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My offering on this years’ Summer Exhibition: number 461:’ I can’t breathe: Covid; NHS’ using my other name Jennifer Vorhaus. Proceeds to NHS charities
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‘How can we afford the NHS?’ might be better posed as: ‘Why is the economy not large enough to support a comparatively cheap health system like the NHS? And why are higher taxes off the table to pay for it?' (5/12)
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V very big thank you for all the wonderful and generous messages. It’s a collective effort and recognition and my thank you to all of you for support and collaboration over the years.
Also remembering all those working in the NHS recognised for their tireless work for us all.
Congratulations to our brilliant CEO
@JenniferTHF
on being made a dame in the King’s New Year Honours List.
Read more 🔽
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Post PAC, check these international comparisons. The facts speak...
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Conservative leadership candidates are proposing tax cuts to boost economic growth.
Yet the UK already has lower tax intake than many other countries in Western Europe… and lower GDP...🧵 (1/12)
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And the audience very politely complied - thank you all
At a busy
#Lab21
fringe event on ‘the future of social care’ and Dr Jennifer Dixon from
@HealthFdn
starts by politely asking the audience to wear a mask if they can to protect themselves and others - first time here I’ve seen the majority of a room wear one
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...wait time for hip replacement in Berlin: 1 week (listen out for our next podcast episode...)
In UK: median wait for orthopaedics elective care: 16 weeks.
You get what you pay for.
(4/12)
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...lower GDP means less spent on health care.
GDP (2020)
Germany: £3.2 trillion
UK: £2.2 trillion
And it shows..
Total health spend per head (2020)
Germany £4,723
UK: £3,326
(2/12)
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If it wasn’t already obvious, we outline the obvious
With the increasing possibility that the UK will leave the EU without a deal, we have joined
@TheKingsFund
&
@NuffieldTrust
in writing to MPs to outline four areas where a
#NoDealBrexit
could cause significant harm to health and care services.
Read now:
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Instead a crude meme is: 'the NHS is an inefficient blob, curb spending growth and reform it’.
But we don’t prescribe that for industry to boost limp productivity – instead we talk about long term investment in tech and skills. (6/12)
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Are there no women in France or the UK?
En marche ! Great meetings with French counterparts today
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As
@ProfBrianCox
tweeted... ‘You can convince people to vote to abolish gravity, but they will be very pissed off with you when they hit the ground’. (12/12)
You can convince people to vote to abolish gravity, but they will be very pissed off with you when they hit the ground.
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Brexit may mean ‘nursexit’: 96% drop of EU nurses registering to practise in the UK since July 2016
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And this is the picture in health care
Potentially useful chart for understanding why bits of concrete are falling from the ceilings of British schools
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THANK YOU King’s Fund for making room for my daughter and I to join you in today’s fabulous Pride parade. Proud to join KF colleagues ( and a few others!)
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Just had first Covid jab, in GP surgery car park, GPs in bobble hats, kindly volunteers, extremely well organised. Thank you so much NHS
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Facts matter
In today's
@thetimes
,
@profchrisham
@JenniferTHF
&
@nedwards_1
correct a claim in last week's
#Budget2018
coverage. The UK does NOT have the highest healthcare spending as a percentage of GDP in the EU. The UK is not a big spender on healthcare compared to other nations.
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Meantime a five year backward view for public health - large cuts in spending including in the most deprived parts of England ( eg Knowsley 38% cut)...
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Excess deaths in UK 2020 is very high. But so is the number of excess deaths in a non-pandemic year associated with deprivation. Slower burn health insults are as important as acute insults like COVID
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The new PM will need to face the nature and scale of the challenge in the NHS. Or face huge political risk.
In 1998 the risk was waiting times, now add the results of chronic underinvestment in primary and social care.
So a triple risk... (7/12)
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Robert Koch Institute: Founded in 1891; all past presidents were professors with relevant scientific background... a million miles away from our transient national organisations.
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Typo spot of the day ‘ we need to reduce excess morality caused by the pandemic’....
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NHS also needs support and investment in leadership, management and capital to innovate, deliver care better and boost productivity. And labour-saving technology. Just like businesses… (9/12)
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A year on from
#lockdown
, new analysis from
@HealthFdn
reveals the devastating scale of loss in the pandemic, with 1.5 million potential years of life lost to
#COVID19
in the UK and each life cut short by 10 years.
