Radar in the broadcast of Monday, October 2, 2023, pays attention to, among other things, the effectiveness of medicines. What are the chances that your medicine actually works? Why do applications to the Temporary Energy Emergency Fund not proceed smoothly? And rather took Radar the test on the sum at PostNL, no signature was required for receipt of registered letters, did the postal company keep its promise?
How effective is a drug?
We all know that a medicine can cause side effects. These are described in detail in the package leaflet. But what is not stated in the package leaflet is how effective the medicine is. If you take a paracetamol, your headache will disappear and if you take a blood pressure reducer, your blood pressure will drop. You would think that a medicine always has an effect. But that is not the case. For every person for whom the medicine does work, data show that there are sometimes dozens of people for whom it does not work, the so-called Numbers Needed to Treat. As a patient you are entitled to this information, but from a survey of Radar Among 21,000 drug users, 90% appear not to know the so-called Numbers Needed to Treat at all. Monday into Radar we explain to you how effective certain preventive medicines are. And how will the patient be better informed about this in the future?
Registered letters without signature
And Fons sent twenty registered letters in March, of which no less than eighty percent were delivered without a signature by the recipient. PostNL director Bob van Ireland promised that in six months things would be ‘a lot, lot, lot, lot better’. Fons once again tests the sum, has PostNL fulfilled its promise?
Complaints about Temporary Energy Emergency Fund
The Temporary Energy Emergency Fund will be extended. The emergency fund helped people with a small wallet to pay their energy bill, partly with money from the government and partly with money from energy suppliers. But despite the extension, thousands of people are still waiting for clarity on their applications. So speaks Radar Henk and Jimmy who both applied and now, six months later, still don’t know where they stand. And contact with the emergency fund is not going smoothly. How can they have to wait so long?
Watch the broadcast of Radar on Monday, October 2 at 8:25 PM on NPO2.
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