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A ‘Healthy Weight Declaration’, led by Nicola Calder of @foodactive.bsky.social, featured in our recent report on the state of nutrition in the North of England, has been adopted by over 30 councils across England – including 23 in the North www.thenhsa.co.uk/2025/07/poor...

Our evidence shows that measures such as a national strategy to address cognitive frailty, tackling food insecurity, and strengthening support for unpaid carers could have a positive impact on the health of our older people @hannahdavies.bsky.social www.thenhsa.co.uk/2025/06/olde...

We are delighted that our Executive Director @hannahdavies.bsky.social and Professor @louiseckenny.bsky.social will join @kirithentwistle.bsky.social and Professor Dame Lesley Regan, speaking at our #WomanOfTheNorth panel event at #LabourPartyConference. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/building-a...

🏆 HUGE news for healthcare education! Northumbria University's nursing courses have achieved outstanding results in The Guardian University Guide 2026 rankings: ✨ 1st place - Children's Nursing ✨ 2nd place - General Nursing ✨ 6th place - Mental Health Nursing www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...

We are delighted that @debbieabrahamsmp.bsky.social is joining our roundtable event at @teamlabouruk.bsky.social Conference, where we will convene experts in ageing and productivity to discuss how to approach inequalities in the 10 year plan. www.thenhsa.co.uk/events/labou...

Well yes, but it’s not just about mayors and it’s not going to happen without a substantial commitment of resources and rebuilding capacity in local government www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

📣Two talented Northumbria researchers have today been awarded a share of £120 million from @ukri.org's flagship Future Leaders Fellowship fund to help advance their work in space physics and book history. 🎉Congratulations to Dr @charlottestalks.bsky.social and Dr @drwilliams.bsky.social

We are pleased to announce that Bolton North East MP @kirithentwistle.bsky.social - member of the Women and Equalities Select Committee, Women and Work APPG & Women's Health APPG - will be speaking at our #WomanOfTheNorth event at Labour Party Conference. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/building-a...

Journalist & documentarian Terri White talks how the Two Child Limit is deeply problematic and misogynistic, and how it disproportionately impacts families and children in the North.

We've also got @hannahdavies.bsky.social of @healthequitynorth.bsky.social talking about disproportionate welfare cuts under austerity years in the North, and how tackling child poverty and increasing child outcomes is already harder starting from a much lower baseline.

“It’s a desperate time for social mobility” Speaking on the @ipprnorth.bsky.social panel ‘The kids aren’t alright’, @healthequitynorth.bsky.social Executive Director @hannahdavies.bsky.social emphasised the need for real policy change to enable children of the north to reach their potential.

Authors of our report on food and nutrition inequalities point to a number of influencing factors, including higher food insecurity and the high numbers of fast food outlets located in the North. Our CEO @hannahdavies.bsky.social has commented on the report www.thenhsa.co.uk/2025/07/poor...

Between 2019/20 & 2023/24, the local authority costs of supporting children in residential care nearly doubled to £3.1 billion but with only a rise of 10% of numbers. Our new @nao.org.uk report on a very important issue www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... (full report here www.nao.org.uk/reports/mana...)

More than a quarter of households in the North West are having to skip meals because they cannot afford the weekly shop, according to @trusselluk.bsky.social www.itv.com/news/granada...

Poor diets, ultra processed foods are fuelling obesity in children globally. We’re failing children in the most deprived areas and countries www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Great editorial from great colleagues: www.bmj.com/content/390/...

Please let me know what you think or if you have seen any data or analysis you think would be of interest. For the North, it is great that 6 of the 10 top areas are here. Now to learn from and sustain it. futurenorth.substack.com/p/why-is-gre... 7/7

Great to have so many fantastic advocates for child health in one space - Mark Mon Williams of @universityofleeds.bsky.social Charlie Jeffrey & @profkepickett.bsky.social of @york.ac.uk @hannahdavies.bsky.social of @thenhsa.bsky.social 1/2

Executive Director of @healthequitynorth.bsky.social @hannahdavies.bsky.social will be speaking at the @ipprnorth.bsky.social event ‘The kids aren’t alright’ next month, discussing how better opportunities for children living in the North can be delivered www.ippr.org/events/the-k...

Downing Street shake-up: who’s in and who’s out at No 10

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They’re among the best in British indie. So why have Field Music become a Doors cover band?

And unsurprisingly there’s considerable regional inequalities in this ageing-better.org.uk/news/homes-m...

