Yeah, think we know what ‘ceasefire’ means. Been one in Gaza from last October with over 700 Palestinian civilians killed by Israeli forces since then, including women, children, aid workers, journalists and people with disabilities www.ft.com/content/a4f1...

Much on number of NEETs this week but nothing about the quality of jobs that so many young people are offered. With a high proportion of entry level jobs classified as ‘unskilled’ or ‘repetitive’, requiring little formal training and focus on routine tasks while offering little chance of progression

Why are we not trusted with our own medical records? Could carry them coded on something like a bank card. They could be added to at each medical appointment/ treatment.

Mind, if patients ‘owned’ their medical records and kept these themselves in a portable format- would be much easier- and likely to actually work. Recall working in health complex in UB and seeing patients turning up to see doctor carrying their own medical record file. www.gov.uk/government/n...

As our government moves to try and integrate AI into the NHS will they pause, in their hurry to save £ and ‘improve efficiency’, to fully recognise that AI is safest used as a partner NOT an authority? Let’s hope so

The poorest households in UK now spend almost half of their income on rent with up to 1 in 5 of these homes being classed as ‘non-decent’ (cold, damp etc). A large % of our poorest live in private rented homes so not hard to recognise a critical public health issue as well as a vote loser for Labour

Doubt new online hospital is going to help much to improve patient flow and outcomes in those more deprived areas of England that have low levels of digital access and skills, and also hit hardest by NHS staff shortages, poor GP access, struggling, overcrowded hospitals and high patient demand.

The new online hospital (NHS Online) promises faster, more convenient access to specialist care but faces major risks including digital exclusion of older adults (highest in poorer areas), uneven infrastructure, workforce strain and patient safety concerns. www.pulsetoday.co.uk/news/clinica...

Aside from the huge integration challenge the FDP faces with the mainstream NHS is how this plays out with independent sector and private hospitals that now deliver a big chunk of NHS procedures and care, including mental health services.

Whole NHS payment system driving increasing numbers of NHS Trusts into a doom loop deficit, particularly those treating older and poorer populations, lower number of f.c.e. So cut staff and beds, new technology unaffordable so f.c.e.s fall further = income drops again www.hsj.co.uk/finance-and-...

Unfortunately this local ‘ leadership’ involves Reform party Mayors in some areas. We know what the Reform views are on the NHS, at least on very rare occasions they can manage to string two sentences together, without mentioning migrants. Back to the 1930s www.gov.uk/government/n...

Partner covers almost 18k each day on average during her hospital shifts according to the app she carries around on her phone.Then the other day staff also had to push patient beds to other wards as part of another reorganisation to ‘eradicate corridor care’. While corridor is still full of patients

I open my NHS App and go to ‘book appointments’. All I get is ‘contact your GP surgery to book an appointment’. Between the idea and the reality, between the motion and the action falls the shadow. As in life and the cosmos, so with NHS IT

The all too predictable outcome of perverse incentive in NHS targets. www.hsj.co.uk/emergency-ca...

Will it do better than the disastrous NPfiT programme aimed at doing much the same thing and that was abandoned after washing away £ billions in taxpayer cash, much of it flowing into the accounts of BT,CSC, Fujitsu and Accenture? www.gov.uk/government/n...

Have NHS hospitals deliberately reducing porter staffing to save £ so leaving more heavy patient transfer tasks to frontline care staff?

More of the same with a famous name need to change the game. www.gov.uk/government/n...

But it is also a youth mental health and caring crisis. So hope this initiative takes that on board www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

‘Marking their own homework’? Think that is probably the reason Gov actually wants to disband Healthwatch in first place. An independent channel for patient voice and inconvenient truths www.local.gov.uk/about/news/d...

The problem with offering more of same short term job placements to young people is it does not tackle the mental health and caring barriers that prevents so many NEETs working in first place. Gov needs a new plan

Raises question of how large the illicit weight loss drug market is in UK. With legal drug prices of £150-300/ month guess it is likely quite significant. The illegal drugs can be extremely dangerous with severe health hazards from infections and organ damage to death www.gov.uk/government/n...

Rise in short term placements might help more young people but no substitute for longer skills training/ apprenticeships. Suspect this might not necessarily reach many NEET young people- particularly those with mental health issues and family caring responsibilities www.gov.uk/government/n...

Our local NHS Trust has launched a new ‘medical assessment unit’ to “eradicate corridor care’ by merging two existing similar units. So the number of hospital beds and staff have not increased. More management magic shifting the furniture around. Corridor care continues even with the summer now

Social media: two mirrors, one dark one light. Millions of young people report that social media has a negative impact on their mental health. But also similar numbers say it has had a positive impact on their mental health.

Petition: Introduce an NHS data opt-out & require a consultation for system expansions Introduce a clear national opt-out for NHS data processed in the FDP and NDIT and require a full public consultation before any further expansion of these systems. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...

