Beccy Baird
@BeccyA
Senior Fellow in Health Policy @TheKingsFund interested in all things health policy but especially general practice
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23-06-2008 15:46:21
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'Why does the work of creating a more equitable future fall primarily to women when the weighted dice are thrown against us and not created by us?' Hong-Anh Nguyen asks in her latest blog: kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-an…
Must read blog: A Community In The Shadows: Experiences Of A Somali Community In Birmingham | The King's Fund kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-an… samira ben Omar ✨ Donna Hall ✨ Andrew McCracken Leonora Merry Neil Churchill Olivia Butterworth (She/Her) 💜 Merron Simpson Victor Adebowale
NHS England Here's a bit more about the idea of 'hancocks' caremanagementmatters.co.uk/feature/social…
Today, 10-tweet thread on Solutions from Beccy Baird @KingsFund #careclosertohome report [with a few added comments/questions from me] … 1st off, NO MORE RESTRUCTURING, grow primary/community care, work differently. [Focus on creating health?] (1/10)
Andy Brooks Roger Davidson Couldn't agree more Andy Beccy Baird great paper with more focus needed in :
Workforce
Planning Contracting and Delivering
Estate
Having spent the last few years trying to make this happen for older people there is still much siloed working, lack of prioritisation of primary…
Congratulations to Beccy Baird & colleagues for this brilliant, insightful The King's Fund report on #careclosertohome . I’m honoured to have been an advisor. V useful to have the blockers set out like this. Today, 10 tweet thread on the problems, tomorrow solutions & next steps (1/10)
‘Answer to over-crowded hospitals is not more hospitals’
People struggling to access primary/community care risk their condition deteriorating & having to get urgent help from over-stretched hospitals.
How to address this ?
New from The King's Fund
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A good summary from The King's Fund in its new report on community services and why this often touted ambition of better community care is always just one long term plan away:
It was great to contribute to this report from The King's Fund ...as always supported by excellent work from colleagues Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
We need to see 'a wholesale shift in the focus towards primary & community care across leadership, culture & implementation'
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🚨 Today The King's Fund has published a major new report from Beccy Baird Dr Deborah Fenney & colleagues examining why the long-held ambition to place greater emphasis on primary & community care has not been achieved & proposes solutions to finally make it a reality 🧵kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-an…