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Ministerial statement today on more dental training places, speedier conversion for overseas-qualified dentists, the previously announced interim changes to the NHS dental contract and increases to dental charges. commonsbusiness.parliament.uk/Document/103...

Would not have predicted Diane Morgan and I have the same answer to the question about the first record we ever bought. Lala lalalalalalalala, lala lalalalalalalala, lala lalalalalalalala lalalaaaaaaaaa. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/m...

Did you know, 52 years ago tonight, Terry Scott drove off the end of the Tees Transporter Bridge? 🧵

This looks really interesting and it’s got me thinking about how other kinds of organisation besides governments might usefully adopt some of the principles to deal with their parallel challenges.

Well, I think what we can take from this result is that it somehow proves everyone right about whatever they thought the result would be.

Never a big Narnia guy but this 6 seconds typifies everything I love about British television.

There but for the grace of God… I mean, who hasn’t taken their Fabergé egg and £2 million watch down the boozer? www.thetimes.com/article/0712...

Grant Hardie when he knows he’s played a blinder of a shot… #curling tenor.com/en-GB/view/m...

Just read a comment on my local newspaper’s website decrying “Neigh Sayers” and that’s set me up nicely for the day.

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Really needed to see a good news story at this point in this particular week… www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Interesting to see that the HSJ podcast has now twice featured experts highlighting the challenge the Government will face in attempting to get the forthcoming Health Bill through Parliament if it includes its current plans concerning Healthwatch. 1/3. www.hsj.co.uk/policy-and-r...

Classy. Or just auditioning for a role as a panto villain? www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Beautiful and thought-provoking on lots of levels. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Hang on, Sunday Times - maybe make your mind up?

Heritage at Risk register’s out in a week of briefings that the Budget will cut NHS lists. Describes this 123-yr-old hospital as decaying with no solution agreed. That’s just its existence, not its NHS function. Cutting lists needs a serious capital strategy. historicengland.org.uk/listing/heri...

Love this note at the end of the Guardian’s review of the J**n L***s Christmas ad.

Good to see @healthwatchengland.bsky.social pulling together experiences of children with SEN and disabilities ahead of White Paper. Glad 2 of the examples used come from what people have shared with Healthwatch Hertfordshire - and that one is a good news story. www.healthwatch.co.uk/blog/2025-11...

Whoever’s directing Sunday Brunch just made my morning. @charliehigson.bsky.social said he bonded with @jimmoir1.bsky.social over their partners cheating on them by going fishing together. Cut to young Norwegian singer Sigrid looking utterly staggered that Brits discuss such things on live TV.

This is good news but the Secretary of State’s wrong to say women have been suffering in silence. They’ve consistently been trying to tell the system and being ignored. Sound familiar? Here’s Exhibit A from Healthwatch Hertfordshire: www.healthwatchhertfordshire.co.uk/news/2023-12...

Who else is looking forward to Celebrity Traitors tonight? I have views… neiltesterconsulting.co.uk/blogs-and-ar...

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

Who else is looking forward to Celebrity Traitors tonight? I have views… neiltesterconsulting.co.uk/blogs-and-ar...

While it would make Barry Gardiner MP’s life easier if he represented a one-man constituency, Brett North isn’t going to be pleased with BBC London.

I’ve moved house and I’m still stowing away a whole load of things that I know why I kept but that don’t have obvious places to go. One is this notebook in which I started to note down some of my 7-year-old’s questions. If anyone can answer them, it would help me stop being such a deadbeat dad 🤣

Not entirely sure why they buried the key to it all in the 14th paragraph… www.theguardian.com/money/2025/s...

Important from @healthwatchengland.bsky.social. I was invited for mine 7 years after I became eligible, finally went 2-and-a-half years later, had blood pressure of 170/120 and dread to think what might have happened. (Exercise and meds have sorted the BP now.) www.healthwatch.co.uk/blog/2025-09...

Nothing will stop the illegal ice cream vans on Westminster Bridge

I find it quite endearing that there are still PR people who think I’m going to read this now and still remember it, after weeks of the world continuing its accelerating descent, in October. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Claire has overseen a period of pretty substantial (unprecedented?) growth in spending on mental health services ... Yet it's miles away from meeting need and demand The commitment to that growing investment now very clearly at an end

I can EXCLUSIVELY reveal that when someone posts something on LinkedIn the Guardian thinks it counts as an EXCLUSIVE. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

A textbook case of how not to report polls. '50%? Oh my god!' 'Oh, you mean a 9-point increase'?

The doctor quoted by Dr Aseem Malhotra in his speech today was listed in 2020 as having a financial interest in a rival Covid vaccine and company.

Nudge. Always felt too simplistic to me, especially when it comes to health and health services. Does anyone have an example of nudge making a meaningful difference in healthcare? Aware that reach is a problem on this platform, so please pass on. Trying to write something for publication. Thanks!

I see ITV are doing a drama about The Thick of It inquiry episode.

Friend’s 8 yo is in hospital in Malaysia. This is how lunch comes. Different smiley face every time. Why aren’t we doing this?

Animated BSL station platform warning message 👍

I checked what i have to do with the nine empty spray cans of red paint I used to do up this tin trunk and established that as they’re aerosol cans containing paint I need to hand them to the staff at the council recycling centre. But I just realised they’re also in charge of roundabouts. #Awkward

Our new chart this week shows wide variation at local authority level in the proportion of people who die aged under 75. In Slough, 45% die under the age of 75, yet it's just 24% in adjoining Windsor and Maidenhead. Find out more: buff.ly/20unIxr

Not convinced this press officer understands how the Tardis is supposed to work.

Thanks @privateeyenews.bsky.social for this addition to my “Maybe the people selling us AI ought to learn a bit about how AI works” file…

Today’s Epping judgement seems a decent reason to share this recent Healthwatch Hertfordshire report that paints a stark picture of what it’s really like to live in an asylum hotel. www.healthwatchhertfordshire.co.uk/news/2025-07...

Good. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/a...

Dear doctoral candidates, If you want me to spend 15 minutes providing consent to take part in your study and a further 30 minutes completing the survey, having pondered your detailed eligibility criteria, then using either or both of ‘please’ and ‘thanks’ in your email would be an incentive.

Improving general practice appointment booking - bureaucratic justice suggests striving for GP appointment booking processes to be perceived as efficient and for them to be perceived as legitimate and just. bjgp.org/content/75/...

Well played, Let’s-Play-Sleeping-Lions Train Dad 👏

Another important piece of work by Healthwatch Hertfordshire, on the needs and experiences of the #ArmedForces community and #Veterans. As with our recent #AsylumSeekers and #Refugees work, the #NHS often assumes everyone knows how it’s organised. www.healthwatchhertfordshire.co.uk/news/2025-08...