Strangely muted response to this new report from the @healthfoundation.bsky.social on Labour's First Year on NHS / Health policy, largely critical (with good reason) and the first think-tank to come out highlighting lack of coherence and disruptive reorganisation. www.health.org.uk/publications...

The far-right is in its pomp. We will have to fight for our values like never before. iandunt.substack.com/p/encounteri...

A country divided by health inequalities. Solving the UK regional health divide. bmj.com/cgi/content/... @felly500.bsky.social @jesstud.bsky.social @ipprnorth.bsky.social @clesthinkdo.bsky.social

Shiny tech, health equity, and deliverability of the 10 year health plan Fit for the Future, some personal reflections and selected links to post-plan commentary, inc great posts by @samfr.bsky.social & @jessrmorley.bsky.social & reflecting @policyskeptic.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/posts/fenton...

Excellent analysis here from @samfr.bsky.social on the 10yr-health plan. The benefit of having some distance from the inner workings of the NHS & think-tanks in its sphere is apparent. In summary: willing the NHS to improve with enthusiasm is not a remedy to deep short & long term challenges

I highly recommend Jess Morley’s analysis of the NHS Ten-Year Plan: www.linkedin.com/pulse/nhs-10... Great use of Taylor Swift lyrics!

Labour launched its NHS 10 year plan this week. Many have already written about it, esp on health care delivery. My latest post looks at the plans on the social determinants health - some good news, some gaps. The devil is in the delivery and reducing poverty. open.substack.com/pub/christin...

Will the 10 Year Health Plan favour tech-driven Bio-Medicalisation? - follow the money to see where trade-offs are made in the 10YHP, with primary & community-centred care at risk of domination by technophile models. www.linkedin.com/pulse/10-yea...

the most basic, enduring plea from medicine: stop obsessing over tech solutions for tiny marginal returns when we haven't even mastered the basics of 19thC public health reform, let alone anything more sophisticated.

"Not for the first time then, health services will see significant funding increases without it feeling like a bonanza for the people who run or receive services." Siva Anandaciva in @thekingsfund.bsky.social blog with analysis of the Spending Review www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...

its time to take prevention seriously and fully engage people in keeping healthy and using services wisely - this must be at the heart of the 10 year NHS plan. The road for increasing spending on a sickness service is running out

This by @shaunlintern.bsky.social describes well the perilous situation the NHS is in and the scale of the challenge to secure improvement, but like the Andrew Rawnsley piece in the Observer there is strangely no mention of the NHSE abolition and the major cuts and reorg of ICS, risking disruption.

What happened to the government’s health mission? Good health isn't just built in hospitals but shaped by living conditions - from adequate income to secure housing. Alex Kennedy outlines the need for a cross-government plan to improve health and reduce health inequalities⬇️ https://bit.ly/3TorQHg

Our research is set to have a significant impact on NHS translation and interpreting service provision via @england.nhs.uk's new Improvement Framework. The emphasis on cultural sensitivity, digital exclusion and community partnership will be vital for high-quality services. 👉 tinyurl.com/yh63x3cb

#Oliverscampaign @NHSEngland has published its Patient safety healthcare inequalities reduction framework designed to address unfair & avoidable differences in patient safety outcomes across population groups Olivers story has been included in appendix 1 www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/pa...

'Just cutting a budget without a well thought-out plan doesn’t magically improve efficiency, and it’s very likely to disrupt the healthcare you were trying to deliver.' www.bmj.com/content/389/...

Truly shocking. 700,000 people already in poverty to be pulled even deeper by record cuts to disability support. Internal government figures lay bare the real extent of the cruel damage these cuts will inflict. 1/4 www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Welcome to all delegates joining us at our event today #KFHealthInequalities. Today's topics include: ✅ prevention ✅ from ‘power over' to ‘power with'. ✅ tackling racism and discrimination in the NHS ✅ empowering place-based partnerships buff.ly/qZ5T8LI

This is a seismic political shift and it will take real political courage not to allow it to drag every party further right and further towards populism, but to create meaningful (brilliantly communicated) alternatives that resonate with voters.

“If all SUVs were replaced with passenger cars, the number of pedestrians and cyclists killed in car crashes would decrease by an estimated 17% in the USA and by 8% in Europe. The number of child pedestrians and cyclists killed in car crashes would decrease by 27% in the USA and by 14% in Europe.”

Exciting opportunity as Health Inequalities Programme Manager for Barking & Dagenham Place HI prog (until Dec 2026) Coproduced across LA,NHS & VCSFE, programme incl 10 workstreams developing & testing new approaches Closes 14/5 Please share! www.lbbd.gov.uk/council-jobs...

Alarming research reveals the scale of the danger posed to pedestrians and cyclists - especially children - by "supersize" SUV cars www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo...

Delighted to have authored this report, launched today, busting one of the biggest myths in British politics. The public doesn't see action on public health as 'the nanny state'. In fact, they want bolder action - incl among key swing voters. This has major implications for policy & politics. 🧵

The power of politics to do good. Who would have thought it. It is so often about holding your nerve in the face of entirely predictable, self interested opposition.