Statement issued by @profkepickett.bsky.social of @york.ac.uk and Professor David Taylor-Robinson of @livuninews.bsky.social

Today, students all over the UK are receiving their A-Level results, with average grades having rise - however, there are still regional inequalities in exam results. Our Academic Co-Directors have issued a statement on the North-South results divide: www.healthequitynorth.co.uk/health-equit...

Mount Sinai Creates First Manual for Treating Infection-Associated Chronic Illness for Clinicians Brilliant work - huge thanks to all involved 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 www.mountsinai.org/about/newsro...

Medical science is bloody brilliant.

With the #NHS 10 Year Plan having a strong emphasis on shifting more care out of hospitals and into the community, we have been studying other health systems which have had the same goal. 🏘️ This blog by @sjanereed.bsky.social discusses what we can learn from Denmark and Ireland. 👇 buff.ly/GyEkyVv

This should absolutely be a no-brainer

This is hugely hopeful. I just hope the biomedical research funding ME/CFS so desperately needs is forthcoming

This is absolutely shocking

You’d have hoped that ministers would have seen the political problem here.

“We urgently need more research, more researchers coming into the field, [and] more research funding to build on what we’ve found.” Sonya Chowdhury, @actionforme.bsky.social CEO, talking about DecodeME: www.science.org/content/arti...

Very much looking forward to this excellent panel - and event!

Today the #WorkandPensionsCommittee has released our final report on the Pathways to Work Green Paper, which focused on measures in the UC and PIP Bill, now the UC Bill. The report welcomes the concessions that the Government made to the Bill, but there are still issues with these welfare reforms..

🚨 | NEW PAPER: Community spaces are vanishing, and with them, the ties that bind us. A year on from the Southport riots, we explore how the loss of pubs, parks and youth clubs is weakening social connection, and how to rebuild it 👉 ippr.org/articles/places-to-come-together

I am so extremely tired. Those poor, poor girls.

"disadvantages faced by older people living in the North, in areas such as health life expectancy housing nutrition employment & social isolation" [...] driven by economic & social factors & is “totally reversible” says report tinyurl.com/2x7weu2u @lukemunford.bsky.social @stevensenior.bsky.social

Blackpool's rate of new business formation (5.6 per 1000 people/yr) exceeds Oxfordshire's (4.2 per 1000 people/yr) It's that greater degree of entrepreneurial spirit that must account for the fact that Blackpool is famously more prosperous than Oxfordshire.

The findings of the Ageing in the North study reveal that people living in the North have a shorter life expectancy than older people living in the South. Northerners are also more likely to be poorer, socially isolated and living in inadequate housing. #nursesky buff.ly/LCLbmRQ

I attended the launch of the Ageing in the North report, highlighting inequalities older people in the North face compared to the South. Great to meet my constituents Jane McDermott, Elaine Unegbu and Alexis Darby, who contributed to this important work.

Arthritis is more common amongst 55-64 year olds in the North of England (28%) than in the South (23%). Just 51% of people in the North East and Yorkshire are seen for treatment within the national 3 week target, compared to 79% in the South West www.thenhsa.co.uk/2025/06/olde...

Families living in areas of higher poverty – such as the North of England – are less likely to have access to healthy, affordable food and more likely to have children who live with obesity according to our recent APPG report www.healthequitynorth.co.uk/northern-chi...

Thanks to @isabellamcrae.bsky.social for the opportunity of a @bigissue.com comment piece, authored by @lakenutrition.bsky.social and other Nutrition North members - you can read about why it's harder to be healthier in the North at www.bigissue.com/opinion/heal...

Our new report, produced by our Nutrition North network & @healthequitynorth.bsky.social shows that intake of calcium, fibre, vegetables, fruit, legumes, healthy fatty acids and sodium are all lower in the North than the England average www.thenhsa.co.uk/2025/07/poor...

Our Head of Communications Ruth Boston is a guest on this week's Viva PR podcast, talking about how we use our team's PR, communications and public affairs skills to take research from data to impactful change. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Griv...

Brilliant to see this important first report from our #NutritionNorth collaboration highlighting the stark dietary inequalities that exist. However we do offer ideas to address these issues.

Great to be acknowledged along with @healthequitynorth.bsky.social in @kimmcguinness.bsky.social Child Poverty Action Plan released today

Your regular reminder that over a lifetime, people born in 1956 will each receive on average £291,000 more from the welfare state than they paid in, compared to £132,000 for people born in 1996 (h/t Resolution Foundation) Just something to consider next time you hear “I’ve paid in all my life…”