BANT 2024 Election Manifesto – A call for change!
Time for a prevention-led model to rebuild the nation’s health
***Press release *** Monday 29th April 2024
As UK voters prepare to go to the polls, BANT (British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine) is calling on all parties to place nutrition and preventative healthcare at the heart of their pledges to the UK population.
BANT CEO, Satu Jackson states “The health of the nation is dire. The statistics don’t lie. We are the “sickest nation in Europe” in the most real sense. It is time to focus on prevention and harness the existing workforce of nutrition professionals to make a real difference in the nation’s health crisis”.
BANT has published a five-point manifesto urging decisive action to future-proof the NHS.
Within the manifesto, BANT underlines the need to release NHS staff and resources currently tied to the care of chronic conditions to allow better outcomes in acute and critical care. “We need nutrition practitioners in the NHS”, says Jackson, “simply put, there are not enough GPs to tackle the growing burden of non-communicable diseases”.
According to BANT, the current ‘pill for every ill’ model is not effective in the face of diet-related disease and unhealthy lifestyles and serves only to divert resources. However, “there is one tried and tested way to ‘treat’ symptoms exacerbated by poor diet, and that is by improving how we eat,” says Jackson.
A general election provides parties with the unique opportunity to mark a transition in public health policy, with a focus on a prevention-led model. It is time for change!
Read the full manifesto vis link in BIO or by clicking below.
https://bant.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/BANT-Election-Manifesto_2024-Election-1.pdf? #bant #manifesto #nutrition