Healh Secretary idiocy

[Nearly Sane]

Coffey being an idiot. This govt is really of all the talentless.

[jeremyp]

Patients will be able to obtain antibiotics from
pharmacies without seeing a doctor under new
plans aimed at reducing the need for GP
appointments.

Thérèse Coffey, the health secretary, has pushed
to make antibiotics more freely available and
has said that she has previously handed out her
own supplies of the medicines to friends and
family who were feeling unwell.

Well that sounds like a recipe for disaster. Has she not heard of evolution?

[Gordon]

Madness - there are problems of over-precribing already, some people can have an allergic response (such as to penicillin), but more worrying is that if people self-medicate based on the assumption they need antibiotics then not only could they be wrong, such as if they have a virus, but their symptoms aren't being properly assessed by a professional.

This woman is dangerous.

[SteveH]

To be fair, pharmacists are trained professionals, but it's still a stupid idea.

[Udayana]

Whichever way I look at it, I end up thinking that when Truss chose her ministers she picked the most unsuitable people possible for the various positions.

The only question is whether this was as joke, or just outright stupidity herself.

ETA: Oh .. there is one possibility that I had discounted: That she remains true to her LibDem beginnings but determined that the best way to destroy the Conservatives was from within...