Seeing the same GP could help people live longer

Living in areas of England with more fully qualified GPs and better-funded surgeries also had a positive impact on life expectancy

2300 patients per GP up 500 since 2016

GP Funding cut 20% £/patient 🤷🏻‍♂️ independent.co.uk/news/uk/academ…

It stands to reason if you cut funding by 20% you are not going to get 20% more GPs.

Can’t see a GP, blame NHS England board and Government MPs

NHS England have again cut funding for GP Practices in 2024/25
A 2% increase in funding representing another 2% cut, after years of real terms cuts
Funding has risen from £153/patient/year in 2016 to £165, equivalent to a 20% cut £35
Enough for 2 extra GPs for an average practice

Another record high number of people not expecting to return to work due to disabilities & poor health in today's ONS stats at over 2.8m

That's an increase of almost 1m people over the last 5yrs - the human fallout of rising poverty, poor-quality jobs & crumbling public services

'There is a distinct blind spot about how school suspensions and expulsions perpetuate wider social inequalities'.

Conversion therapy took a lot from me: my health, my childhood, my family.

No one else should have to face what I did but I need your help to ban conversion therapy

Take 5 minutes tonight to complete the consultation - consult.gov.scot

We need every response we can get!

The problem here is there aren't enough consequences for managers who leave shifts unfilled.

Make employment unattractive, slash locum pay, you'll be praised for saving money.

Patients will suffer and die, but the link between rota gaps and deaths remains just ambiguous enough.

This analysis is the kind of critical thinking we need to see more of from journalists...

I see the ‘we don’t need the NHS, there are excellent insurance-based models in Europe we could follow’ stuff is doing the rounds again

Yes

But

We have predatory US corporations circling around us & politicians canoodling with them

We wouldn’t get a European model. Not a hope

So little of the debate about young people falling out of the labour market has focused on what it's actually like to be a young person in/looking for work

Margaret Heffernan does a great job here of conveying what a profoundly depressing experience that can be ft.com/content/4b16c3…

One frustration I have with the 'NHS is a money pit' argument is a lot of cost increases in recent years (worldwide not just UK) are the result of better treatments leading people to live (well) longer.

This is a good thing we should be willing to pay for!

Horrendous. Lives being harmed at long term cost for the families and the state. Central government has to step in with more support.

“Every disabled person who has been told by a stranger in Tesco that they would “rather die than be like you” knows, in the pit of our stomachs, what some of the public think about the value of our lives.”

My col. on Assisted Dying in tomorrow’s The Guardian theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Every SINGLE person who needs help deserves it. I don't care what kind of profile of ADHD or autism you fit. Seeking help is okay. Seek it. You are not to blame for a pervasive and systematic failure to support other autistic or ADHD people.

Very proud to be supporting this call for a properly funded long-term plan to tackle mental ill-health and commit to building #AMentallyHealthierNation led by
Centre for Mental Health⬇️

It’s very welcome to see the govt’s lies increasingly challenged by well informed and solutions orientated groups.

If govt insist on using household budgeting analogies to lie, we can use them to dispel them.

This should happen more often. Ministers (and their shadows) need to feel that there is a cost to refusing to answer the question.

This is shocking from Resolution Foundation's new report - young people's mental health in particular is so poor that it has completely distorted the age-disability gradient you'd expect to see

People in their early 20s are now more likely to be disabled than people in their early 40s

Councils need a new funding formula that ensures they can stay alive and keep providing essential services - this will be a major challenge for the next government

I've written more about the situation here

liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool…

It is local council budget setting season and many local authorities will once again be forced to bring in big council tax increases to try and plug ever gaping holes in their finances.

A quick reminder 🧵on why this regressive tax is such an unfair way to fund services