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UK day-surgery guidance names frailty explicitly for the first time at this scale
A UK Delphi-consensus statement embeds frailty, obesity and obstructive sleep apnoea explicitly into peri-operative patient selection for day surgery.
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£343m expansion of community mental health centres will only work if staffed by psychologists, professional body warns
The UK government has committed £343m to up to 159 new NHS mental health facilities in England, but the British Psychological Society says the expansion will only succeed if centres are staffed with practitioner psychologists rather than built on new estate alone.
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World Stroke Organisation issues new scientific statement on vascular cognitive impairment
An international expert statement sets out new diagnostic criteria and management guidance for vascular cognitive impairment, including its overlap with post-stroke cognitive decline.