Little hand. Our youngest, Kit, is 3 months today.

Here Nuffield Trust we've been trying to understand if other countries have been able to recover and bring down waiting times since the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic crisis. Are other countries experiencing backlogs in the way that we are in England? And if not, why not? 🧵

Richard Sloggett Chris Smyth 1997: Royal Commission on long term care 13 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠 𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟... 2010: Dilnot Commission on funding care (recs legislated for in 2014 but implementation repeatedly delayed) 14 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠 𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟... 2024: Suggested new royal commission to fix social care 𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑡

Well said ⁦Sarah Woolnough⁩ ⁦The King's Fund⁩ per ⁦The Times and The Sunday Times⁩

Does anyone have any evidence of a Big Four consultancy bringing a part of the NHS - any part - onto a durably stable financial footing?

Darzi is back (again). Some thoughts 👇 on where his review team should focus. 👀at how No 10/NHSE/DHSC/treasury work together in service of the NHS (or don't)👀 bmj.com/content/386/bm…

@abbarkerpsych UK Men’s Sheds Association Apparently "Diageo and the UK Men’s Sheds organisation will "facilitate informed conversations about the causes and consequences of harmful drinking." Important to know, UK Men’s Sheds Association, that Diageo has promotes extensive misinformation about alcohol and health - cancers, CVD,etc

Reforms to adult social care charging not happening. I presume this is the end of the "Dilnot" reforms which would have meant a cap on what people have to pay. A dreadful shame. Another episode in generational failures to fund and reform social care.

Rachel Reeves says she will not take forward adult social care charging reform and the cap on care costs. During the election campaign Wes Streeting said Labour were committed to the cap. 1/3

Bit of a rant today I'm afraid. Rage at cutting winter fuel allowance, yet binning social care reform was infinitely bigger choice. Tory candidates say they want to reduce state, no ideas how. Govt goes on about £22bn "black hole" as if a surprise. Time to get serious. Please.

Reducing air pollution reduces the number of children admitted to hospital with asthma. It also reduces health inequalities. 👇🏻 of interest Sadiq Khan Greenpeace UK Bola Owolabi

This feels very old New Labour and the danger for the Govt here is that this culture trickles down into dreadful toxic behaviours at local levels. Is it sowing the seeds of a new Mid Staffs type care scanda? Or is it necessary, overdue grip? #NHSP24

I don't use this platform much anymore. But I think the below is a bad idea that likely won't be in the best interest of patients and will increase workplace toxicity. I hope I'm wrong. Will be interested to see who these turnaround teams will be. bbc.com/news/articles/…

I know I'm shouting in to the void. But why is there recognition that the NHS as a whole needs a ten year plan but hospitals will be expected to turn around systematic issues, that include extetnal factors out of their control, instanteously?

Failing NHS hospitals to be named and shamed in league tables Concerning as is the kind of approach which partly led to the cultural conditions surrounding mid staffs scandal independent.co.uk/news/health/nh…

In his speech later today, the Health Secretary is due to announce “zero tolerance for failure” reforms to the #NHS – including league tables and crack turnaround teams for failing providers. Read our response from Thea Stein 👇 nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/nuff…

It’s a worrying level of clue-deficiency. The first point about league tables is the tendency to game them. Alan Milburn really ought to remember this, given that he did it in 2003, as HSJ revealed: amp.theguardian.com/society/2003/d…

Thea Stein 📻Leonora Merry spoke to LBC this morning about these reform plans. "We have a degree of skepticism that league tables are going to be the solution... we've been here many times before." Listen from 2hrs 11min 👇 globalplayer.com/catchup/lbc/lo…

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