As part of the The Health Foundation's #NetworkedDataLab, we're working with Institute of Global Health Innovation and Imperial College London to to tackle the most pressing challenges in health and social care. Find out how we're putting children and young people at the heart of this work 👇 ow.ly/oJbW50Hz7t2

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Should we really aim to "eliminate" delayed transfers of care (DTOCs)? Our Health Data Research UK (HDR UK) research suggests not: it would require uneconomically large amounts of downstream community capacity, which would be idle much of the time Christos Vasilakis Jonathan Sterne link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Check out our work on prescribing for mental health conditions in children published today by the #NDL in Grampian team👏@WillBall12 Jess Butler Corri Black Katie Wilde Bārbala Ostrovska Dr Magda Rzewuska Díaz (she/her) Jillian Evans NHS Grampian Research Awareness Grampian @hsru_aberdeen

Great work by #GrampianDaSH team. It's been fantastic working with the #NetworkedDataLab team and seeing their outcomes and findings.

Bad idea Charges can reduce demand for health care, but that includes the care people need to stay healthy. The poorest and sickest suffer as a result Government already has a more efficient and equitable way of raising money for the NHS: tax. It could choose to raise more

Sajid Javid wants patients to pay for GP and A&E appointments. Tim Gardner writes about why charging for health care isn’t a credible fix for our NHS crisis in Prospect. Read more ⬇️ prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/nhs-h…

Against a long-term trend of rising hospital admissions, policymakers have had an enduring aim of slowing their growth. So it’s remarkable that between 2019 & 2022 admissions fell by 800k (12%). A thread. 1/16

This week, Labour pledged to get waiting times for planned hospital care back to 18 weeks, with 2 million extra appointments a year. Does this mean waiting list will fall by 2m pa? (A: It's not that simple) And are the plans feasible? (A: Yes but...) health.org.uk/news-and-comme…

🗳️ In a new blog Kathryn Marszalek analyses Labour’s #GeneralElection pledge to tackle the elective care backlog, exploring whether it’s achievable to eliminate 18-week waits within 5 years. Read the full blog 👇 health.org.uk/news-and-comme…

It’s hard to argue that NHS England’s A&E incentive scheme, which rewarded A&E performance in March with capital funding, is a good way of allocating capital. But did it succeed in improving A&E performance? The data and our analysis are in. 1/10 x.com/CharlesTTHF/st…

Analysis from Kathryn Marszalek on how the waiting list has fluctuated in recent years and where it currently stands. Read more ⬇️ health.org.uk/news-and-comme… #ITVDebate

Our The Health Foundation blog from Kathryn Marszalek on the future of the NHS waiting list is worth a read to put this #ITVdebate in context…health.org.uk/news-and-comme…

Waiting times are a central issue of this election, and The Labour Party is already claiming that they can repeat the feat of the 00s and reduce these waits. 1/6 x.com/wesstreeting/s…

This #CarersWeek we're highlighting the high personal and financial cost shouldered by unpaid carers. Our #NetworkedData analysis shows that of the 4.7 million unpaid carers in England in 2021, only 2% received support ⬇️ health.org.uk/publications/l…