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Indeed, people with diabetes who took the drugs (known as GLP-1 agonists) had a lower risk of developing 42 diseases including a 22 per cent lower risk of a cardiac arrest, according a recent study in Nature Medicine.
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Women's health campaigners want results for pelvic mesh victims
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Detained migrants deprived of medicines, report says
The health of detained migrants is put at risk because their medication is confiscated at ports and airports, a report has Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) inspected facilities at Bristol and Cardiff airports and at Newhaven, Poole and Portsmouth ports, where migrants can be detained for up to 24 for assessing and treating health conditions at all sites was inadequate, the South and West Short-Term Holding Facilities IMB Border Force, which runs the units and has refused to comment, was found by inspectors to be treating those in detention well. In their annual report, IMB inspectors said: "The current arrangements, where possession of medication is not allowed... may present risks to health."On one occasion, a new arrival at Bristol Airport was prevented from taking post-operation antibiotics, they holding unit had no hot water or soap, while the one in Poole had no heating at all, inspectors Bristol, there were no plans to expand the detention unit in line with the approved increase in the number of airport passengers, they IMB said Border Force (BF) had sometimes hampered the work of said: "BF have consistently failed to give the IMB access to detention records, primarily at Poole and Cardiff."In addition, during the year the IMB access to the offices at Poole was withdrawn."The board's chair, Di Askwith, said: "People in immigration detention can be anxious and vulnerable and may have had a challenging journey to reach that point."Our observations indicated that people in detention were being treated well by Border Force. However, we would like to see more consistent record keeping and for the IMB to be able to access all records."Bristol was the busiest site in the year to the end of January, with 356 detentions for longer than two were 63 detentions in Portsmouth, 12 in Cardiff, eight in Newhaven and two in number was lower than the previous year when 582 people were detained, according to Border Force.
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GPs cut appointments after computer problems in Nottinghamshire
Some GPs say surgeries in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire have cut down appointments as they deal with computer problems impacting the delivery of blood test results. Practices have complained of being "bombarded" with duplicate blood test results after new IT systems were introduced at hospital pathology labs in the city and Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) said it had made some progress sorting out the difficulties and was continuing to liaise with doctors. Dr Carter Singh, a GP at the Willowbrook Medical Practice in Sutton-in-Ashfield, said the problems receiving test results had created "extra stress and workload for doctors who are already stretched". In the first week since the new information technology systems at pathology labs went live, there have been a series of problems reporting blood test results to GP computer software needed updating because the old software used at the pathology labs based at the Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham City Hospital and King's Mill Hospital in Ashfield was no longer supported. This is not the first time there have been issues around information technology used for blood tests. In September 2024, Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) NHS Trust declared a critical incident because of computer problems. Dr Singh said one of the biggest problems had been working out what results had been sent to GPs electronically from the labs. He said: "Rather than one test result coming through, we have been dealing with duplicated results and others sometimes sent four or five times, [that are] exactly the same results. "It takes a lot of effort and energy to file and navigate and it means less time for patients." The Nottinghamshire Local Medical Committee (LMC), which represents local GPs, stressed it is continuing to work to resolve problems. Michael Wright, the LMC chief executive, said: "It is frustrating that practices were reassured the new system would work … it is causing so many problems." He understood the testing of the system was made on "dummy patients" - and only when it went live for real patients did problems said one GP was starting work early at 4.30am to get on top of the difficulties ahead of seeing patients, a situation Mr Wright concluded is "clearly unsustainable".He added some practices had declared a "black alert" status, meaning they were struggling to maintain their normal levels of Wright said he was not aware that patient safety had so far been compromised but concluded "the time needed to deal with these issues has to come from somewhere".He understood some surgeries have been forced to reduce the number of appointments offered as they grapple with computer problems and, if issues persist, that may have to continue. 'Significant progress' In a statement, Caroline Goulding, director of Primary Care at NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire, said: "We have experienced some issues following the launch of new IT systems in the pathology departments at Nottingham University Hospitals and Sherwood Forest Hospitals on 30 June."This has been impacting the way blood test results are reported to GP practices. Whilst this has not affected the accuracy and quality of the tests, it has, regrettably, led to practices requiring extra time to process and study those results due to the way they have been provided."The ICB and hospital leaders have been working with GP representatives to work through these problems at speed and significant progress has been made."The new IT systems were required to replace an old system which was no longer being supported by the supplier and, as with many projects of this size and complexity, this can sometimes lead to some short-term disruption."We are sorry for the significant impact this has had on our GP practices and are grateful for their continued hard work and support during this."
