What health and care is about for me:

How do we make the smartest choices
about focusing limited resources
with partial knowledge,
to address the biopsychosocial needs
that best promote people's independence and wellbeing
with dignity care and kindness

Just published the "tax longlist" - 29 ways Rachel Reeves could raise £22bn.

I've tried to cover every serious proposal that's out there. This thread will be *long*.

There’s a massive class problem in the UK. Only 1 group is praised in the @GrenfellUnited report. The local community. We have a problem with services designed by middle/upper class people & think tanks for “those people” who live in social housing, draw on social care, benefits.

Our little country, in some special ways, is nothing short of awesome. #paraly

Should CrowdStrike pay out damages? Who to?

And there goes all workplace provides counselling...

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Who's got a good approach to tech debt in the NHS?

cio.com/article/250075…

Don’t forget what they have done. Partygate, the Covid contracts, the lies, the kickbacks.

The cronyism, the failure to invest, the division and scapegoating, the trips to the bookies, the Liz Truss mini-budget, the decimation of your public services.

Don’t forget any of it. 🧾

This is the Covid Memorial wall in London. It took me a full 10 minutes to walk its length in 2022.

Then, there were 197,635 Covid deaths.

Now, there are >230k. Boris Johnson’s unforgivable legacy.

Then, we had no power.

Now, finally, we do.

VOTE 👊

Voter registration by age is increasingly scewed to older people, and there are a heck of a lot more older people tgan there used to be....

Fingers crossed....

🚀 Exciting News! 🚀

@marcus_baw and @TomStocker14 will present their Clinical Digital Manifesto at the Let's Talk Digital conference on Oct 24th! 🎉

Register now!

letsdodigital.org/conferences/20…

Over 4 million kids - 30% of all UK children - now in poverty & still Labour won’t lift obscene 2-child benefit cap? Labour talks about 'hard choices' - but if this isn't a Labour priority, what is? Starmer says he won’t make unfunded pledges. So fund it theguardian.com/politics/artic…

The @UKLabour manifesto shows the party is still shadowboxing on #socialcare policy, with only one major policy - a fair pay agreement - and no detail even for that. Worryingly, there is nothing here that commits a Labour govt to concrete measures in its first term. Short thread.

BREAKING: UK economy flatlined in April - with growth slowing to 0% - as signs of recovery from last year’s recession fade.

A blow to Rishi Sunak’s hopes of signalling strong bounceback before general election next month @phillipinman reports theguardian.com/business/artic…

Amanda Pritchard shows her support for managers in the NHS. #NHSConfedExpo #NHSConfed

Politicians will get away with the things we forget, so here is a list of things to remember about the government's record on covid:
1. Over 230,000 died from covid in the UK.
2. They partied while we weren't allowed to see our loved ones. Thousands died alone.
...

Since 2010, government cuts to our public services mean the UK has lost

200 museums 🪙
750 youth centres 🏃
793 playgrounds 🛝
800 libraries 📚
1086 swimming pools 🏊‍♀️
1416 children's centres 🧸
8000 bus routes 🚌

And we wonder why the economy isn't working

FUND PUBLIC SERVICES

Government healthcare bodies spent £4,800,000,000 with tech suppliers in FY22/23.

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Tory tax avoiders using averages to misattribute tax reform to working families makes me ache inside.

Did you know Sunak was worth £500m, but only declaired £2m taxable income, and you'd expect 4% or £20m...

Just not fair.

Interesting demographic moment - or are these generatuonal differences massively overblown?