... a risk with focus on health inequalities is that it's seen as separate and only has 'moral value' when in fact it's core to Population Health & health improvement overall. The 7 actions KF wisely recommends are all relevant for Pop Health generally @thekingsfund.bsky.social

..I recently had experience of some of the advantages digital literacy etc brings when accessing GP and then admitted to hospital - www.linkedin.com/posts/fenton...

Andrew Fenton on LinkedIn: An Experience of Care | 11 comments

I ended up in hospital quite suddenly last Weds - GP appt at 9.50, over to Ambulatory Assessment Unit at the JR in Oxford by 11.15, and admitted to Neurology… | 11 comments on LinkedIn

Important research, though I can’t see the full content. Agree with the main conclusions around digital access routes likely to increase exclusion. The NHS Digital Inclusion Framework (which my team worked on) is relevant and could support mitigating the trend.. www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/in...

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Thank you - followed. Cat pics in thanks

It seems a convincing thesis, but as a mono-causal explanation of weak UK productivity it’s surely flawed. It says the UK isn’t ’penny pinching and short-termist’ but that’s exactly what ‘Treasury Brain’ delivers, and it completely ignores the toxic impact of rentier capitalism that blights the UK

We asked respondents to estimate the proportion of UK immigration in each of these categories [By giving them 100 points to split between 4 categories] Asylum: estimate 37% (actual: 7%) Family: estimate 17% (actual 6%) Work: estimate 26% (actual 40%) Study: estimate 19% (actual 38%)

…All that excellent evidence base given, it’s quite hard to *actually* demonstrate the effectiveness (never mind vfm) of interventions that are broadly focused on “preventing stuff”. Have you ever tried counting what doesn’t happen.”

…Neither of those things happened by magic. They happened because of wilful long term implementation of the right things, the right mix of clinical and PH interventions.’.. …

Great, rich blog Greg - it seems govt have had no problem implementing policies that have long term damaging effect on health (austerity, Brexit etc) but balk at policies that have long term beneficial impact, raising ROI as the challenge. And Treasury Brain is a big factor to counter.