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Alexandra Naa Aduwah Lyyli Ankrah @alexankrah.bsky.social · 1h

But the stats sadly don’t tell us, what contribution COVID19 infection & an inflammatory disease is making to early mortality of people with diabetes, obesity, hypertension, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, Keloid Disorder. We don’t know if it’s one of many Oncovirus - & cancer linked?

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Healthwatch @healthwatch.bsky.social · 1h

Think the hospital Covid patients are largely elderly- so I am told. That would run with decision based on elderly having higher chance of being hospitalised with Covid. Is a JCVI paper on it. Elderly are vaccination group. My partner has not been vaccinated and is caring for Covid patients

Healthwatch @healthwatch.bsky.social · 1h

Partner working shift in hospital mentions how there is shortage of isolation rooms for infectious patients. Also increasing number of Covid patients.

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Healthwatch @healthwatch.bsky.social · 1h

But likely to need a lot more care workers a lot sooner- say another 100,000 - 120,000 by 2030? If their assumptions are correct

Healthwatch @healthwatch.bsky.social · 2h

Projected that social care will need 470 thousand more workers by 20240 but remains reliant on significant overseas recruitment while without wider reform of the sector and a government backed workforce strategy
www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/ca...

Care sector’s reliance on overseas workers increasingly risky

Natasha Curry responds to new analysis from Skills for Care.

www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk

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Healthwatch @healthwatch.bsky.social · 3h

Push to introduce prostate cancer screening. Though skates over the PSA test inaccuracy problem
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Prostate cancer screening would help reduce inequalities for ‘modest’ cost

Introducing a prostate cancer screening programme for high-risk men would help to reduce health inequalities

healthcareleadernews.com

Healthwatch @healthwatch.bsky.social · 3h

UK gov report on health effects of climate change published late last year highlighted how the climate crisis is also a health crisis as flooding and heatwaves create conditions which heighten the risk from infectious diseases. So more pandemics and pressure on NHS
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Britain must urgently prepare for hotter temperatures, climate advisers warn

Britain must urgently prepare for global warming of at least 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels by 2050, its climate advisers said on Wednesday, warning the country is ill-prepared for extreme weather that is already occurring.

www.reuters.com

Healthwatch @healthwatch.bsky.social · 3h

‘A 2021 meta analysis across multiple longitudinal studies found that individuals with a strong sense of purpose had lower levels of inflammation, better cardiovascular health, and improved immune function.’
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A life fully lived paradoxically reduces the fear of death | Dr Julie Hannan

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Healthwatch @healthwatch.bsky.social · 8h

Israel cuts aid into Gaza and the killing continues. The embers of war still glow hot
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...

Israel imposes new Gaza aid restrictions as truce comes under strain

Israeli forces kill several Palestinians in Gaza as the Israel-Hamas ceasefire comes under growing strain.

www.aljazeera.com

Healthwatch @healthwatch.bsky.social · 8h

Some lite reading Ms Reeves
www.reuters.com/commentary/b...

Breakingviews - The case for a big, one-off wealth tax

Cash-strapped Western states must invest in their militaries and green energy. With the top 1% increasing its grip on wealth, and paying little tax, soaking the rich looks justified. But a chunky one-off levy makes more sense than an annual charge, which is vulnerable to dodging.

www.reuters.com

Healthwatch @healthwatch.bsky.social · 17h

Might be of interest
iai.tv/articles/you...

Cancer screening is selling us sickness | H. Gilbert Welch

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Healthwatch @healthwatch.bsky.social · 18h

A high number of false positives can lead to an inflated level of incidence as well as many more ’successful’ treatments that go with that. But on verge of becoming an area for major NHS investment in AI - Sunak, coincidentally, is an advisor to an AI firm, Anthropic.

