. BHRUT NHS 🏥 has the most improved performance in emergency care in the country. I visited this week to meet CEO Matthew Trainer and get a sense of how improvements are being made 🧵 1/5

It was great to host NHS England at the Hanover offices yesterday, bringing them together with clients to discuss the priorities for the MVA Directorate and how to improve partnership working in key areas like horizon scanning, regulatory pathways, data and medicines uptake.

Hoping The King's Fund podcast helps in setting out clearly where responsibility, accountability, contribution & influence roles sit in tackling health & healthcare inequalities
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The Arizona Supreme Court ruling allows an 1864 abortion ban to go into effect. There are no exceptions for rape and incest, and it threatens doctors and nurses with prison time.

It does not have to be this way. Congress must restore the protections of Roe.

Seriously chaps, I’ll do your comms for free in my spare rage against the patriarchy time (2am to 4.30am) because the all male doctor line up v the pictures of the women you’re selling the cosmetic surgery is not the conference look in 2024.

You might be thinking about Easter Eggs, but for NHS there is strong sense of Xmas. Planning Guidance published tonight -normally a run-up-to-Xmas-Eve experience. Publishing this close to Easter is indicative of Govt last minute+ short term approach to NHS england.nhs.uk/publication/pr…

Can't get over that there's been a *68%* increase *in one year* in the number of people who don't have enough food to *3.7 million* people and it's not anywhere near the biggest news story.

Today's poverty stats from the DWP are horrendous.

4.3 million children in relative poverty - the highest ever
3.6 million children in absolute poverty - up 300k

2.2 million children living in 'food insecure' households
820k children living in households that use foodbanks

New report from us today on the relationship between poverty and the NHS. Includes the sad and staggering fact that UK has seen highest increase in child poverty in 39 OECD countries. kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-an…

The figures have been massaged: respected The King's Fund says NHS performance data is being made to look less worse than it actually is because ‘targets had already been watered down from the standards set out in the NHS Constitution’. Says: ‘Five years ago, these numbers (1/3)

It shamefully took the Prime Minister more than 24 hours to finally say that the remarks by the Tories biggest donor that looking at Diane Abbott makes “you want to hate all Black women”, were racist.

As a Black female MP, I was shocked and horrified at the disgusting remarks.…

Helen Buckingham So let me get this right, in a scenario where A&E waits improve because discharge improves, it’s the acute trust that gets the money even if the whole system has worked together?

I absolutely despise Galloway but not keen on the PM calling voters' decision 'beyond horrifying'. It's on you to offer something better.

The excellent Helen Gilburt & colleagues The King's Fund have just published an epic new #MentalHealth360 - bringing together available data and insights.

Key takeaway for me - we need much better quality data to properly understand & improve mental health

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Tweeps:I just met a man on the bus. His name is Stuart & is holding a sign “I have learning disabilities and autism and I’m trying to find a charity that provides supported living in london. Please help.”

He tried men cap, but couldn’t help. Is there any org I can point towards?

The NHS’s “data-driven” understanding of what is going on is confined to the internal capacity & capabilities are able to measure.

There’s much more that can be measured than is currently but also a limit to what can be meaningfully measured too.

Sometimes people like to suggest that progress on women’s representation in politics is inevitable and that the job is done. It isn’t! 🙄😠

I suspect this would be headline news if the government was dismantling the NHS. Public health not so much even though it holds the answer to a sustainable NHS. There can’t be an NHS without public health. hsj.co.uk/policy-and-reg…

Rishi’s woke culture war jibe about trans people in the Commons today isn’t his first and unfortunately it won’t be his last. Words matter. And words from the PM really matter (contd)

I think Greg Wallace’s Saturday might be responsible for the next wave of feminism.