💡Conclusion:

Early-years interventions, such as Sure Start, provide a lifeline for the most vulnerable children in society. Investment in early-years is key, with lifelong benefit thereafter. It is an investment in a fairer and more equitable society.

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🟢Neurodevelopmental Disorders: significantly improved symptoms of ADHD and Conduct Disorder, with long-term clinical stabilisation of symptoms. Utilised successfully as an agency for developmental delay screening.

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Findings:

🟢Physical Health: reduction in obesity, hospital admissions, accidental injury, increase in breastfeeding. Improved dental hygiene.

🟢Social Function: better school academic performance, social functioning (some caveats for certain subgroups).

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Background:

👉🏾Sure Start was created in 1999, a flagship New Labour policy.

👉🏾Aim: generate health, reduce social disadvantage, and address stark inequality .

👉🏾Since 2010/Austerity, Sure Start Centres have declined by 1416, usually in the most deprived areas.

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This appointment has nothing to do with merit nor “Medical Education and Standards”.

It’s driven by ideological alignment: a contempt for the field of Medicine, contempt for patients, and entrenching inequity and injustice.

GMC, 2024: Formalised Quackery.

And of course, facilitating the, all but in name, “regulation” of Physician Associates by the GMC.

Presiding over “Continued Professional Development events” for PAs, who apparently are not subject to career development — a justification for earning £14,000 more than qualified Doctors.

Here is an extract of recent evidence given by Prof Mangat, ironically, at an inquiry into a national scandal: Infected Blood Products.

Apparently, “postgraduate training in Medicine” also includes MAPs: people who haven’t studied a single day of Medicine in their lives.

“Upskilling other healthcare professionals to carry out tasks typically done by consultants…”

In some respects, I’m glad the career of certain sell-out Consultants, enabling this deadly experiment, is under siege. Needless to say, it’s our patients who will inevitably suffer.