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You’re telling me that right wing voters that Labour was trying to appeal to voted for a right wing party anyway and left wing voters decided not to vote for Labour because they’re too right wing now? Who could have possibly predicted this.

This is an really important new resource from @patientlibrary.bsky.social on how to spot red flags in UK health care for poor culture in health services.

Useful for patients, families AND health care teams.

www.patientlibrary.net/cgi-bin/libr...

tracker: www.patientlibrary.net/redflag/trac...

Patients’ groups and charities have told NHS leadership many times over decades what they want coordinated care to be like. Leaders have even adopted their goals and narratives. But the NHS is simply incapable of reorganising in response to expressed demand.

the most accurate sign ever

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Doctors urge government to fight poverty after rise in patients with Victorian diseases Survey finds vast majority of doctors are concerned at impact of health inequalities on their patients

A recent RCP survey showed that 89% of doctors are concerned about the impact of health inequalities on their patients, while 72% have seen more patients in the past 3 months with illnesses related to poor-quality housing, air pollution and access to transport. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Liz Truss now looks like an irrelevant amateur from some random country that has never had a proper trade war

@ouhospitals.bsky.social while you publicise amazing achievements, we enter the third hour of waiting for your pharmacy to deliver a simple prescription so we can leave and get home

Is that really a part time role?

If Trump was President in 1940

Eventually called by a nurse after 70 minutes and shown into a cubicle. Where we’ve since waited another 30minutes

@ouhospitals.bsky.social a wait of over an hour for scheduled appointment at the Trauma Centre outpatients this morning. Not really acceptable.

Look at Labour’s acts of environmental vandalism and ask: did I vote for this? | George Monbiot Our rivers, our wildlife, the air we breathe: the government is sacrificing all to the insatiable god of GDP – and mocking our objections, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Please repost if you agree with Ursula.

Home truths: the only thing Labour is building is a bigger, more dysfunctional housing market | George Monbiot Private developers offer politicians a simple solution for bulldozing through this crisis – build more. But it won’t work, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... an analysis of how the government’s housing policy will magnify rather than solve the crisis in housing for the less well off

📣Our "Learning from Experiences – A Person Centred Care Symposium" has been rescheduled from February 2025 to Tuesday, 20th May 2025.

👉For more information, please visit our website: bit.ly/Symposium2025, where you can find the latest updates and information about ticket prices.

Can group-based strategies increase community resilience? Longitudinal predictors of sustained participation in Covid-19 mutual aid and community support groups

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Given that the family came from Rwanda after the genocide of up to 1 million people, you have to wonder about the impact of generational trauma

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The 10 Year Health Plan: Our Recommendations | The King's Fund In this long read, we set out the key recommendations The King’s Fund is making to government to support the development of the 10-year plan and realise these shifts.

Our @thekingsfund.bsky.social submission to the Department of Health and Social Care's #10yrplanhealthplan - how to move towards the three shifts on #prevention, #careclosertohome and #technology and beyond - this is not just about the NHS... www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...

Text on a blue background reads: NIHR ARC South London, Patient and public involvement in health and social care: a toolkit. There is banner graphic of people in the community along the bottom.

Researchers at ARC South London have produced a new toolkit to support health and social care commissioning organisations to effectively involve patients and members of the public in their work

arc-sl.nihr.ac.uk/news-insight...

Commercial influences on patient and public involvement: a renewed call for research and action Abstract. Patient and public involvement is increasingly advocated in health policy, research and practice. Patients and people with lived experience, care

Our commentary on commercial influences on patient & public involvement is out today @healthpromint.bsky.social as part of special issue on the #CDoH. We hope to stimulate discussion & debate (& hopefully meaningful action) in this area

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'The headline measure of healthy life expectancy – an estimate of average years people live in good health combining life expectancy and self-reported health – showed little improvement in the decade before the pandemic, and is yet to return to pre-pandemic levels.' Fred Taylor, Senior Data Analyst and Dave Finch, Assistant Director, Healthy Lives at the Health Foundation

What is behind changes in health between the 2011 and 2021 censuses?

In a new blog, @davefinch.bsky.social and Fred Taylor explore what recent ONS data releases tell us about the scale of the challenge of improving health and reducing inequalities in the UK.

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New Christmas lights just went up in Clacton.

(Farage is still the MP who makes most money from second jobs. By a long way.)

This is important. Housing First as a core plank of population health improvement means not just ‘freeing up development’ but planning homes for people currently excluded by the market

Fairer funding for general practice in England: what’s the problem, why is it so hard to fix, and what should the government do? General practice funding is inequitable: the Carr-Hill formula, which decides the distribution of funding, is outdated and fails to take account of socioeconomic deprivation. This briefing, produced i...

The funding of #generalpractice is unfair and inequitable.

New @nuffieldtrust.bsky.social with the Health Equity Evidence Centre looks at why, why it matters, options to ‘fix’ the problem and makes clear what we think is the way forward.

www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/resource/fai...

And a v old ICYMI: Our attempt at unpacking #ROI of some #publichealth interventions relevant to #localgov - be clear on what's in the 'R' healthinnovationnetwork.com/wp-content/u...

Patient Revolution free webinar could be useful for @sallywarren.bsky.social & the new NHS plan - what it means to put person centred care into practice. (Clue: it doesn't mean focusing on waiting time targets.)