Read more 🔽
1/11
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The current reforms to
#socialcare
funding do not go far enough to protect people from catastrophic care costs. Much more is needed beyond this to ‘fix’ the sector and reduce avoidable high costs on the NHS. (10/12)
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Yes this really is a bad idea, and rightly and comprehensively dismissed every time it has come up over the last 30 years…
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
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Some objections to the Times leader yesterday and related ….
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The £ commitments made to the NHS and social care will need to be honoured to reduce NHS waiting times, boost primary care and to deliver the planned reforms to the social care cap.
(8/12)
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Thanks to our fabulous team on the stand at NHS Confed Expo this year. And glad our publications were nearly as popular as our free totes😎
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Plse apply- these are great roles to make a difference
We have three exciting new (fixed term) opportunities to work on our inquiry into COVID-19, health and health inequalities:
➡️ Senior Research Fellow
➡️ Research Fellow
➡️ Programme and Policy Officer
Secondments are welcome.
Find out more!
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Maybe today’s planning guidance was more interesting than I thought
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Levelling Up? Will need to be a 30 year commitment. Does government see itself as a long term investor?
NEW PODCAST: In the UK, life expectancy is lowest in Glasgow. Why is this? And what can we all learn from longstanding efforts to improve health there?
@JenniferTHF
discusses with experts
@HarryBurns16
& Dr David Walsh in our latest episode.
LISTEN ⬇️
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More dither and delay on social care...
The absence of any clear policy on social care in today’s
#ConservativeManifesto
is a shameful omission for a party that’s been in power for nearly a decade, says
@JenniferTHF
Read our full response:
#GE2019
|
#SocialCare
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Clearly we will send a copy to
@hmtreasury
Our new analysis explores how failure to invest in the nation’s health is storing up problems for the future.
We’re calling for a whole-government approach to
#CreatingHealthyLives
Read our thread below 👇
And download the full report:
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Will ‘levelling up’ be a priority for the new leader?
To stem growing demand for care and invest in the nation’s future prosperity, governments can’t duck a serious focus on improving health, and health inequalities.
(11/12)
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Joint the dots please HMG
'Promotion of cheap tobacco and alcohol by
@hmtreasury
runs counter to the government's stated objective of preventing ill health and reducing inequalities.' says
@JenniferTHF
Read our response to the announcement of return of EU duty-free now:
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Public Health England in the thick of it
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Set this alongside test and trace
This year's
#PublicHealth
grant allocations represent a 24% real terms cut compared to 2015/16.
Government needs to restore the grant to previous levels by investing an extra £1 billion a year.
Read our response to yesterday's announcement 👇
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At the UN Economic and Social Council meeting last week on the question of how can there be faster progress on achieving the 17 SDGs. And on another floor close by is the UN Security Council chamber..
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It’s bleedin’ obvious
Top health charity boss
@JenniferTHF
: NHS performance ‘middling’ in Europe due to ‘bleedin’ obvious’ lack of funding
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Yes I remember well being cornered by a mansplaining academic describing to me in detail an article I was the main author of .. then cited the second author (male) who had written precisely one sentence...
am reading Invisible Women by
@CCriadoPerez
but I have to ration myself to a few pages a day as it makes me somewhat angry and sad. and there's so much to take in - every page is a bookmark page! everyone should read this book.
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Our finding from Grampian
A properly jaw-dropping stat: almost one-in-four 16 year olds girls have been in contact with NHS mental health services in the past year (2021/22 data). It was more like one-in-nine four years earlier (when the data starts).
via
@TomWatersEcon
@Heidi_Karj
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This can’t be said too many times ..and why is there so much indifference
Public health grant cuts 'worst in poorest areas' - BBC News ‘The cuts have exacerbated long standing health inequalities between rich and poor, north and south’
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‘Reasons to be cheerful’ ..podcast on the NHS out next Mon ..
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What investors can do to boost health capital rather than just economic capital
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Thank you Norman for your outstanding leadership and commitment to health and social care over the years. It’s been a privilege to work with you
Today, as I spoke in Parliament for the last time as MP for North Norfolk, I thanked my wife, Mary, our two sons, Archie and Ned, my staff, local party activists and the people of North Norfolk for the support they have given me. I have appreciated it enormously.
