{"id":25731,"date":"2025-03-24T13:43:04","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T13:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/?p=25731"},"modified":"2025-03-24T13:43:04","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T13:43:04","slug":"bant-backs-greater-ministerial-control-and-accountability-within-the-national-health-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/bant-backs-greater-ministerial-control-and-accountability-within-the-national-health-service\/","title":{"rendered":"BANT backs greater ministerial control and accountability within the National Health Service."},"content":{"rendered":"
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BANT has repeatedly called for accountability and to prioritise <\/span>#prevention<\/span><\/span> within the <\/span>#NHS<\/span><\/span>. The UK has seen six Secretary of State for Health and Social Care since 2021, the longest term lasting one year and shortest one month (1).<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Since 1992, 14 government-led strategies and 680 policies related to <\/span>#obesity<\/span><\/span> have failed (2,3). Meanwhile the NHS is imploding under unsustainable strain, and no-one is being held accountable.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cNon-communicable diseases are spiralling out of control\u201d according to BANT CEO and spokesperson Satu Jackson, causing an estimated 89% of UK deaths (4), and draining as much as 75% of health budgets. The Department of Health released data back in 2011 noting that \u201ctotal long-term care expenditure was forecast to rise by 29% to \u00a326.4 billion\u201d by 2022 (5). This underlines the worsening trend in <\/span>#dietinduced<\/span><\/span> #illness<\/span><\/span> and the need for greater accountability when it comes to delivering government policies.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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As for prevention and future-proofing the NHS, currently only 5% of NHS spend goes on prevention (6). We need funding now to invest in long-term initiatives if we want to change this but most of all we need ministers mandated to deliver on their promises.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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BANT backs Keir Starmer\u2019s decision to abolish NHS England and urges the current Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, The Rt. Hon. Wes Streeting MP to deliver on his pledge for prevention-focused healthcare.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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BANT PSA-accredited <\/span>#nutrition<\/span><\/span> practitioners work collaboratively and can be referred to by NHS General Practitioners and Primary Care Networks to help deliver on the government’s prevention strategy, and empower individuals to make healthy <\/span>#dietary<\/span><\/span> and <\/span>#lifestyle<\/span><\/span> choices. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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https:\/\/www.politicshome.com\/members\/article\/bant-backs-greater-ministerial-control-accountability-national-health-service <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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For more information visit BANT.org.uk<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BANT has repeatedly called for accountability and to prioritise #prevention within the #NHS. The UK has seen six Secretary of State for Health and Social Care since 2021, the longest term lasting one year and shortest one month (1). \u00a0 Since 1992, 14 government-led strategies and 680 policies related to #obesity have failed (2,3). Meanwhile the NHS is imploding under unsustainable strain, and no-one is being held accountable. \u00a0 \u201cNon-communicable diseases are spiralling out of control\u201d according to BANT CEO and spokesperson Satu Jackson, causing an estimated 89% of UK…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":24450,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1368,1376],"tags":[2065,2066,159,2067,1933,559,2064,23,178,217,1521,1935],"table_tags":[],"class_list":["post-25731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bant-in-action","category-press-releases","tag-abolish","tag-accountability","tag-bant","tag-integrative-nutrition","tag-keir-starmer","tag-nhs","tag-nhs-england","tag-nutritional-therapy","tag-press-release","tag-prevention","tag-primary-care","tag-wes-streeting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25731"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/media\/24450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25731"},{"taxonomy":"table_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/table_tags?post=25731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}