Prevention is Better than Cure – Prevent the McCann of Worms!

Keeping people physically and emotionally healthy is the best investment financially and socially for the South Australian community.

Keeping people healthy and enhancing well-being improves the quality of life for all South Australians.

Keeping people healthy actively reduces premature death.

Keeping people healthy reduces chronic diseases and health system costs associated with them.

The State Government is considering recommendations from the McCann review of Non-Hospital Based Services which include:

• cutting services that keep people healthy including older people, women, adolescents and children.
• cutting services that allow people with chronic health conditions to live independently.
• cutting services that work to combat the obesity epidemic, including ‘Community Foodies’.
• slashing up to 50% from services that are already struggling with tight budgets.
• slashing up to 50% from services that are reducing the cost (both financial and human) that would be spent on medical treatment.

These recommendations from the McCann review are short-sighted and will only increase the burden on our already over-stretched hospital system. These recommendations are not based on sound evidence.

These recommendations are also completely at odds with previous review recommendations, current Government Policy, and international health thinking which support increased investment in primary health care, particularly disease prevention and health promotion.

We all know that prevention is better than cure, so please sign this petition which calls on the State Government to reject these recommendations of the McCann review.

Prevention is better than cure, so keep people as healthy as possible and prevent the McCann of worms!