'UK capital spending on health has fallen to half the OECD average since 2010. New fiscal rules must allow more.' Typically sharp and relevant from Jennifer Dixon

Huge thanks to the wonderful editors who worked on these pieces - Esther Bintliff, Nicola Davison and Elizabeth Pears - and to peerless data maestro Amy Borrett!

Revealing interview with ⁦Wes Streeting MP⁩ by ⁦Anna Gross⁩ and ⁦Sarah Neville⁩ on.ft.com/3vtWYgj

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Ahead of one of the NHS's toughest winters, data shows it's under immense pressure. Each month >100k people are waiting in A&E for >12hrs, bed occupancy has exceeded 90% for 2yrs and no part of England is meeting ambulance response targets Sarah Neville Financial Times ft.com/content/54bd08…

New - ⁦Jeremy Hunt⁩ and ⁦Mel Stride⁩ target Britain’s growing mental health crisis at the coming Autumn Statement. Including some striking charts on the scale of the problem. With ⁦Sarah Neville⁩ and ⁦Anna Gross⁩ on.ft.com/3E9NPdA

I went to work on an NHS Liver Wing. The reality was far weirder than I imagined ft.com/content/6c4338… 'We were given 30 minutes for lunch, but it took 10 to get out of the building and 10 to get back in...' Brilliant, bleakly funny piece on life in the NHS by @yoelnoreally

A GP’s prescription for the NHS at 75 ft.com/content/ccfa05… '[O]ther countries have quietly produced effective primary care systems and content GPs'. Margaret McCartney excellent on the changes needed to bolster UK general practice.

I recommend this book charting the service's first 75 years which is full of insights and ideas I haven't read elsewhere...

Our FT Weekend Magazine cover story is a tour de force by Sarah Neville, profiling an extraordinary scientist, Shanna Swan, PhD and why she's warning of a global fertility crisis on.ft.com/43TB6H1 🧵

More people are getting cancer younger. Great reporting@FT. Lucky diagnostics are racing on: cost of cancer to 2050 “equivalent to an annual tax of 0.55% on global gross domestic product”. Challenge is to adapt treatment practices to make them sustainable on.ft.com/3qNtzLt

Peter Foster Sarah Neville Financial Times And be very clear, had the govt’s funding kept pace with the aging population then these waits would not be happening.

Glad to see the important issue of the capacity crisis in cancer services covered in the FT Sarah Neville ft.com/content/b22e21…

Rishi Sunak is hosting all Tory MPs for a No 10 garden party on Monday eve, replete w/ pies from his seat

Govt insiders hope post-Coronation bash will boost MPs' morale after dire local elxns

FT Weekend read on PM's strategy w/ Chris Giles & Sarah Neville

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Excellent thoughtful article by camilla cavendish which avoids the easy (& wrong) answers

My 20-year journey through the NHS ft.com/content/52fc83…

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How we got here: squeezing all other socially necessary funding, plus multiple reorganisations as a politically easier alternative to changes in NHS funding: words and charts ⁦from ⁦Sarah Neville⁩ ⁦⁦Federica Cocco⁩ ⁦Ella Hollowood⁩ on.ft.com/3JCcoDU

More money alone may not solve all of the NHS's challenges, but spending even close to as much as our peers would be a good start.

Vital work from @AnitaCTHF The Health Foundation in a great Sarah Neville story.