1/3. A ground-breaking paper, & commentary, on @thekingsfund.bsky.social website today - using linked data on the connection between #health & #economy from @nhsengland.bsky.social & ONS on the economic #payback from meeting waiting list targets. Paper assets.kingsfund.org.uk/f/256914/x/6...
The 10 Year Health Plan has finally landed. So what happens now?
In this first episode in a new podcast series from The King’s Fund, Siva Anandaciva, @charwick.bsky.social and @sarah-arnold.bsky.social discuss what’s in the plan, what isn’t, and what comes next.
🎧 Listen now: buff.ly/ljeV2wV
The govt's 10 Year Plan for Health was published on Thursday - my colleagues @thekingsfund.bsky.social & I have analysed the key announcements, read here: www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...
The Department of Health and Social Care just published data on how much its quangos spend on staff.
It's interesting to look at spend per full time employee. Most expensive is MHRA then NHSE, least spent per full time employee is CQC and NHS BSA
Source: www.gov.uk/government/p...
There are many changes afoot to the way the NHS is organised. Alongside the NHSE abolition, ICBs - the organisations around which local service provision is commissioned - are facing huge cuts and existential questions. What does it all mean? I asked my expert colleagues here: shorturl.at/1LSQX
Every time I see this graph on poverty trends by group over time, it always strikes me that it is possible to change a group's poverty outcomes - just look at how pension poverty fell in the 1990s and early 2000s
Data here: www.ons.gov.uk/employmentan...
Economic affairs committee report into long term sickness and welfare here: committees.parliament.uk/publications...
There needs to be a focus not just on health, but how to create work that is flexible and suitable for people living with a health condition.
Not least because with an ageing population who are having to work longer, more and more people will have to grapple with working with a health condition.
Not least because last time there was a successful concerted effort to bring down the waiting lists (in the 2000s), there was a decline in number economically inactive due to long term sickness - but the decline wasn't too sizeable, and the number of people never fell much below 2 mn...
Latest labour market data from ONS today shows 2.83 mn people economically inactive due to long term ill health -second highest level ever.
But like the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee who reported yesterday I'm skeptical that bringing down NHS waiting lists will help much... 1/
It blows my mind that in many parts of the country healthy life expectancy is below state pension age. Depressing but important analysis from @jamie-ohalloran.bsky.social @ippr.bsky.social
www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitne...
Is the NHS' elective recovery plan achievable?
If NHS leaders throw everything at it, it might just be achievable, but doing so will leave them little energy or resources for anything else.
Read more here: www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...
