He's going to 'make the case for markets' despite screwing up Britain's place in a very large one, and putting up trade barriers.

Flu is spiking up unusually early this year. The chart below shows hospital admissions, compared to six recent flu seasons. Other indicators like flu test positivity paint the same picture. From today's @ukhsa.bsky.social surveillance update: www.gov.uk/government/s...

Good thread, lots of competing (with different advocates and 'fashions') and shifting meanings of health inequalities (as other concepts such as population health), v evident in English policy and debate too over time.

🎧 Speaking to Emma Vardy on Radio 5 Live, @davefinch.bsky.social​ says, with 1 in 5 working-age people reporting a work-limiting health condition, it is vital that government and employers now act on the Mayfield review's recommendations. Listen from 2.11 ⬇️

Long covid prevalence is available in OHID's Fingertips tool, am not sure this data is much known about! fingertips.phe.org.uk/profile/gene...

Good to be in Leeds today with colleagues old and new, on #devolition and #health. So much potential - tx great panel made it easy to chair on #partnership between ICS/strategic authorities and local authorities for #health. Tx @healthfoundation.bsky.social for support.

Welcoming the final report from Sir Charlie Mayfield’s Keep Britain Working Review, @davefinch.bsky.social​ says the only sustainable way to meet the growing workforce health challenge and improve lives is to keep people healthy and in work from the outset. Read more ⬇️ https://bit.ly/4nz5EH1

1/6. Really welcome Sir Charlie Mayfield's review on #work and #health today in response to this existential reality bbc.co.uk/news/article.... Review link and quick thoughts follow.

'The depth of admin failures suggest that fixing admin is a highly complex area that requires resources, skill, leadership and walking in the shoes of patients and carers' Julia Cream looks at two areas where they're trying to do admin differently. https://bit.ly/47BI6vq

1/2. Really interesting work from @impurbanhealth.bsky.social on #financial #health, #GPs, #socialprescribing etc. To add to previous examples. This wider concept of helth and wellbeing is what #neighbourhoodhealth service should be about IMHO. But... urbanhealth.org.uk/insights/rep...

2nd edition of our The AI Shift newsletter is out. The question today: could AI be making us LESS productive? @jburnmurdoch.ft.com www.ft.com/content/2480... At the individual level, it's clear we're not reliable witnesses on this Q. At an organisational level, it gets even more interesting...

Government has published one of those quiet but important documents that might get overlooked as it is not 'newsy'. The headline finding is that £1 of public R&D investment generates £8 in net economic benefits for the UK over the long term www.gov.uk/government/p...

Must read from @cipfa.bsky.social on #measurment of #prevention #spending in local government. Glad to have been on ad group. If you don't have some approach to measurement, you don't know where you are and you can't protect or shift spend knowingly. Now for the NHS... www.cipfa.org/policy-and-g...

Cutting child poverty is obviously important as per this polling yesterday from @steveakehurst.bsky.social Child poverty increasing leads to the biggest loss of govt approval by an election in hyopthetical polling.

Government doesn't know how reliant it is on independent adult hospices for the provision of palliative and end-of-life care. With more people dying in England each year, the sustainability of independent hospices is of national importance. Read: www.nao.org.uk/reports/the-...

...righto.

Alcoholic drinks, along with fruit and fish, are the only food and drink category to have got cheaper, in real terms, since the start of the cost-of-living crisis. Beer has got slightly more expensive in real terms since the end of 2022, but wine and spirits remain at late 2022 prices.

Our data released today has found that 15 million people in the UK live with damp, mould and cold in their homes. 🔴 No one should have to live in a home that damages their health. Explore the findings from our survey here. 👉 healthequals.org.uk/data_insight...

Highly welcomed, and a result of great engagement from @instituteforgovernment.org.uk and others - civil servant connections with civil society are critical to good government👍 www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/welc...

How can we map and measure preventative spend? Join us for the launch of CIPFA's new report on understanding preventative investment, which we are pleased to support. 📍The Health Foundation, 8 Salisbury Square, London 📆 Thursday 6 November, 13.30–14.30 Find out more and register ⬇️

We’re proud to join the @healthequals.bsky.social social coalition to support action on the building blocks of health and #MakeHealthEqual in the UK. https://healthequals.org.uk/

This is complete madness. The utter waste of huge time, effort, hope. And those tiny %s increasingly given to those PIs with grants already and no time to manage them. Funding needs overhaul.

As trust in the federal government's stewardship of US public health infrastructure plummets, NEJM and CIDRAP are launching a rival publication to the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Story by @aniloza.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/10/21/c...

"Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time" Link: www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/... Report: www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/...

