh, half a minute. Only in the UK do you get the hurdles of making an additional appt and an additional attendance. Deliberate dehumanising to signal how unimportant you are.
They seem to be using it additionally as a way to avoid seeing patients now – phone or online appointment followed by ‘we need to get a blood test done. Presumably because this will identify many things without the GP having to ever actually see the patient!
Yes indeed “de-humanising” is the first step towards contempt.
NHS ruined – readay fr a complete root and branch change in its whole focus and direction.
Get ready for “stay at home” and “virtual wards’ monitored by text messages..
Agreed. At my appointment yesterday there was nobody else in the waiting room before or after my session. In a GP surgery in the UK?? Hens must be growing teeth.
If the survey was carried out by the NHS then the true number is likely to be at least times ten
I see you have a downvote! Clearly there are people who still believe that the NHS can be trusted…
Well, Lord Snotty appears to be advocating strongly for the establishment position. Perhaps it was him and one of his trolling cave dweller buddies.
Sent here as a totally transparent Troll.
They must be Government plants – (friends of Javid)
More like poisonous weeds.
Indeed – 2 of them!
Common sense isn’t very common
Robert Malone is saying evidence supports Monkeypox strain being bio-engineered and deliberately spread https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/monkey-pox-update
So who is at all surprised ? Gates has been getting excited about Monkey Pox for months!
Michael Jackson quite liked these animals. A pity he couldn’t have Gates as a zoo inmate.
The impact on diabetes, there probably was a rise, as with lots of things.
BUT important to understand the difference between lockdown and medical service capacity and planning decisions.
While it may be popular to bundle it all together, it is not correct.
Without lockdown, it may have been much worse. Unless you think properly you will not find out.
“Without lockdown, it may have been much worse. ” Like in Sweden you mean?
Without punches administered by Frank Bruno, injuries would be much worse….
He is just reading and copying his lines.
No Snotty is just riffing on the “vaccine” line when somebody says they’ve had the C1984 for the twentieth time:
thank God I had the “vaccine” or it would have been soooo much worse.
“Unless you think properly”
Thanks for the laugh.
I don’t know which planet you are living on. The NHS shut up shop for 2 years and has yet to fully reopen, if it ever does. The Health Ministry strategists could have predicted these issues, ie diabetes, mental health, cancer diagnosis and treatment etc, if they had spent 5 minutes scribbling on the back of an old envelope, but they didn’t. They still have t told us why not, perhaps the covid enquiry will tell us, in about 5 years time.
’Without lockdown it may have been much worse’. No, the data is in. Without lockdown it would have been much better. And the economy wouldn’t have tanked and we wouldn’t be facing rampant inflation, spiralling food and fuel prices and a recession. Try to get out more, or stop watching the BBC and reading the guardian. Or both.
ps. Your written English is oddly stilted. You’re not a troll are you?
Planet 77 of course!
That was what the propaganda claimed, but it was clearly bollocks. It would only have been ‘much worse’ if:
a) the virus was as dangerous as claimed (it wasn’t), and
b) the draconian restrictions significantly reduced infections (they didn’t).
There is no scientific justification for lockdown. That is why it was correctly abandoned as policy, centuries ago.
Lockdown was revived by the mediaevalist philosophy of environmentalism.
You are evil, your posts support genocide.
Without lockdown, it may have been much worse.
This statement means nothing.
It’s not so much a statement as a load of shite.
Technically, it’s a flame bait. It’s worded to rub people the wrong way but doesn’t actually say anything.
It is also shite.
Trolling then.
Lockdown also prevented the space giraffes from gaining a foothold!
And you would know what about either?
Zilch.
Pompous ass.
The tip of a very large iceberg.
The GP’s were paid extra money to dump their regular patients and start jabbing
And many lives were saved by vaccination.
How many? Please show your workings.
Interested to see how you explain how all-cause mortality seems to go up in synch with vaccine rollout.
Easy. One just needs to do a standard covid face nappy for that: Living people are dangerous vectors of Sars-CoV2. Killing them by injection thus saves the lives of those they had otherwise infected with the dreadful disease.
And many lives were lost due to lockdown, Lord Haw-Haw.
They aren’t vaccines.
According to Luc Montagier ( sadly deceased highly qualified and respected for mer head of French Health service vaccination policy):
“They are poisons”
No evidence whatever.
Many lives would have been saved by Hancock-Johnson -Javid banned Ivermectin though.
