内容摘要：But for all the skill on display, dozens of his pieces of work vanished in a key period while he was in hospital.

But for all the skill on display, dozens of his pieces of work vanished in a key period while he was in hospital.

Liz Elfleet, medical imaging manager at Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust who helped set up the unit, describes this as the future of the NHS."We've seen around a 50% reduction in patients not attending for appointments," and the number of women accepting an invitation to have a routine breast screening appointment has risen "from 43% to just under 80% over the three years," she says.

The centre, which offers a range of health checks and scans, was opened in 2022 under the last Conservative government. The current Labour government says many more services will now move out of hospital into the community.In Barnsley, that is already happening. Part of another shopping centre is being converted into a second, large health hub. The project will be funded by the local council, regional mayor and a government grant.The leader of Labour-run Barnsley Council, Sir Steve Houghton, says the scanning centre has shown NHS facilities can boost town centres, and they estimate people spend about £17 on average in local businesses when they visit.

The second big shift the NHS is being asked to make is to focus more on preventing ill-health. In Sheffield, a GP practice has already begun to do this, to help them manage a workload which they say had become overwhelming.Five years ago, Steel City General Practice analysed the data for 10,000 of their patients who needed the most help. "So we then said, let's actually proactively bring them in. They haven't contacted us - we've contacted them," says Dr Krishna Kasaraneni.

GP appointments usually take about 10 minutes, but the Steel City practice gave these patients longer appointments to try to pick up problems earlier. They also took a risk and didn't chase a national target to see all patients within two weeks.

Dr Kasaraneni says it has paid off. "The numbers of strokes have dropped over that five-year period. Coronary heart disease numbers have dropped," he says. It has helped the doctors manage their workload better.Binns, of Cross Avenue in Wallsend, admitted three offences including attempting to pay for the sexual services of a child and arranging the commission of a child sex offence.

Binns and the woman met on a dating app and chatted for a few weeks before finally meeting in November, with him taking her for a drive in his car, prosecutor Claire Anderson said.Days later Binns, who told the woman his surname was Dudgeon, talked about staying at her house and suggested the couple have a threesome with a child, the court heard.

He also asked the woman if she had ever thought about having "sex with people aged from one onwards", Ms Anderson said.When he found out she had a 10-week-old granddaughter, he requested naked pictures of the child which he offered to pay for, the court heard.