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<p>A new King’s College London scanning study of 390 babies has shown distinct patterns between term and pre-term babies in the moment-to-moment activity and connectivity of brain networks.</p>
Child health is being betrayed, and the physical and mental health of children is in appalling decline. This verdict belongs not to a fortune hunting social media influencer but to a new report from the Academy of Medical Sciences (doi:10.1136/bmj.q313).1 The UK was recently ranked 30 out of 49 Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development countries on infant mortality. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation estimates that the number of children experiencing destitution tripled to around one million over five years (jrf.org.uk/deep-poverty-and-destitution/destitution-in-the-uk-2023).2 The academy’s report calls for urgent action to tackle workforce issues and social determinants, to name but two factors that are damaging children’s long term health and life chances.
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A National Health Service dentist opening recently in Bristol had a queue down the street from early on its first day, and police warning many in the queue that they had no hope of getting in to sign on before the dentist shut. NHS waiting lists are still at a catastrophic level. More and more people who can scrape together a few thousand pounds are going to private hospitals for treatments like hip replacements because they would have to wait so long for the NHS.