Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Doctors say the scale of the Type 2 ?lifestyle? diabetes crisis is now so huge that shock tactics are necessary.
Treatment already costs the NHS almost ?10billion a year ? 10 per cent of its total budget.
Under the new scheme, patients with diabetes and those at risk could be bombarded by text messages from NHS surgeries saying things like: ?Exercising three times a week can help you lose up to seven per cent of your body weight.?
Health chiefs are backing the idea and studies have proved text message campaigns can slash the chances of developing diabetes by 40 per cent.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/healt...signal-when-to-exercise-to-help-beat-diabetes
Treatment already costs the NHS almost ?10billion a year ? 10 per cent of its total budget.
Under the new scheme, patients with diabetes and those at risk could be bombarded by text messages from NHS surgeries saying things like: ?Exercising three times a week can help you lose up to seven per cent of your body weight.?
Health chiefs are backing the idea and studies have proved text message campaigns can slash the chances of developing diabetes by 40 per cent.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/healt...signal-when-to-exercise-to-help-beat-diabetes
