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Pharmacies in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland are set to join GPs in taking collective action over their funding, amid warnings that hundreds of businesses will be forced to close because of the financial impact of the government’s recent budget bmj.com/content/387/bm…

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Plans to create a national social care service in Scotland, once described as the most ambitious reform of public services since the NHS's foundation, are in disarray. The Scottish government has been forced to abandon its proposed legislative schedule bmj.com/content/387/bm…

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Inadequate vaccination coverage drove the number of measles cases to an estimated 10.3 million worldwide in 2023, the World Health Organization and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have said in a joint report @WHO @USCDC bmj.com/content/387/bm…

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A Canadian adolescent is in a critical condition in a British Columbia hospital after becoming infected with a new genotype of H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza bmj.com/content/387/bm…

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14 Nov

Should GPs be allowed to offer private services to their patients? Some GPs think that patients should be free to choose how they access care, others believe that offering private appointments would lead to a two tier system, @ingridtorjesen reports bmj.com/content/387/bm…

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14 Nov

Meaningful progress to mitigate the #climate crisis and improve health systems will only be possible with a commitment to equity, justice, and inclusion, say @ArthurSaitabau @Nachilala @afrodoc_ @johanna_riha @Rvandepas #COP29 #COP29Azerbaijan bmj.com/content/387/bm…

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14 Nov

A House of Lords committee has called on the government and NHS England to act to reduce preterm births and provide greater support for the parents of babies born before 37 weeks bmj.com/content/387/bm…

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14 Nov

The UK government is to press ahead with adding folic acid to flour to try to prevent hundreds of babies each year from being born with neural tube defects bmj.com/content/387/bm…

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14 Nov

Studies suggest that over a period of some 17 years, medical harm may have continuously affected as many as one in three or one in four patients in US hospitals. After all these years, why has patient safety not improved? @hhask bmj.com/content/387/bm…

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14 Nov

The rise and rise of semaglutide in the treatment for obesity, with or without type 2 diabetes, means that the question of its safety is paramount. @drannrobinson1 looks at new studies on this and other topics bmj.com/content/387/bm…

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14 Nov

Outsourcing adult social care services in England to the private sector since the 1980s has led to worse care and should be rolled back, argue @BenGoodair and colleagues bmj.com/content/387/bm…

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14 Nov

The current system for delivering NHS cardiovascular disease health checks is not working effectively and must be reviewed to ensure that it reaches people with the highest risk, the National Audit Office @NAOorguk has said bmj.com/content/387/bm…

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14 Nov

Adverse events affect more than a third of adults undergoing surgery, finds a study of admissions to 11 hospitals in the US state of Massachusetts. And a majority are preventable, emphasising need for ongoing improvement in patient safety, say researchers bmj.com/content/387/bm…

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13 Nov

"We need to have deeper discussions about whether to operate, how patients can prepare well, and how to improve perioperative care." GPs and geriatricians can help to improve shared decision making for surgical patients, writes @scarlettmcnally bmj.com/content/387/bm…

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13 Nov

Obituary: Malcolm Donaldson, paediatric endocrinologist and proud collaborator with wife Julia, author of much loved children's books including The Gruffalo. Malcolm pioneered treatment for children with growth disorders and was also a talented musician bmj.com/content/387/bm…

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13 Nov

"We’re the only clinicians who take accountability for the longitudinal care of patients with chronic pain symptoms, and ultimately we’re experts in the whole person." @RammyaMathew on why GPs should be able to request MRI scans bmj.com/content/387/bm…

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13 Nov

The government is set to introduce a public league table to rank NHS providers in England and reward the top performers, including by allowing them to keep budget surpluses and choose how they reinvest that money bmj.com/content/387/bm…

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13 Nov

NHS staff felt the “strain and the trauma” of having to look after patients with covid-19 whose close family and relatives could not be there to offer support, NHS England’s national medical director has told the UK’s covid inquiry bmj.com/content/387/bm…

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13 Nov

"As an older person living with diabetes, I am apprehensive about the current and future care of older people with diabetes in UK nursing and residential care homes." We must improve carers’ skills in #diabetes management and technology, @scivier_martin bmj.com/content/387/bm…

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Concerns are mounting over whether the NHS can meet key performance targets this winter, NHS Providers has said, after a survey of trust leaders highlighted pressure on hospitals, ambulance services, and community and mental health teams bmj.com/content/387/bm…