Download PDF of press release, 13 December 2018.
Dear friends, colleagues, supporters, natural health warriors and readers
It is perhaps both fitting and ironic that on the day that the Conservative government of the UK is in such political distress (but not quite enough to sink its leader), that we have submitted our consensus ‘blueprint on health system sustainability’ to this same government.
Whether you look at the burdens on our healthcare systems, the precarious state of the environment or even the instability of our political systems, it seems the time for incremental changes may be over.
What we need now more than anything are bold changes. Changes that fundamentally alter the way we live, and how we relate to each other as well as to our environment.
Our ‘blueprint’ presents a new way for us to manage our health. It is the culmination of years of our work, countless hours of deliberation with experts from all over the world and a great deal of testing and evaluation. Not just in the UK, but also much further afield, most recently in Malaysia.
The bold changes needed to ensure we have future-fit health systems, capable of serving Generation Z and those after them, must be adopted by a majority of us, not just a lucky few.
Delivering our ‘blueprint’ to the Rt Hon Matt Hancock MP, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, is not the end of this project. It is the beginning. And our work, using this model of health and care, already stretches well beyond the shores of the UK. But because our base is in the UK, and the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) is so revered by the public and political parties of all ‘creeds’, we felt compelled to target the UK’s system that presents such a unique challenge.
If the diverse range of interests in the sphere of healthcare can come together to resolve the preventable disease crisis that now threatens the viability of the NHS using the model we present in our ‘blueprint’, we believe the model will work anywhere else in the world.
Let’s begin the journey together. Our press release of today explains more.
In health, naturally and sustainably
Rob Verkerk PhD
Founder, executive and scientific director
Download PDF of press release, 13 December 2018.
PRESS RELEASE
For immediate release
13 December 2018
A major report published today, the result of over 2 years of research and consultation with health professionals, researchers and citizens, argues that many of the NHS’ woes could be remedied by changing the way the UK population manages its health.
The report, A blueprint for health system sustainability in the UK, was delivered today to the Rt Hon Matt Hancock MP, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care.
“The Government’s planned £20 billion funding increase over the next 5 years will inevitably plug some of the shortfalls in healthcare delivery,” says lead author of the report, Robert Verkerk PhD, founder and executive director of the non-profit, Alliance for Natural Health (ANH) International.
Dr Verkerk continued, “But the greatest challenge facing the NHS is not just about money - it’s the sheer burden caused by preventable, chronic diseases. The solution is less about finding new ways of treating these complex diseases, and more about finding better ways of allowing us to stay healthy for longer. We need a unified language so that the public can communicate effectively and meaningfully with health and fitness professionals and be empowered in the process.”
To this end, the project team responsible for developing the ‘blueprint’ has used both the principles of sustainability and the science of ecology as key lenses through which to look at how individuals can participate more fully in optimising their health within their unique, varied and dynamic ecosystems. Focusing the greater part of healthcare inputs on complex chronic disease states is both expensive and rarely effective. Instead, a bottom-up approach is needed with much more effort expended in the community, before irreversible diseases have manifested. At the same time, health and fitness professionals need to be able to collaborate more effectively to guide individuals.
The ‘blueprint’, a 130-page, heavily referenced consensus paper endorsed by a diverse range of organisations, individuals and companies, sets out new ways in which individuals can manage multiple domains of their health. This can be done with varying levels of support or guidance from health professionals, depending on need or capacity to pay. The report also identifies 10 hallmarks of health system sustainability, including reduced reliance on pharmaceuticals and a greater focus on parameters that optimise health rather than those that simply aim to prevent disease.
In early 2019, the ANH, along with the specialist sustainability non-profit, Forum for the Future, aims to begin deliberations with the Department of Health and other parties to investigate the feasibility of evaluating the proposed approach in different community settings.
The ANH is already working alongside clinics and governments in other parts of the world to evaluate its new model of health system sustainability.
ENDS.
CONTACT
For more information, please telephone +44 (0)1306 646 600 or email [email protected].
Address: The Alliance for Natural Health International, The Atrium, Curtis Road, Dorking, Surrey RH4 1XA, UK.
NOTES TO THE EDITOR
Download full report at:
Blueprint for health system sustainability
What thought leaders say about the ANH ‘blueprint for health system sustainability’:
Giles Hutchins, Regenerative Leadership specialist, Chair of The Future Fit Leadership Academy, cofounder of Regenerators, and author of The Nature of Business (2012), The Illusion of Separation (2014) and Future Fit (2016):
"This is a time of great transformation – of simultaneous breakdown/breakthrough - affecting all aspects of our human endeavour, not least our approach to human health and wellbeing. Our present responsibility is not simply for our own health, but for future generations, and the wider fabric of life on which we all depend.
This timely, far-reaching and well-researched report lays critical foundations for future pathways towards a necessary regenerative health system that does nothing more, nor nothing less, than embody the logic of life. We humans are very much part of life, and would do well to adhere to the wisdom life bestows us.