‘There is simply no conception (within NHS England) of how pivotal GPs are to the cost-effective performance of the health service - let alone to holistic patient care’ So says the ever-insightful @pwhitakerwriter.medsky.social www.newstatesman.com/politics/hea...

Another editorial from this week’s @bmj.com. By Kate Pickett and David Taylor Robinson. A wealth tax in the UK could raise £60bn a year to tackle widening inequalities. Perhaps we can no longer afford NOT to do it? Link here: www.bmj.com/content/389/... #MedSky #Inequalities #SDOH #WealthTax

Ydays post: The new silent majority mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-... When the 2 main parties promote socially conservative policies and argue against funding better public services, that can mean that a social liberal and economic centre or left point of view struggles to get much airtime

SUVs increase the odds of killing in a collision. They're high at the front, your children get dragged under then crushed to death. They're also too big for parking spaces. They shld just be treated like vans, subject to lower speed limits, higher parking charges. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Nearly 90% of doctors warn that health inequalities are harming patients www.rcp.ac.uk/news-and-med...

Tobacco companies rake in millions from addiction, illness, and loss. MPs say it’s time they paid for the damage. 📖Read the latest report from the APPG on Smoking and Health, which calls for a polluter pays levy to fund a smokefree country. ash.org.uk/resources/vi...

Repeating the offer of peer support, safe spaces, collaboratives for peer advice, cups of tea (and anything in between) to communications and engagement professionals in the NHS who may be feeling anxious, sad, lost and upset. Let me know what would help and I’ll do my best to arrange it #NHSComms

The FPH is deeply concerned about the announced £4.8 billion cut to disability and health-related benefits. This cut comes at a time of rising poverty and directly undermines the government’s aim of tackling health inequalities and child poverty. www.fph.org.uk/news/fph-res...

‘Pacific, temperate, egalitarian, avowedly non-violent, the epitome of unimpeachable, quietist radicalism: if the police can do this to the Quakers, what could they do to you?’ James Butler on last week’s Met Police raid on a Quaker meeting house in Westminster: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...

I'm afraid the FT has succumbed to the incorrect consensus about why NHS A&E performance is so awful: on.ft.com/4c97ESf ...

Love this visualization. Along with a critical economic analysis of who’s actually benefiting from this food and land use system (ie big ag and big food corps) it’s clear. If we fix food properly, we can fix many global crises.

Good observations from @policyskeptic.bsky.social - you can't crowdsource solutions to the NHS, it needs working the problem with robust analysis as well as engagement.

I have a big worry that the NHS 10-year plan is trying to derive the strategy from consensus views of the solutions. It should be driving the solutions from robust analysis of the problem and trying to get a consensus around them...

“It is hard to see how diminishing local NHS management even further will help deliver government’s objectives on reform.” Abolishing NHSE and cuts to ICBs is far from likely to improve the NHS.

This is a fiercely sad and damning piece about the reality of one of our most admired professions. What a terrible fate for a dedicated man www.the-londoner.co.uk/nhs-doctor-s...

"It is just possible there will be some real gains from this that could not have been achieved by a more evolutionary approach. But if there are they will be a long way down the road, and the risks are precisely those that Mr Streeting set out six weeks ago." Nick Timmins on classic form here.

wise words from Siva Anandaciva of @thekingsfund.bsky.social "I am increasingly concerned that a government that wants to speed down the road of reform is now in the process of erecting a massive speedbump in its own path" And (how) will it help improve the NHS? www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...

"In reality – it is impossible to take politics out of the NHS... But history tells us that rejigging NHS organisations is hugely distracting and rarely delivers the benefits politicians expect... Reforming NHS bureaucracy is not the same as reforming patient care" 👍@hughalderwick.bsky.social

A quick reminder to counteract the narrative that NHSE needs to be abolished to save management costs. An old article from me arguing that the NHS is not overmanaged: policyskeptic.blogspot.com/2018/01/the-...

What a “Public Health approach” is (or should be) - great 🧵by @felly500.bsky.social

Our new report with @runnymedetrust.bsky.social reveals stark inequalities in access to the building blocks of good health by ethnicity, and identifies ways in which structural racism operates across our labour market, housing systems and the lived environment. Read it here 👇 buff.ly/LGnVEPE

The Trump regime is anti-science and hates scientists. It will tolerate no dissent. I can't help being reminded of China under Mao and Pol Pot in Cambodia. It doesn't end well.

The increased item of service vaccine fee won’t help practices in deprived areas (whose uptake is lower and harder to achieve as @drgandalf.bsky.social explains) Inverse care law in action. Over 1 year since I had to give up my practice as it wasn’t financially viable & health inequalities widen

📣📣📣 Absolutely fabulous job opportunity @healthfoundation.bsky.social for a Public Health Consultant with the drive to improve health and reduce inequalities through transforming prevention policy - in its broadest sense - across the UK! Please share ☺️ lde.tbe.taleo.net/lde01/ats/ca...

I'm concerned about several ideas promoted in this article on overdiagnosis, which argues that people are now excessively and unnecessarily seeking medical diagnoses for a range of difficulties. I describe my concerns below www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

I loathe these dangerous cars. Why aren’t they taxed to high heaven?