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The so-called ‘specialist’ care units that swallow up vital NHS funds
A new report highlights how patients are being moved ‘out of area’ to private-sector units at massive cost and with minimal evidence of improvement to health. RUTH HUNT reports
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Tensions have once again escalated between Egypt and Ethiopia over GERD, Africa’s largest hydroelectric project, and now Trump has offered to mediate. NICHOLAS MWANGI reports
The National Education Union general secretary speaks to Ben Chacko on growing calls to protect children from a toxic online culture
While Iranians take to the streets en masse to protest sky-high inflation, Trump and Netanyahu are threatening military intervention. The Iranian population is trapped between a repressive regime, a suffocating economic war from the outside, and a history of dark alliances, argues MARC VANDEPITTE
Unison Scotland’s BRENDA AITCHISON says her union won’t tolerate further cuts to public services
A REPORT from the British and Irish Group for the Study of Personality Disorder (BIGSPD) highlights the problematic practice of moving patients out-of-area to so-called “specialist” personality disorder residential units in the private sector, with massive costs and no oversight, that could be better diverted to improve local NHS mental health services.
Far too many patients on mental health wards who have the contentious catch-all diagnosis of borderline personality disorder are still being moved hundreds of miles away into residential and sometimes locked placements in the private sector they are told are “specialist” personality disorder units.
Concern about this practice has been raised by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and Rethink, among other organisations.
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