- NHS
The Today Podcast, Doom, Gloom and the NHS
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0022sxh
NHS 'broken' by past governments, Starmer tells BBC
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1m0vxxk7yno
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/sep/11/long-nhs-delays-thousands-unnecessary-deaths-inquiry
The NHS - 1.3 million employees. It's also the 3rd largest employer in the world, after the Chinese army and the Indian railway service. What does the UK manufacture?31 Aug 2021
Total healthcare expenditure as a share of GDP in the United Kingdom from 1980 to 2023
https://www.statista.com/statistics/317708/healthcare-expenditure-as-a-share-of-gdp-in-the-united-kingdom/
Doctors' wages: Which countries in Europe pay medics the highest and lowest salaries?
https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/08/11/doctors-salaries-which-countries-pay-the-most-and-least-in-europe
The report's key findings
Lord Darzi's report – commissioned by the government – was the result of a nine-week review of the NHS in England. Here are some of the key findings:
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The NHS is struggling after the pandemic and falling short of targets for cancer, A&E and hospital treatments
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This has contributed to poor survival rates for cancer and heart disease
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Waiting times for hospital procedures have "ballooned" and there's been a surge in the waiting lists for mental health services
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The health service was weakened by the austerity of the 2010s, the report says
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It warns rising levels of illness are risking economic prosperity, with 2.8 million people unable to work because of poor health
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Lord Darzi says: "Although I have worked in the NHS for more than 30 years, I have been shocked by what I have found during this investigation – not just in the health service, but in the state of the nation’s health"
- Lucy Letby
Hearings begin as Lucy Letby inquiry seeks answers
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgq2weyn1v7o
Tenacious' doctors stopped Letby's return to ward
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c623p5y65w7o
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0?ui=2&ik=215bc1358b&attid=0.0.1&permmsgid=msg-f:1804469951244863239&th=190ac3dc33d10707&view=att&disp=inline
Lucy Letby and miscarriages of justice: some words of caution on why we should always be alert to the possibilities of miscarriages of justice
Calls to free Lucy Letby fuelled by ‘lies and misinformation’, say parents
https://www.thetimes.com/article/7b34b197-a683-4dab-b97e-984165dc8586?shareToken=5ad65df76e93d0f2ac0cec9f0aa432f6
Lucy Letby: another miscarriage of justice driven by courts’ failure to grasp statistics?
https://www.thejusticegap.com/is-lucy-letby-another-miscarriage-driven-by-courts-failure-to-grasp-stats/
Court clears man with severe learning difficulties of 1990 London murder
https://www.theguardian.com/law/article/2024/sep/11/appeal-court-clears-man-with-severe-learning-difficulties-of-1990-london
- Early Release Prisoners.
Early release prisoner says 'there's nowhere to go'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2e8799n34o
- World order collapsing.
World order 'under threat not seen since Cold War'
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2gz4re394o
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Sudan
Our future is over': Forced to flee by a year of war
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cewlrxrk5p5o
Sudanese rebels appear to be posting self-incriminating videos of torture and arson on social media
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/sep/11/videos-rebels-sudan-footage-courts
Ignoring Sudan could prove a deadly mistake
The civil war in Sudan receives “a fraction of the attention given to Gaza and Ukraine”, says The Economist, yet it threatens to be “deadlier than either”. Some 150,000 people are thought to have died already – makeshift cemeteries are “visible from space” – and another 10 million, a fifth of the population, have been displaced. Experts predict that the looming famine could leave as many as 2.5 million dead by the end of the year. The “once-bustling” capital, Khartoum, is in ruins. And the fighting itself, spearheaded by two unscrupulous warlords, is truly horrific: civilians under constant bombardment; children being recruited as soldiers; credible reports of “mass rape and genocide”.
Yet the rest of the world doesn’t seem that fussed. Middle Eastern states and Russia are arming and funding the belligerents “with impunity”; US officials shrug that they’re “too busy dealing with China, Gaza and Ukraine”. This is a grave mistake “on grounds of both morality and self-interest”. The chaos will almost certainly extend beyond Sudan’s territory: it has “porous borders” with seven fragile states and 800km of coastline on the Red Sea, which is crucial to the Suez Canal trade route. Many of the country’s refugees are ending up in Europe, at a time when migration is an increasingly incendiary issue: already 60% of those in the camps in Calais are Sudanese. No one can easily “put Sudan back together”; the damage done by more than 500 days of “pitiless fighting” will take decades to repair. But by acting now, we could still save millions of lives – “and reduce the chance of calamitous geopolitical aftershocks”.
- No Fault Evections – will it help or hinder the housing crisis?
Aim for no-fault eviction ban to be in place by summer
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz9wd5dvknxo
Will a renters rights bill reduce the number of properties for rent?
Aim for no-fault eviction ban to be in place by summer
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz9wd5dvknxo
Bill banning no-fault evictions to return to Parliament
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj35d1pldggo
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