Leveraging seasonal variation in homeless shelter availability in Los Angeles County finds that temporary shelter significantly reduces crime and ER visits for psychiatric conditions, from Derek A. Christopher, Mark Duggan, and Olivia H. Martin www.nber.org/papers/w34376

One of the things I like that we do at @britishacademy.bsky.social is take a historical view of policy. Here is our latest - a history looking at regional development policy. Turns out we've been trying to do 'levelling up' for a long time... 🧵 www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publications...

I'm glad and pleased that @thekingsfund.bsky.social is now a supporter of @healthequals.bsky.social, the campaign for tackling pernicious, unjust, economically damaging AND PREVENTABLE inequalities in health.

New data shows that the rate of alcohol-specific deaths in England & Wales *fell* in 2024 by 7.8%, but remain well above pre-pandemic levels. This is the first fall since 2018, and is certainly good news, but the no. of people who sadly died from these causes in 2024 is still 1/3 higher than 2019

We're delighted to welcome Sir James Mackey, Chief Executive of NHS England to our Annual conference in November. He's joining us on day 2 of the event which focuses on what the future might mean for the health and care system. Book your place today: buff.ly/yo1wQcK

🚨 New regional analysis of Pride in Place funding 🚨 We've crunched the numbers and found that the North is set to be a major benefactor of the government’s Pride in Place fund 🧮 Read all about it in today's @thenorthernagenda.bsky.social 📫 newsletters.e.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/-rESDdIxHn7C...

The antidote to wall-to-wall reality TV and vox-pops.

This is @instituteforgovernment.org.uk equivalent of a 19th century novel with cliffhangers as each part comes out.. prepare for weeks of near unremitting gloom on the state of public services (I assume). by our stellar #performancetracker team

The OBR has been consistently disappointed by productivity growth... ... and if they mark down their forecasts at the upcoming Budget (as many expect), it would have significant consequences. Find out more 👉 buff.ly/KmJEg1Y

ICYMI: This is a must-read for this in the venn diagram of #devolution #economicgrowth and #health space - the evidence on the nuance of making it most effective in practice. 👇

NEW: @instituteforgovernment.org.uk have published pt1 of Public Services Performance Tracker 2025 covering local government finances and overall performance, adult social care, children's social care and homelessness Incredible work by @stuarthoddinott.bsky.social & @amberdellar.bsky.social

EXC: English councils will still be poorer in 2029 than they were in 2010, according to the IfG. Report finds councils are increasingly providing social care and little else. Libraries, youth services, parks, all falling by the wayside. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

New stats this month show ⬆️ adults experiencing gambling harm. This is not down to individual behaviour. Instead, it is a result of extremely effective marketing. To ⬇️ harm, we need to better regulate price, availability, & marketing. bit.ly/3J5oUOm

Is "we're going to start making erotica" what you'd announce if, in your heart of hearts, you believed you were running a company that was just about to invent super intelligence capable of solving any problem?

I've been to four different a&e departments in the last year and they're all completely differently organised. You'd have thought there'd be more agreement on the best way to do it.

Our latest blog: “socioeconomic disadvantage is still a significant and systemic barrier to success”

More power to @profangiehobbs.bsky.social – I hope this revival of The Great Philosophers brings about the rebirth of deep learning through television. Archived programming on YT from the 70s and 80s has been a gift for two whole decades, but it’s time to put philosophy back on the mainstream menu.

This looks great. Go on, have a look.

Congratulations to our friends at @cooperativesuk.bsky.social and all in the UK's co-op & mutual economy 👏 ✅ 82% survive 5+ years (vs 39% of other biz) ✅ 65.7m memberships ✅ Women lead 2x more top co-ops than FTSE 100 firms ✅ 4x more likely to pay the Living Wage ✅ Community pubs up 51% in 5 years

www.strategyunitwm.nhs.uk/publications... A missing element in ‘shifting care’ Numbers Show me the budget and that will reveal the strategy

On Tuesday @instituteforgovernment.org.uk will publish the first part of Performance Tracker 2025, our flagship annual stocktake of the state of public services We’re doing things slightly differently this year, so I thought I’d do a quick thread explaining some of the changes 🧵

Was in conversation wirh a few innovation and med tec peeps recently Was all a bit "modern stents and TAVI have saved lives. It’s cool. Innovation is going to save lives. And if it’s better than what replaced it then all’s ok...." I mentioned my old friend “opportunity cost”. Cue tumbleweed

Where we live – and the air we breathe – can shape our health, including how long we can expect to live. Explore the data on air quality for local authorities across England on our newly updated Local Authority Dashboard ⬇️ https://bit.ly/4pNdG1w

In a letter published today in the BMJ, we call for urgent action to correct misperceptions of vaping. As long as public perceptions of vaping are misaligned with evidence, the opportunity for vaping to further reduce smoking is being missed. www.bmj.com/content/391/... @ashorguk.bsky.social