I can’t wait to get my hands on a copy of this. Every Julia Webb collection is stellar and they just get better ❤️ #PoetrCollection

“The Casey Commission gives us a real chance to build momentum for lasting reform,” writes ADASS President, jess mcgregor for Care Talk. #socialcare #CareCantWait

The Department of Health and Social Care's #10YearHealthPlan is now with us and we all helped to shape it. Read my new blog on how #socialcare nursing and the wider care sector can engage positively with its ambitions for a stronger, safer and sustainable health and #care system: socialcare.blog.gov.uk/2025/07/04/the…

The much-anticipated 10 Year Health Plan has finally landed. But what happens next? At our event in September we'll be exploring the actions and decisions needed to realise the ambitions set out in the plan and transform the health service. Find out more: kingsfund.org.uk/events/ten-yea…

'And what is, of course, massively missing is any reform of a desperately underfunded #socialcare system on which the NHS relies' - thank you, Nicholas Timmins #nhs10yearplan instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/nhs-10…

Hurray - it’s here - Weekend Reading then - thanks ⁦Nine Arches Press⁩ and the brilliant ⁦Julia Webb⁩!

GREY TIME has arrived. Here's a blog post by Julia Webb discussing a stunning sample poem, its origin and development. 'The Hare' explores grief, journeys, animals and nature in the visceral, immersive way that Julia writes so beautifully: ninearchespress.blogspot.com/2025/05/in-con…

The government's 10 Year Health Plan has a lot riding on it, but can it deliver its ambition to improve patient experience, promote technology & shift care into the community? Our team has scrutinised the detail & shared our analysis in a new explainer. kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-an…

I am looking forward to this immensely!

So happy to bump into James Bullion Local Government Association (LGA) Conference in Liverpool last week.

This is coming up on Monday!

It’s nearly time for our annual open mic event in Norwich’s beautiful Plantation Garden! We hope to see you there on 16 August. ☀️🌹💐🌸🌺🌷🌻🌼 All details on our website cafewriters.co.uk/saturday-16th-…

This year cactus Nigel seems to have gone for single full size child, smelling beautifully of a kind of bergamot

Confirmation that #NRSHealthcare is being wound up. It was a major supplier of a wide range of equipment, such as wheelchairs, walking frames + complex health aids, to NHS & councils. Local authorities spent last few weeks getting plans in place to try to limit disruption.

Holiday read, Greuze; a moralist with a passion for lovely shoulders, and a self obsessed, impertinent, shoe kissing adorer, and hapless husband of an apparently embezzling wife, savings swiped by the revolution and died penniless, appropriately enough, in the Louvre.

🖥️Care England Launches SMART Care Intel "At a time of growing pressure & complexity in adult social care, this platform gives our sector the clarity, confidence & capability it needs to thrive.” Click to read more from our CEO Prof. Martin Green OBE: careengland.org.uk/care-england-l…

Holiday read. A dip in sort of book, with many good essays. As a lad I'd buy these sort of books as primers. This short Franklin essay on Tryants is still relevant. 'Trust not a single person with the government of your state'

Two iconic German cars in Bristol this morning.

This is poignant worth the rereads

Holiday read. EP Thompson was absolutely core to my economics and history degree with his Making of the English Working Class etc, but also his modern politics and nuclear disarmament writing in the 1980s. This book distils and delights.