Birchington Medical Centre 2015-04-02 Person 3 5 0

I would like the practice to be more involved in preventative medicine. By that I mean more thorough testing to establish a patient's risk to many of the more common ailments which, if discovered early enough, can be treated more effectively or even cured. Some fairly simple ailments become chronic and costly when discovered too late. I appreciate the argument that comprehensive tests ( blood) for example are expensive but it can actually work out cheaper in the long run if it can avoid/reduce certain ailments becoming chronic or compounded. Certainly, if it is not possible for every patient, I strongly feel that it should be available for those patients who request it and are actively trying to look after themselves.