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Balanced piece on current life at the NHS front line
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Can’t be emphasised enough
'Immigrants should not be blamed for pressures in the NHS. The reasons – unsurprisingly – are far more complex.'
Existing research tells us that international migration is good for the NHS.
@HughAlderwick
&
@LucindaRAllen
explore the evidence:
#GE2019
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Govt to announce a single NHS workforce strategy - they listened....
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Congratulations to Mary and colleagues for a terrific launch this evening in Cambridge. And a very big thank you to the many who helped to bring THIS into being.
@JenniferTHF
and Paul Batalden rightly recognising the efforts of many people past and present at the
@HealthFdn
and in the improvement science development group that sowed the seeds for
@THIS_Institute
#THISLaunch
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Christina nails it
THREAD: Key points from my overview of latest
#COVID19
numbers in the weekly
@IndependentSage
briefing. Firstly, for the first since 11 April, the 7 day daily average of new cases has gone up every day for the past week... 1/10
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Our take on key elements of an approach in the NHS to quality improvement
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Policy team REALLY nice (and talented)..(and the coffee’s good too)..
Come and work in our policy team
@HealthFdn
Research officer job:
Senior fellow job:
We're nice and it'll be fun
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Nice to see Sciana Fellow Dr Vin Diwakar speaking at a Downing St briefing today
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Absolute potted gold from David Navarro on leadership .. and not the usual guff
Earlier this month, we were delighted to hear from
@davidnabarro
in a
#Sciana
webinar titled, "Tackling Chaos and Complexity: Health Leadership for a New Era." In this clip, Nabarro discusses health leadership, systems change and establishing trust.
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This is a must read for all frontline NHS staff if you can get to it
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A new networked and independent centre - an OBR for health - with funding for ten years. Being set up now. Just what many have been asking for to help with longer term policy and planning. Watch this space for further announcements.
This week, we announced the Health and Social Care Sustainability Research Centre.
There's £10m funding available over next 5 years for external research partners to work with us on drivers of long-term health and care sustainability.
Read more now:
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The future is female
70% of global health & social care workforce is female. Invest in women, invest in health workforce for health & growth
@ScianaNetwork
@helenamacarena
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Anyone serious about health shld read the excellent PHE report ‘Health Profile for England 2021’ - a wealth of data. And the below is worth repeating
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View from the top of the UNESCO building this evening - with the wonderful Sciana crowd
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Huge difference in mortality between those using mental health services and those not
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Key evidence all in one place - health impacts of both the pandemic and the response to the pandemic
NEW REPORT: The
#COVID19ImpactInquiry
lays bare the unequal impact of the pandemic and how the same crisis has fallen unevenly.
We highlight what’s needed from government in recovery to create a fairer, healthier and more prosperous society.
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..and with no gap in service. Deep respect for all our tremendous staff..
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In all the flurry about NHS financing this is just as if not more important.
Do young people have the mix for a healthy future?
Today marks the launch of our Young People’s
#FutureHealthInquiry
looking at the next generation’s health and wellbeing.
Find out more:
#YoungPeople
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The real news
Today's
@ONS
release highlights a 21.5-year gap spent in good health for women across local authorities in the UK, while overall healthy life expectancy is falling.
Cross-govt action is needed to ensure people are able to live longer, healthier lives:
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No health, no levelling up
Today’s Budget rightly focuses on coronavirus but longer term questions facing the nation’s health and care remain unanswered, says
@JenniferTHF
Read our full response to
#Budget2020
:
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More air time in the media about the football super league than this..
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Why didn’t the men give up?
It’s fascinating that almost all the consultants I’ve spoken to in the last week tell me their wives gave up on their chosen specialty or medicine in general after having kids
Why is it so hard for so many?
How can we learn concrete lessons from it? This is common thing.
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Odd yes but part of what is wrong in the UK
Our Brexit future in their hands. All blokes. Apart from the PM. Odd
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@hmtreasury
@hmtreasury
promoting booze and fags? Really? Don’t you want to curb growth in health care spend at least?
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“We don’t want to be consulted, we want to park our tanks on the hospital’s lawn” ...the growing power of online communities ..
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