Prove it.
Oh really? Snot for brains time again
And let’s remember that many of these type 2 diabetes deaths before this increase are due to big food and big pharma and the majority of the medical profession who through ignorance (or worse) act as de facto pharmaceutical and processed food industry representatives.
It should be obvious that you treat an illness that is essentially an intolerance of carbohydrates by cutting out most of those carbohydrates.
Excellent video here from Debra Scott on how she put her diabetes in remission. Why is this not the sort of common sense standard advice that a newly diagnosed diabetic routinely gets from their GP. Yes some GPs understand it, but most don’t.
Most doctors have little grasp of nutrition. Unless it is an obvious link, like a morbidly obese patient, the view is nutrition is largely incidental.
That’s why free speech matters. I’ve significantly amended my diet over the last ten years using information I found online from credible sources.
Weight loss, reducing carbohydrates did little to affect my diabetes status, but then I have hypothyroidism and there appears to be a link between these conditions. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30649221/
If you haven’t already, I would advise you to check your iodine levels. A 24 hour urine collection is the best way. Biolab in London do it, amongst other places. Many books on the subject, The Iodine Crisis by Lynne Farrow being one.
Up to the late 1970s, GPs advised type 2 diabetes patients to eat more meat, milk, eggs & vegetables and less bread, pasta and cakes. I remember two friends of my parents becoming diabetic in their 50s and making this change on doctor’s advice. They lived to a normal age (early 80s) and didn’t have to face procedures like foot amputation … urghh.
Dr David Unwin, an NHS GP, cured many of his diabetic patients by persuading them to eat a lower-carb. diet. Tom Watson, a former MP was cured by his doctor ignoring NHS advice.
Has the NHS become the National Hell Scheme?
However the diabetic nurse can give a patient all possible information on diet, exercise, alcohol and smoking. The majority will not take any notice thinking the pills will sort it out and then they carry on eating cakes, ice cream, pizzas etc,
some patients will not do anything proactive to help to control their disease, despite mega-input from members of the medical profession.
Johnson and his cabinet should be locked down for life for mass homicide.
Locked down in Michael Moore’s underpants.
A cruel and unusual punishment.
Fully justified and appropriate for a great fat Communist fraud.
I managed to have phone consultations for my type 2 DM, with relevant blood tests arranged at the surgery. It isn’t the blood sugar levels that are necessarily the problem but the other issues such as peripheral neuropathy or leg ulcers that are the potentially dangerous complications if they’re not monitored.
However, my wife has asthma and a telephone review is meaningless.
Also any infection or any vaccination can cause a significant rise in blood glucose levels to the point of inducing diabetic Keto acidosis (DKA) or hyperglycaemic hyperosmolar syndrome (HHS) which are medical emergencies.
https://diabetesjournals.org/spectrum/article/31/2/206/32361/Acute-Hyperglycemia-After-Influenza-Vaccination-in
https://journals.lww.com/jfmpc/Fulltext/2021/10050/Prolonged_hyperglycemia_in_three_patients_with.43.aspx (CoViD19 infection)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8143905/ post AstraZeneca vaccination
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8546144/
Altogether, our study recommends additional caution when vaccinating people with pre-existing clinical conditions, including diabetes, electrolyte imbalances, renal dysfunction, and coagulation disorders.
My 9 year old son saw this 37 second clip on Youtube and sent it to me, it fully explains what Doctors are all about.
I’m glad he understands what money grubbing scum bags most Doctors are.
‘We’re all about the money’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ks_J7SNqEJg
It is worth remembering that in any process that triggers an inflammatory response there is an increase in temperature, swelling, increased heart rate, these require energy, which means glucose needs to be made available.
the states position seems to be you need to have restrictions to save some people while killing others, well its a novel idea Ill give them that.
Health redistribution is as idiotic as wealth redistribution (income taxation).
Lockdowns were an act of democide against the people of Britain. It was a ploy to demoralise a population, to induce a sense of despair and then low and behold the key to your freedom aka the Vaccine came.
Remember the Daily Mail’s “15 million jabs to freedom” headline in December 2020?
Alles klar!
After all, “death” is the ultimate “freedom”
And yet, there is a problem with keeping illegal migrants who came into Dover, in an airbase in a small village, because of their ‘Human Rights’, they must be allowed to wander freely around this village.
Disgusting, sold-out propaganda rag!