Healthwatch @healthwatch.bsky.social · 18h

It’s expensive management consultancy speak. No doubt a product of some highly paid private sector advisors embedded in the DHSC

Healthwatch @healthwatch.bsky.social · 18h

Covid has fallen to number 20 on list of global causes of death. Those old pre-pandemic killers ischaemic heart disease and stroke are back top of the list
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Health progress in a post-COVID-19 world

The COVID-19 pandemic upended global mortality and morbidity. COVID-19 was ranked as the number one age-standardised cause of death globally in 2021 but by 2023 had dropped to the 20th cause of death ...

www.thelancet.com

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Healthwatch @healthwatch.bsky.social · 19h

Musk just needs a chimp to stick in his space ship
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins

Far-right activist is accused of refusing to comply with counter-terrorism police request at Channel tunnel

www.theguardian.com

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Healthwatch @healthwatch.bsky.social · 21h

A 2022 LSE policy document found that under current policies total cost of climate change damage would be 3.3% of GDP by 2050. Climate change is happening, here and now
www.gov.uk/government/n...

Deprived communities to get new flood defences faster

A record £10.5 billion investment in flood defences will defend nearly 900,000 properties in England, with new rules to get defences built more quickly.

www.gov.uk

Healthwatch @healthwatch.bsky.social · 21h

Not going to happen in uk. At least not under this government. Not only unaffordable under current government financial constraints but also political suicide.

Healthwatch @healthwatch.bsky.social · 21h

Could Labour come to regret renationalising railways and steel industry? Might have made a rod for their own back at time they are also pressed for cash while in not so distant future they will be ones blamed for late or cancelled trains and any steel plant failure or redundancies.

Healthwatch @healthwatch.bsky.social · 22h

It is inflation, cost of living, jobs and NHS, that will decide the next election. Reform clowns have no realistic ideas or answers to these, as their tax and spending plans showed, that is why they keep pedalling the tired and distracting anti-migrant stuff.
www.reuters.com/business/ret...

UK grocery inflation accelerates to 5.2%, says Worldpanel

British grocery inflation rose to 5.2% in the four weeks to October 5, industry data showed on Tuesday, adding to pressure on consumers already facing higher energy bills.

www.reuters.com

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Healthwatch @healthwatch.bsky.social · 22h

How scrapping our net zero plans will cost a great deal of money in the long run not save it. Get it Farage?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Towns may have to be abandoned due to floods with millions more homes in Great Britain at risk

Every constituency projected to be at greater risk, with many areas likely to be uninsurable, Guardian investigation finds

www.theguardian.com

Healthwatch @healthwatch.bsky.social · 1d

Lot to suggest prostate cancer screening might do at least as much harm as good. With current PSA test screening tool
considered unreliable and producing far too many false positives and having little impact on reducing cancer deaths when used on population wide screening
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Rishi Sunak: Prostate cancer screening urgently needed

The former prime minister tells the BBC it is time to introduce targeted screening of some younger men.

www.bbc.com

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Healthwatch @healthwatch.bsky.social · 1d

Fingers crossed the old bugger is right and not just full of his usual bulls..t and hubris. At least Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners free. But is a reported Israeli air attack on a Gaza hospital early Monday morning killing at least four and wounding dozens
www.ft.com/content/c6a2...

Hamas releases final hostages as Trump hails ‘historic dawn’ in Middle East

Israel frees more than 1,900 Palestinian prisoners as first phase of peace plan is implemented

www.ft.com

Healthwatch @healthwatch.bsky.social · 1d

NHS England’s elective, emergency care and mental health teams being ‘axed’ and their staff and functions merged into the ‘Getting it Right First Time Programme’
Seems less of ‘axe’, more ‘furniture shuffling’ and relabelling. Anyway NHSE cannot afford redundancies
www.hsj.co.uk/emergency-ca...

NHSE’s improvement teams axed

NHS England's elective, emergency care and mental health improvement support teams are being axed - and their staff and functions merged into the Getting it Right First Time programme, HSJ has learne...

www.hsj.co.uk

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Healthwatch @healthwatch.bsky.social · 1d

www.newscientist.com/article/2499...

Therapy may be the most effective way to ease irritable bowel syndrome

People with irritable bowel syndrome are often only given treatments like cognitive behavioural therapy after others have failed, but research suggests this approach is more effective than we thought

www.newscientist.com

Healthwatch @healthwatch.bsky.social · 1d

Will find that people who bitch about NHS are not the ones actually using it. As the latest Friends and Family Test results based on many millions of NHS service users. Overwhelmingly positive. Presumably JC is now one of these

www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/u...

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