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Most people who are obese have an underlying food addiction, which is not adequately addressed with surgery alone. Few people who undergo these surgeries get the behavioral and psychological interventions they need to help them change their eating habits. Hence many of them resume eating in unhealthy ways, expand their now smaller stomachs, and end

These fundamental differences in governance, funding and accountability have bedevilled attempts to get the NHS and social care to work together more closely. It does not help that local government in England has been weakened by recent decades of centralisation in which more powers and decisions have been moved to central government (see, for exam

Thompson, tireless and unrelenting, brought her case to the Minnesota Court of Appeals. There her lawyers argued eloquently that it was “astonishing” that a judge would issue an order that would “have the effect of limiting Sharon Kowalski’s contact with Thompson and the love Karen feels for her.” The lawyers demanded to know, “In what moral framew

Such approaches often involve drawing on ‘community capacity’ in the form of friends, neighbours, voluntary and community groups. There is growing evidence about how councils can improve outcomes for people and reduce costs by drawing on these different approaches to optimising care delivery (County Council Network and Newton, 2021).