I remember the Daily Mail article (21 April 2020) about vitamin D being a “bright new hope to fight the virus”.
Someone remind me what they said about the subsequent rigged vitamin D trials?
More evidence of the Covid scam disaster and Government denial of the massive damage done ( ongoing of course).
The people have a right to get very angry at the brutalist Cavalier way they have been treated by all the authorities involved throughout and all based on totally false assumptions .
We remember the refusal to do a “cost benefit analysis” which would have challenged the Globalist Lockdown co-ordination – coming initially from China clearly behind the whole Lockdown policy. We also remember the aggressive, illogical, policing.
But we need to shift from “then” and concentrate on “now” and now the censored issues of Vaccine ineffectiveness and massive damage while the Government persists in its flat denial of any issues and the coercing of ever more of the same jabs on the passive population .
Time for a damage limitation exercise and the suspension of all further Covid vaccinations – especially of the young we seem to have forgotten we ought to be protecting!
The Opposition didn’t ask for a cost-benefit analysis. Nor did they press the Home Office to get a grip on policing. They are as deep in this scandal as the Government so will do their best to ensure the Government is not held to account, otherwise they will hang together.
“The analysis of mortality data only covered a 15-week period in England, meaning the UK toll is likely to be much higher.”
Exactly. The real figure is much, much higher … and this is just in the UK.
This much is clear: “Public health” did NOT improve for diabetics.
The indication here on DS that mask wearing in NHS health care settings was to be dropped yesterday seems to have been fake news. It hasn’t happened. I am well overdue for a diabetes review but the mask nonsense keeps me away. I can, of course, simply not wear one but I find the stupidity of people around me wearing masks raises my blood pressure! I also find it difficult to take a mask wearing medic seriously.
My niece, nurse, said they actually think they make them look important, like surgeons
Interesting. I guess that appeals to drama queens. My wife is a nurse, still working part-time before she finally retires. She hates having to wear them all day. At her age she doesn’t feel the need to look important.
They younger ones seem to have been swept up on the drama, the clapping, the discounts because they are NHS, legends in their own minds
And not forgetting the Tik Tok videos. More like legends in their own lunchtimes.
I totally agree, I hated them when working in 2020 in an urgent care centre.
Further to my previous post there was a “request” to wear a mask for my appointment which I ignored. The receptionist asked if I was exempt and I lied! That statement cannot be challenged so it is so easy to go without a mask.
I wonder, once the dust settles and ALL the numbers of ‘non-COVID’ excess deaths come out BECAUSE of the lockdowns and lack of access to diagnostics and care, that they become vast majority of all deaths from March 2020.
I’d put good money on many of those huge number of (with) ‘COVID’ deaths (i.e. the vast majority) being eventually put as non-COVID, but given little to no publicity in the MSM.
“All-cause mortality during COVID-19: No plague and a likely signature of mass homicide by government response.”
https://www.bleadon.org.uk/media/other/24400/Rancourt-All-causemortalityduringCOVID-19—-3.pdf
Any sufferer from any long term medical condition has a personal responsibility to manage their condition, it’s not just the responsibility of the health care professionals. All diabetics know they should have annual check ups so if they don’t get contacted by their GP surgery there’s nothing to stop them demanding an appointment.
I’m a Type 1 diabetic and that’s what I did in May 2020. It was hysterical walking into the surgery which was kitted out as if in the middle of an Ebola epidemic and the nurse was not wanting to be there but I got my review. In May 2021 they had learnt their lesson and I got my invitation and yesterday I was there for my 2022 appointment.
So what has stopped others doing the same? I would suggest it was all the lies and propaganda convincing people that “our NHS” was at risk if people dared to ask for their conditions to be monitored properly.
Another item on the charge sheet for those liars who created all the unnecessary panic.
From what I can see the whole media, political and medical establishment is disconnected from the public.
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The picture shows a slim, youngish white female. Now why would they do that when the vast majority of diabetes sufferers are obese, middle-aged plus and a disproportionate ratio by population are Asian/black?
And why show a finger pricking device when interstitial glucose monitoring sensors are widely used? Answer to both questions is a lack of diabetes knowledge amongst those who choose the stock images.
A guy in my local had diabetes (and leukemia) and sadly died during the lockdowns. He more-or-less lived in the local, except for lockdowns, of course.
The sad staff and customers who missed him all said he died of covid!