Should we have annual medical check-ups?

Question:

Preventative check-ups could reduce unnecessary costs of cure. That being so, should we all have annual check-ups? If yes, could the NHS sustain this extra burden?

Answers:
over the age of 50/60 .definitely,it would reduce unnecessary visits to the g.p and it would help diagnose ailments before they went too far, and therefore make illnesses easier to treat.it would be taken out of taxes.

Other Answers:
Yes we should, but we really need to take action and be responsible for ourselves.

I'm not sure who the NHS is.. But medicare is now paying for PREVENTIVE medicine. So I think it would work. It would save A LOT of money on the other end. Yes.
No they can't.

Rawlyn.

Yes, it is in their best interest to, because it is a greater burden when you become sick of something that could of been cured. You will need more medical attention and use more money once you are sick. The financial responsibility of people who is not proactive in their health care is a strain on our country. The emergency room should be used for emergencies and if we took better care of ourselves then it might cost up some money now, but save us a lot more in the future. Yes I think its a good idea for an annual check-up. If the NHS did foot the bill, wouldn't they of saved money by doing a check up in the first place because they've caught things early or prevented them?

I think it is a good idea, but as you suggest, I don't think the NHS has the resources to cope in the short term, even if it would save in the long-term. Our government is ALL about the short-term in any case and so this would hardly get a look in as a potential policy. It would also not only be the cost of taking the annual check up on but if things were found wrong the NHS would be under a duty to follow up the required medical care - again burdening resources. It think the kind of things that an annual check up would reveal would not in any case lighten the burden on the NHS because the majority of things for which people use the NHS are short term illnesses and accidents which are not necessarily related to general or underlying health.

Yes I think we should an annual check up, but at the moment the NHS system do not have the infastructure in place to justify this, nor do they have the money to implement the required to make the neccessary changes.

Annual check-up will save many lifes, and will ultimately save a lot of money, since people would possibly be healthier, and problems such as AIDs and Cancer would be caught earlier in a lot of people, meaning an increased changed that they can be cured.

Definately! Yes check up inform us about our present health situation

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