It’s time to move beyond overly-reductive lenses that may well have served us in the Industrial era, to now see with new eyes, and recognise the holistic nature of life. Force-fitting mechanistic and reductive methods creates ever widening and deepening systemic consequences for ourselves, our future, and the rich diversity of life on Earth. We know this. The time has come to embrace the ecological principles of life, and this comprehensive report goes right to the heart of the matter. It forms a key part of the backbone of this necessary {r}evolution towards ecological consciousness."
Cheryl Thallon, Founder & Managing Director, Viridian Nutrition:
“The UK healthcare system is broken and our families are the casualties. Only a radical rethink will create a healthier future. This document assembles a truly holistic perspective, calling on historic traditions and established modern research to create a human-centred model that I believe our children and grandchildren deserve.”
Michael Ash DO, ND, BSc, RNT, Managing Director, Clinical Education:
“As a clinician, researcher and educator on functional and lifestyle medicine for over 35 years I have reviewed many proposals for inducing cultural change in behaviour to facilitate improvements in health. This document will set a new benchmark in its progressive and actionable steps for implementation and oversight.
Functional Medicine provides a comprehensive framework for one to one care, but its foundations also translate into community and national health promotion and sustainability – as the leading UK education Organisation for Functional and Lifestyle medicine, we are pleased to endorse this paper as a creative and structural blueprint for expanding personal control over health generation.”
Sebastian Pole, Master Herbsmith and co-founder Pukka Herbs, MAPA, MRCHM, MURHP:
“I salute this Blueprint for Sustainable Healthcare. We urgently need a radical change in our approach to healthcare to ensure the future health of our society. A system of healthcare that is safe, effective and affordable must include of a wide range of integrated health practices, including traditional and scientific herbalism, to serve our citizens with care, compassion and value.”
Chris Moore, Managing Director, Nordic Group:
“We have entered the epoch of personalised health. With it comes the opportunity to reassert health ownership. Who owns your health? Gone is the time when protocol management, coupled with pharmaceutical medication was going to save humanity from the vagaries of disease. There is no one size fits all in health. If there was, there would be no disease. Instead each of us is unique, if we can understand better our biochemistry along with the interactions between our genes and our environments, then we will be able to assess better what our bodies require to function optimally. With that will be a shift from disease management, to disease prevention and, most importantly, to the attainment of optimal health.
This ground-breaking document details the essence of what so many of us have spent our careers working towards - a commitment to changing healthcare. It offers, in an easily accessible language, a change to the current dogma of healthcare. Supported by compelling science, the multi-faceted approach presented in this blueprint shows how individuals can be empowered to reclaim their health. In doing so, they will relieve health care systems of the near impossible pressures on resources that threaten to make them no longer viable.
To the reader: I urge you to not read this document passively. Instead, utilise the knowledge contained within these pages to galvanise your health, and that of your families and friends. In doing so, you will be part of the much-needed revolution in how we as humans manage our health.
ABOUT THE ALLIANCE FOR NATURAL HEALTH INTERNATIONAL
The Alliance for Natural Health (ANH) International is an independent, non-governmental organisation established in 2002 that promotes and protects natural, sustainable and bio-compatible approaches to health optimisation. Our approach is based on ‘good science’ and ‘good law’ and our core activities cover campaigns, activism, research and education.
ANH-Intl’s quest to help more people optimise health by working with, rather than against nature, means we engage with a broad range of issues relating to health and disease prevention, especially those involving dietary and lifestyle modification. We support the increased adoption of scientifically validated, natural and sustainable approaches to healthcare and disease prevention, taking into account cultural needs and individual requirements. The threat of uncertainty, as well as regulatory and other pressures, including from large food and pharmaceutical lobbies, continues to limit freedom of choice in the field of natural health. At ANH, we strive to protect these freedoms along with individual empowerment and engagement.
ANH-Intl was founded by Robert Verkerk PhD, an internationally acclaimed expert in agricultural and health sustainability. Our international office is based in Dorking, UK, while our US base (www.anh-usa.org) operates out of Atlanta, GA. We collaborate with a diverse cross-section of interests, including scientists, lawyers, medical doctors, other health professionals, politicians, companies and, above all, citizens.
Comments
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13 December 2018 at 8:01 am
Robert,
The solution is not simply a change in the approach. The NHS is run by a monopoly of drug companies, physicians and charities. It was planned to be a 'health care' and instead has evolved into a profitable 'disease management' cabal.
Even when I travelled from city to city across Europe and North America in the 90s holding seminars, a common question was, ‘Would natural health solutions catch on?’
My answer then and still is, doctors and their drugs do not cure diseases, and it is not profitable for drug companies to offer cures. I also said it is only a matter of time before the fake system collapses under the weight of sick people.
I knew that smart people will eventually turn to natural health that does work (if they follow the plan correctly). The fake system has not collapsed, ’yet’, but it is bankrupting countries and upsetting the population with higher and higher taxes.
Robert, you are ideally placed to lead this revolution and as far as I know, there is no one else and you are our only hope.
No Pressure then!
