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Monday, 11 June 2018

Terminally ill patients fall under anti-terror Prevent scheme

NHS whistleblower says even dementia sufferers could be seen as at risk of radicalisation

Doctors and nurses are being trained to monitor terminally ill people and dementia patients and their visitors for signs of radicalisation as part of the government’s Prevent scheme, the Guardian has learned.

A senior NHS whistleblower who works on the programme said that its operations in the health system were so indiscriminate that she had carried out the training in hospices and said that she knew of other trainers who had operated in dementia wards.

Related: Sajid Javid’s counter-terrorism plans risk Britain’s freedom | Simon Jenkins

Related: Mosques launch anti-radicalisation scheme as alternative to Prevent

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