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WHAT THE STUDY ACTUALLY SAYS

Open Dialogue missed its primary endpoint. It still cut inpatient admissions.

The ODDESSI trial ran in 30 clusters across five NHS trusts in England. Time to relapse was unchanged; inpatient admission, re-referral and service-user ratings all moved in Open Dialogue's favour.

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The NHS recorded its three busiest months ever, with wards hitting nearly 42°C

England's A&E departments handled 2.5 million attendances in July alone. Nursing staff say wards without air conditioning are becoming an occupational-safety problem, not just a patient-comfort one.

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ANALYSIS

Five NHS pulse oximeters read high on darker skin, and the misses cluster there

An 11,018-measurement study in 24 English intensive care units found false negative rates up to 35.3 percentage points higher in patients with darker skin tones. A neonatal study published two days later did not.

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Temperature costs the NHS 3% of everything it spends — and cold is two thirds of it

Twelve years of English primary care records put a price on weather. The heat effect is loud and short; the cold effect is quiet, cumulative, and much larger.

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ANALYSIS

AI came to 26 NHS stroke units. Thrombectomy doubled — and rose at the other 81 too

England ran the closest thing to a national test of clinical AI anyone has published. The software sites gained more, but the comparison sites were improving on their own, and that gap is the whole result.

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