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<title><![CDATA[Hospitals are dealing with 41{degrees}C indoor temperatures]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Hospital staff are dealing with indoor temperatures of more than 41°C as the NHS struggles to provide care during the current heatwave, it has been disclosed.Responses to a freedom of information (FOI) request by the Liberal Democrats found one hospital had recorded 41°C temperatures in June, with several others reaching the high 30s.1The FOI gathered responses from 33 NHS trusts in England that had been monitoring and recording room temperatures during recent warm spells in June and July. It found that most had breached the official NHS recommended maximum safety threshold of 28°C.The Lib Dems said these temperatures were creating a “dangerous” environment for staff and patients and have called on the government to create what they called a “NHS Rapid Adaptation Unit” to heatproof the hospitals and care homes most affected by the heatwave.All of England has been subject to an amber heat health alert this week, meaning “significant...]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Adrian O&#x2019;Dowd]]></dc:creator>
<dc:date>2026-08-14T08:23:04-07:00</dc:date>
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<dc:title><![CDATA[Hospitals are dealing with 41{degrees}C indoor temperatures]]></dc:title>
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<title><![CDATA[Scaling up malaria vaccines in Africa]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Sustained investment in malaria control has more than halved the global malaria mortality rate over the past 25 years and reduced incidence by 19%. However, this falls short of global targets of a 75% reduction in both rates by 2025 compared with 2015 levels, hampered by increasing levels of drug and insecticide resistance.12As Sorgho et al highlight, incorporating malaria vaccines into an integrated malaria control strategy (encompassing vector control, chemoprevention, diagnosis, and treatment1) could significantly accelerate progress.3 WHO currently recommends two vaccines, RTS,S and R21/Matrix-M (R21), with more under development seeking to interrupt disease transmission or reduce disease burden through other mechanisms.3 However, developing and manufacturing vaccines is only a starting point; translating these breakthroughs into sustained population-level impact requires effective, efficient, and equitable delivery through countries’ health systems while engaging communities to build awareness and trust.4Since WHO’s recommendations, the introduction of these vaccines has been one of the most...]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gillian Turner, Caroline Bonareri Osoro, George Okello, Nicola Desmond]]></dc:creator>
<dc:date>2026-08-14T07:02:16-07:00</dc:date>
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<dc:title><![CDATA[Scaling up malaria vaccines in Africa]]></dc:title>
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<title><![CDATA[Medical schools risk conflating compliance with professionalism]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[“It sometimes feels like [what medical schools] should be taking seriously, sexual assault, racism and sexism … are often not taken seriously enough … while minor petty things are taken too seriously.” These are the words of a respondent to our recent BMA survey on students’ experience of medical school professionalism standards.1 They speak to a serious concern echoed throughout the survey—that professionalism is being reduced to a tick box exercise at the cost of its intended purpose.The medical profession relies on public trust, so there is a high bar for how doctors are expected to behave. We must always act with integrity and advocate for our patients’ wellbeing. This is why professionalism standards were built into training at medical school—so we act like doctors from the outset. But our new BMA report, based on a UK wide survey of 2573 medical students, shows the current approach to professionalism is...]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Katie Diss, Callum Williams]]></dc:creator>
<dc:date>2026-08-14T06:57:10-07:00</dc:date>
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<dc:title><![CDATA[Medical schools risk conflating compliance with professionalism]]></dc:title>
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<title><![CDATA[Organ donation service that tried to take organs from &#x201C;thrashing and crying&#x201D; patient is decertified]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A US service that tried to harvest the organs of a man despite him “thrashing on the bed” and showing key signs of life has been decertified.US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr stripped the Kentucky based organ donation service Network for Hope of its permission to operate because of the controversy.Kennedy announced the decertification, or firing, on 5 August,1 after a year long investigation that led to plans to reform the US organ procurement and donation system. He said that Network for Hope had endangered patients and had not fixed safety problems despite opportunities to improve.2 The organisation said it would appeal.Controversy surrounding the service erupted in 2021 when Anthony Thomas Hoover II was being treated in hospital after a drug overdose and his family was told he was brain dead and would not recover.The family then authorised donation of his organs. But as Hoover was being removed from...]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Janice Hopkins Tanne]]></dc:creator>
<dc:date>2026-08-14T04:31:38-07:00</dc:date>
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<dc:title><![CDATA[Organ donation service that tried to take organs from &#x201C;thrashing and crying&#x201D; patient is decertified]]></dc:title>
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<title><![CDATA[RSV vaccination programme may have halved numbers of baby admissions to ICU]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) admissions of newborn infants to intensive care units (ICUs) in England seem to have halved after a national vaccination programme.UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) figures from 2025-26 show a more than 50% fall in RSV related admissions of newborns in the first full year of the RSV maternal vaccine programme.1The programme began in September 2024 in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland (August 2024 in Scotland), but its full impact on reducing the number of cases and severity of RSV in infants was not expected to be seen until last winter (2025-26). This is because more pregnant women became eligible over the course of the past year.RSV causes bronchiolitis in babies, which can make it hard for them to breathe and feed, so some need life support in an ICU. The RSV vaccine is provided on the NHS to pregnant women and older adults through GP surgeries...]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Adrian O&#x2019;Dowd]]></dc:creator>
<dc:date>2026-08-14T03:21:46-07:00</dc:date>
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<dc:subject><![CDATA[Emergency medicine, Infectious diseases, Obstetrics and gynaecology, UK]]></dc:subject>
<dc:title><![CDATA[RSV vaccination programme may have halved numbers of baby admissions to ICU]]></dc:title>
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<title><![CDATA[Healthcare must be built around patients, not profits]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Patients are continually let down by health services that aren’t built around their needs. Inertia or the challenge of delivering change may mean that services are stuck in their old ways. For instance, patients in England face unnecessary risks because cosmetic surgery can still legally be performed by doctors without specialist surgical qualifications (doi:10.1136/bmj-2026-100528).1 Royal colleges, specialist surgical associations, and patient safety organisations have asked ministers to close this “serious regulatory gap,” a year after the government promised to take action.And clinicians working in orthopaedic services continue to overlook domestic violence injuries, despite training being available to help staff recognise indicators of abuse, even subtle ones. Improving the recognition and response to domestic violence would, Shady Hermena argues, require “minor structural adjustments to current service models” in orthopaedic centres (doi:10.1136/bmj-2026-100494).2Patients may be let down by services not shifting quickly enough to meet changing needs. James Parsonage and colleagues argue that...]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom Moberly]]></dc:creator>
<dc:date>2026-08-13T08:56:16-07:00</dc:date>
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<dc:title><![CDATA[Healthcare must be built around patients, not profits]]></dc:title>
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