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@bookhunter2007 wrote:

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Possibly, but then you'd have to take into account the amount of resources which are to be spent on clawback. The last thing the NHS needs are more funds spent on bean counters and lawyers chasing amounts that don't make that much of a difference in the big scheme of things.

 

Biggest challenge the NHS faces are from costs associated with treatment of long-term conditions, such as cancer, diabetes, mental health, & cardiovascular disease.

 

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jan/03/nhs-overwhelmed-long-term-medical-conditions

 

Alot of these conditions are preventable, but problems arise when any initiative to drive prevention, or raise taxes on unhealthy products results in cries of "nanny state".

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Yes agree about the bean counters as there are enough of those already within the existing NHS system.

Seems to me diet is where it should start, namely at home followed closely by education. We have a generation of younger people who don't know how to look after themselves or understanding the basic components of food. It's easier/quicker to buy something ready made without thinking about the longer term  consequences.

The Supermarket cartels need to take a long hard look at themselves but of course they won't because of their enormous profit incentives.  Ban fast food outlets, dreadful places!  I can't remember where I read it now as it was quite sometime back but there was an experiment in an area in California where they banned fast food outlets and monitored the health of a sample group both before the ban then about 4 months where the changes in their health were quite staggering.