Routine broad based prostate cancer screening rejected by National Screening Committee. While supporting targeted screening of men aged 45-61 with a particular gene variant. But will new health secretary overrule the recommendation and forge ahead with wider screening www.bmj.com/content/393/...

But sickness and caring are now greater contributors than actual unemployment for a young person becoming NEET and are likely to grow. So why are so many young people suffering poor mental health or locked into family caring? www.ft.com/content/4c09...

Another treatment avenue to try and spread the system pressure a bit. But can it help divert those many patients with minor illnesses turning up at A&Es? www.gov.uk/government/n...

Rising sickness, care responsibilities, AI displacement and declining population of young people. But government can stabilise youth workforce participation with deliberate policy and investment in human-centric sectors such as skilled trades, education and healthcare data.youthfuturesfoundation.org

The big growth in numbers of young people taking on caring caring responsibilities of young people since Covid has also led is a significant cause in disengagement from education and work. This should be something government can address relatively quickly

While NEET levels have risen across the country there are significant regional differences. For example they have risen from 8.8% in March-April 2025 to 9.5% in 2026 in SE England. While in NE it’s gone from 13.5% up to 15.4% in same time period. www.ons.gov.uk/employmentan...

Mr Blair’s statements regardless, UK state pension is among the least generous in the OECD when measured against earnings. Countries such as France, Italy and the Nordic states provide far higher state pensions. UK relies on workplace and private pension top ups. www.lovemoney.com/news/530757/...

These cases are beginning to add up to a darker and very worrying pattern. Patients will be losing trust in the NHS to handle their personal data. Also does not bode well for patient consent for any FDP - if it ever happens www.newstatesman.com/investigatio...

Corridor care has returned to our local hospital. Corridors were only clear and empty for barely a few days.

Health Foundation report examining the growing role of mental health in shaping young people’s employment and education outcomes, with a rising number of young people at risk of disengaging. www.health.org.uk/reports-and-...

Over last 15yrs our energy bill standing charge, that bit we pay independent of consumption, has risen by around 250%! From about 25p/ day to 90p/day for a dual fuel household.Quite stiff payment for households on a tight budget trying to save £ by turning down heating. Pay all year round regardless

UK energy affordability crisis “result of a privatised system that lets energy companies- in particular network operators- make excess profits coupled with an over reliance on imported expensive gas”. Plus a huge expensive backup capacity infrastructure for renewables www.jrf.org.uk/cost-of-livi...

In 1975 new graduates had something like a 15% chance of entering a non-graduate job. By 2026 these odds had risen to almost 40%. A descending staircase for well over 25 years. Young people increasingly ‘sold a pup’ with a huge student debt price tag? Gov should write off ALL student debts

We have lowest number of graduate entry schemes since 2012 ,31k, yet with over 100k more graduating. But number of graduate schemes has never risen much above 53/yr, while graduate numbers have continued to sky rocket. Suggests driven more by commercialisation of universities than need for graduates

While we have more young people than ever graduating each year we are also recording increasing numbers unemployed, particularly since Covid with almost 50% citing poor mental health standout-cv.com/stats/uk-gra...

More mental health in young people has risen from around 15-17% in 2000 to as high as 27% in 2026. That more than a an alarming 1 in 4 young people. This mental health crisis among young people should be top of the government agenda. wecovr.com/guides/uk-yo...

Needs a whole systems approach. Housing,employment, fuel poverty etc. Gov gets this right would save the country £ billions as well as increase tax base in long run. NHS will help but it is a band aid applied to these deeper structural traumas ifs.org.uk/articles/can...

NEETs going up. Not unrelated to the rise in poor mental health www.ippr.org/articles/a-t...

IPPR published a graph on NEETs yesterday that shows just the post Covid rise in NEETs. But ,aside from Covid years, NEETs have been at pretty similar levels for over 20 yrs. A significant difference nowadays is NEET is more likely to be recorded as due to mental illness than actual unemployment.

Find AI more of a cleverish, frequently frustrating, sort of chatty tool, def no substitute for actual human intelligence. ”Co-pilot is an AI and can make mistakes’“ is an understatement. AI needs lot of double checking so gonna still be many jobs doing just that- graduate and non grad

UK energy prices to go up by a massive 13% from 1 July to 30 September for a ‘typical household’. Caused by higher wholesale prices for gas resulting from Middle East war. www.ofgem.gov.uk/news/changes...

Depends completely on parental but in and kids not otherwise lying if they set up their own account. Can see a whole youth subculture developing starting from basis of rebellion against internet age restrictions www.bbc.com/news/article...

Poor employment prospects, low household incomes, poverty, poor health, soaring rents and travel costs, rising food prices, benefit cuts- it goes on. Tackle these and give people hope in those old Labour heartlands or lose elections www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...

Create conditions for more decent and inclusive jobs, bring housing costs down, improve public health,address skills gaps and ensure access to affordable child care. This would significantly improve economic security and reduce pressure on the social security system. www.jrf.org.uk/social-secur...