Public Health Registrar. Formerly @HealthFdn. Ex-GMTS. @Arsenal. Views are my own & retweets are not endorsements.
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Anna Starling retweeted
📻@leonoramerry spoke to LBC this morning about these reform plans.
"We have a degree of skepticism that league tables are going to be the solution... we've been here many times before."
Listen from 2hrs 11min 👇
globalplayer.com/catchup/lbc…
Anna Starling retweeted
It’s a worrying level of clue-deficiency.
The first point about league tables is the tendency to game them. Alan Milburn really ought to remember this, given that he did it in 2003, as HSJ revealed:
amp.theguardian.com/society/…
Anna Starling retweeted
This feels very old New Labour and the danger for the Govt here is that this culture trickles down into dreadful toxic behaviours at local levels. Is it sowing the seeds of a new Mid Staffs type care scanda? Or is it necessary, overdue grip? #NHSP24
Today at #NHSP24 @wesstreeting
will deliver some of his "tough love" on NHS managers.
Failing managers will be denied pay rises or even sacked if they are “persistently failing”. He's also reviving performance league tables:
thetimes.com/article/8887bdf…
Anna Starling retweeted
In his speech later today, the Health Secretary is due to announce “zero tolerance for failure” reforms to the #NHS – including league tables and crack turnaround teams for failing providers.
Read our response from @Thea_Stein 👇 nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-it…
Anna Starling retweeted
Failing NHS hospitals to be named and shamed in league tables
Concerning as is the kind of approach which partly led to the cultural conditions surrounding mid staffs scandal
independent.co.uk/news/healt…
I know I'm shouting in to the void.
But why is there recognition that the NHS as a whole needs a ten year plan but hospitals will be expected to turn around systematic issues, that include extetnal factors out of their control, instanteously?
I don't use this platform much anymore.
But I think the below is a bad idea that likely won't be in the best interest of patients and will increase workplace toxicity.
I hope I'm wrong.
Will be interested to see who these turnaround teams will be.
bbc.com/news/articles/c1kn09…
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I don't use this platform much anymore.
But I think the below is a bad idea that likely won't be in the best interest of patients and will increase workplace toxicity.
I hope I'm wrong.
Will be interested to see who these turnaround teams will be.
bbc.com/news/articles/c1kn09…
Anna Starling retweeted
Reducing air pollution reduces the number of children admitted to hospital with asthma.
It also reduces health inequalities.
👇🏻 of interest @SadiqKhan @GreenpeaceUK @BolaOwolabi8
Fewer children admitted to hospital for #asthma as #AirQuality improves. ✅
Our new analysis shows how the past decade has demonstrated the clear health impact of implementing #AirPollution reduction targets.
👉nuffieldtrust.org.uk/resourc…
Anna Starling retweeted
Bit of a rant today I'm afraid. Rage at cutting winter fuel allowance, yet binning social care reform was infinitely bigger choice. Tory candidates say they want to reduce state, no ideas how. Govt goes on about £22bn "black hole" as if a surprise. Time to get serious. Please.
📰 It’s time to be honest about the funding of social care
The fury about ending the winter fuel allowance is a diversion from a much more important issue, @PJTheEconomist in @thetimes today.
thetimes.com/business-money/…
Anna Starling retweeted
Rachel Reeves says she will not take forward adult social care charging reform and the cap on care costs.
During the election campaign Wes Streeting said Labour were committed to the cap. 1/3
"One of the things we have committed to is the cap on care costs"
Shadow health secretary Wes Streeting agrees it's not "fair" that a viewer's mother has had to spend £430,000 during the seven years she has been living in a care home
#BBCLauraK bbc.in/4enPWLG
Anna Starling retweeted
Reforms to adult social care charging not happening. I presume this is the end of the "Dilnot" reforms which would have meant a cap on what people have to pay.
A dreadful shame. Another episode in generational failures to fund and reform social care.
Anna Starling retweeted
Apparently "Diageo and the UK Men’s Sheds organisation will "facilitate informed conversations about the causes and consequences of harmful drinking." Important to know, @UKMensSheds, that Diageo has promotes extensive misinformation about alcohol and health - cancers, CVD,etc
Anna Starling retweeted
Darzi is back (again).
Some thoughts 👇 on where his review team should focus.
👀at how No 10/NHSE/DHSC/treasury work together in service of the NHS (or don't)👀
bmj.com/content/386/bmj.q164…
Anna Starling retweeted
1997: Royal Commission on long term care
13 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠 𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟...
2010: Dilnot Commission on funding care (recs legislated for in 2014 but implementation repeatedly delayed)
14 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠 𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟...
2024: Suggested new royal commission to fix social care
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Anna Starling retweeted
Here @NuffieldTrust we've been trying to understand if other countries have been able to recover and bring down waiting times since the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic crisis. Are other countries experiencing backlogs in the way that we are in England?
And if not, why not? 🧵
📊 NEW ANALYSIS: The #NHS in England is lagging behind other high-income countries on how quickly it is recovering from the pandemic when it comes to average (median) waiting times for hip and knee replacements.
@sjanereed & Theo Georghiou explore 👇
nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-it…
