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Easy to ignore?
With so much upheaval in the NHS at the moment, there is little time or funding left to consider the impact of growing problems and illnesses that do not immediately threaten lives on a large scale.
As the Neurological Alliance points out, an ageing population means that neurological conditions are becoming more common, with no increase or improvement in the care the NHS offers these patients.
Unfortunately it is always prevention and limitation before these cases get to emergency situations which are most effective.
Although planning ahead and acting now would be the best course of action, it is debateable whether this will actually occur. Especially with conditions that have received less publicity, people, including Governments, find it far easier to ignore.
If you do not fully understand something, you can discount its consequences and the necessity of action far more easily. Until awareness of neurological conditions increases, it is likely that care for these conditions will remain the same.
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