I Have Amazing Support From Bankers, No Less.
Imagine my surprise to read recently that no less than the infamous Goldman Sachs, Merchant Bankers declared that:
“Drug companies would stop being profitable if their drugs actually cured people—because they would lose their market. In fact, curing people is “an unsustainable business model”.
In a report entitled “The Genome Revolution”, they wrote:
“The potential to deliver ‘one-shot cures’ is one of the most attractive aspects of gene therapy, genetically-engineered cell therapy and gene editing. However, such treatments offer a very different outlook with regard to recurring revenue versus chronic therapies. While this proposition carries tremendous value for patients and society, it could represent a challenge for genome medicine developers looking for sustained cash flow.
It Is All About Profits And The Charities Are Part Of The Scam.
The greed of drug companies who bribe doctors, politicians and take money from those who donate to charities is breath-taking. They even put into print and intimate that it is not worth investing in real cures as fake drugs are more profitable – this is cause for a revolution.
They Quoted As An Example
Gilead Sciences’ treatments for hepatitis C, achieved cure rates of more than 90 percent. The company’s U.S. sales for these hepatitis C treatments peaked at $12.5 billion in 2015, but have been falling ever since. Goldman estimates the U.S. sales for these treatments will be less than $4 billion this year.
“GILD is a case in point, where the success of its hepatitis C franchise has gradually exhausted the available pool of treatable patients. In the case of infectious diseases such as hepatitis C, curing existing patients also decreases the number of carriers able to transmit the virus to new patients, thus the incident pool also declines (and make more profit).
The Moral Of The Story?
Don’t Trust Doctors, Charities and especially Drug Companies. They are being advised by Goldman Sachs that they can make more profit by getting patients hooked on drugs rather than with a cure that reduces their profits.
The solution?
It's all political. Wake up the population to the criminality of the medical mafia. Campaign for a legal parallel real health system.
A campaign to stop the fake double-blind studies and only accept comparative studies whether it is comparing existing drug treatment or even comparing natural health treatments. An example is sepsis. Millions die every year in UK and European hospitals from sepsis yet a US study shows 87% could be saved by a simple iv of Vitamin C, Thiamine and a steroid. It should be possible to go to the law courts to demand a comparative study in UK or Europe.
If the laws of this country will not protect our families from the criminal neglect of the medical mafia then the slaughter will continue.
The law can be used to jail the seller of GcMAF even when the judge virtually admitted it works.
13 December 2018 at 1:26 pm
I notice I am triggered by the terms 'sustainable healthcare' - I read it as doublespeak in the Orwellian sense. At risk of sounding archaic, the very truth of our being is our true sustenance and the attempt to run 'our own little racket or private agenda' is the false sense of control that actually blocks awareness of our being as love - and therefore our capacity to recognize and relate truly. Sustaining illusions as if their protection is our own, because we have invested in them as our own reality and defend them through hell and high water - even unto death. What are our illusions but our judgements given power and worth-ship as true?
I wrote more but the post would not send so I try less (in case character count applies) with this link to follow through if you resonate enough to want to:
https://willingness-to-listen.blogspot.com/2018/12/i-notice-i-am-triggered-by-terms.html
13 December 2018 at 2:18 pm
I agree totally with Robert above, this whole business is a scam causing untold misery and continued sickness. When I see a UK Biotec company's executive jailed for producing GcMaf, a natural protein then I know that curing disease is not the goal of Pharmaceutical companies.
Since the first appearance of the Spanish flu, we have all become reliant on pharmaceutical "magic bullets" that we expect to work almost instantaneously yet treat the symptoms only. Every person that I know would rather get a prescription than take a natural remedy.
My local doctor once stated to me that if he didn't prescribe some medication to 99% of his patients, that he would be pilloried in the local community as being a bad and uncaring doctor. When one thinks about this, the armoury of medicines available to him for basic common illnesses is limited indeed, furthermore he is directed by our equivalent of the UK's NHS, i.e. HSE to prescribe certain medications, even though he knows that they are almost useless.
There is an uniqueness in the human species in that each and ever one of us are different. What might work for one may not work for others, and we must also take into account the placebo effect.
I believe that we must educate people in what is a good diet and what is not, for most of the younger parents do not even think about it.
My 70+ year old sister in law suffered for decades with IBS, accepting that nothing further could be done, and I was constantly advising her to try some Kefir, which I make. Eventually she gave in, and after a couple of weeks she could not believe the improvement in her condition. She got it difficult to even accept that something so natural and simple could work. This is the common wall we are up against, i.e. an absolute belief that natural remedies are voodoo medicine from the stone age.
Please keep up your pressure, because we in Ireland are seeing more and more disease and death in younger and younger people, and nobody is asking why.
In a small country graveyard in rural Ireland with no more than 100 graves, there are at least 6-10 graves of children under two, one being a grandchild of mine. It begs the question why, considering the advances in medicine and diagnostics.
If the attitude changes in the UK, we will follow suit, so I fully appreciate and support your efforts.
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