NHS advises doctors to tell patients with asthma how much their inhalers are contributing to “climate change”

The Greener NHS has issued new guidance advising doctors to stop prescribing blue asthma inhalers, which are used by millions of patients, due to their contribution to climate change.

RHODA WILSON

In a shocking article published yesterday, The Times clearly demonstrates that the National Health Service (“NHS”) is reaching a tipping point where it is less about health and more about climate change.

The article is about the NHS advising doctors to stop prescribing blue inhalers for asthmatics. Why? Because, according to the headline, the blue inhalers harm the planet. However, after describing the problems asthmatics are causing the environment, almost as an afterthought, The Times noted the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (“NICE”) advice that explains the switch in inhalers is for health reasons.

That The Times has chosen to report on the story in such a way that highlights the NHS is now putting a fabricated anthropogenic climate change crisis above the health of the population is dangerous. Just as shocking as the NHS’ attitude towards its patients, The Times does not criticise the NHS or point out the dangers of green fascism (eco-fascism) taking hold in what was once legitimately called healthcare.

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In the interview above James Delingpole discusses his ‘The Little Green Book of Eco-Fascism: The Left’s Plan to Frighten Your Kids, Drive Up Energy Costs, and Hike Your Taxes!’ (2013) and other climate scam-related topics such as Climategate.

What The Times article is purposefully portraying is that climate activism is becoming the priority for the NHS. If this is the case, aside from being a bottomless money pit, the NHS is no longer fit for purpose and the experiment for socialised healthcare in the UK has completely failed; the eco-fascism in the NHS will do more harm to health than good.

If adult asthmatics want to believe their doctor when he or she says they are one of the causes of “climate change,” so be it, they can’t be helped if they won’t help themselves. However, it seems the time has come to say, “Please do not leave your children alone with doctors or nurses.” There is no way of knowing what dark ideas they are implanting in your children’s minds when you are not present.

We have summarised The Times article written by health editor Eleanor Hayward below. You can read an archived copy of it HERE.

Greener NHS Making Asthmatics Feel Guilty

“Doctors have been told to stop prescribing blue asthma inhalers used by millions of patients under NHS guidance that says the devices cause climate change,” The Times article begins.

Read more: Improving health outcomes for respiratory patients while reducing carbon emissions, Greener NHS, NHS England

Patients will be told that inhalers are bad for the environment. The blue inhalers contain a hydrofluorocarbon propellant that has a “greenhouse gas effect,” and patients will be informed about the environmental impact of their inhalers.

“[Patients] will be given a leaflet showing the carbon footprint of each type of inhaler, and told that the total dosage from a single blue inhaler has a bigger carbon footprint than a 75-mile journey by petrol car,” The Times said.

“Patients who want to help the environment will be advised to switch to dry powder inhalers, which do not contain gas.”

The NHS has estimated that inhaler emissions account for about 3% of its carbon footprint, with 60 million prescribed in England each year, and more than 17 million blue inhalers were prescribed last year to nearly four million patients.

The Health Reason for Switching Inhalers

NICE has said the blue inhalers, also known as “SABA” (short-acting beta agonist) reliever inhalers, only relieve symptoms and do not address the underlying causes of asthma attacks and wheezing. Instead, patients over 12 should be given newer “combination inhalers” containing a low dose of steroids to reduce inflammation in the lungs.

The combination inhalers have been shown to lead to fewer severe asthma attacks, and doctors are advised to issue these inhalers with a low dose of steroids to reduce inflammation in the airways, preventing attacks, plus a fast-acting reliever drug.

Experts say that the “over-reliance” on blue inhalers puts people at higher risk of asthma attacks and death, and specialist doctors and pharmacists have welcomed the new guidelines, stating that blue inhalers are linked to an “increased risk of asthma attacks and deaths.”

Cath Cooksey, lead medicines optimisation pharmacist at Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board, and Professor Michael Crooks, an NHS respiratory physician and academic at Hull York Medical School, have both supported the new guidelines, emphasising the importance of treating inflammation using steroid-containing inhalers.

This article (NHS advises doctors to tell patients with asthma how much their inhalers are contributing to “climate change”) was created and published by The Expose and is republished here under “Fair Use” with attribution to the author Rhoda Wilson

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