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From the Bureau Editor
Thursday Sept 29
Last night, Panorama exposed appalling abuse at a Manchester mental health unit, dangerous hospital roofs won’t be fixed until 2035 and the Association of Anaesthetists warns of a looming shortage of their numbers.
Angus Wrixon Editor
the briefing
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Headlining today
NHS Policy / Performance / Service redesign / £
Health professionals should not let fears about sharing personal data “stand in the way” of reporting patients at risk of ”being groomed into terrorist activity”, new government guidance HSJ
Workforce
Warning that there will be a shortage of anaesthetists as the ageing workforce retire Times
Clinical
Altzheimer’s drug breakthrough - lecanemab is designed to remove clumps of toxic beta-amyloid proteins that build up in the affected brains BBC
Mental health
Panorama uncovers abuse of patients in Manchester unit - the harrowing programme is here BBC
Mental health policies for drug users not being followed in Scotland Guardian
An independent mental health facility, Sherwood Lodge in Weston-Super-Mare, is challenging an “inadequate” CQC rating, and said it will use “the full extent of the law” to do so HSJ
Public health
YouGov health survey portrays nation of tired, overweight layabouts - the survey questioned a sample of 1,000 people in eight countries: the UK, France, Italy, Spain, Chile, Australia, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates. Britons are more depressed, fatter and do less exercise - but smoke less. The research was commissioned by Allurion, a medical technology company that makes swallowable gastric balloons Times
Trusts
Dangerous hospital roofs - those built with reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) - ‘will not be fixed until 2035’ Guardian
IT/Tech
The NHS app has been downloaded 30 million times, with many people using it to spell out their preferences on organ donation BBC
what the bloggers are blogging
NEW! Health Inequalities: Complete Care Community Programme - seven Public Health Fellows appointed to support the CCCP sites in the South-West, bringing their experience and expertise and building the capacity and capabilities in sites to deliver CCCP
NEW! Can the NHS learn from the German system? Hugh Pym
NEW! Why Coffey's NHS plan has left many unimpressed Nick Triggle
NEW! The Guardian view on the NHS: a brutal winter is coming
NEW! Instead of helping desperate NHS doctors like me, Thérèse Coffey is sticking in the boot - Rachel Clarke
NEW! Who’s to blame for 12 years’ desecration of our NHS? Doctors, says Thérèse Coffey says Polly Toynbee
NEW! Fixing the NHS: Why we must stop normalising the unacceptable - Academy of Medical Royal Colleges’ report
NEW! Public perceptions of health and social care: what the new government should know - like: The public is pessimistic about the state of the NHS. The majority (55%) think the general standard of care has got worse in the past 12 months Health Foundation
NEW! This new government must view the nation’s health and care system as an asset worth investing in Health Foundation
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