It takes time for early action and intervention to work. All the people who weren't treated early still need to be treated. So we can't, yet, reduce money to hospitals. We need to spend more on prevention - more overall - and let hospital costs fall naturally in the future. But this is expensive.
"NHS budget is not being spent where it should be - too great a share is being spent in hospitals, too little in the community" "Prevention is better than cure. Interventions that protect health tend to be far less costly than dealing with the consequences of illness" www.gov.uk/government/p...
Lord Darzi's report on the state of the National Health Service in England.
Is welfare spending 'out of control'? My dive into why this is a misleading claim... open.substack.com/pub/inequali...
Why this is a misleading claim, and how to understand the more complex reality...
Pete Apps' post ahead of the publication of the Grenfell report is well worth reading. Pete's journalism on this issue has been groundbreaking and exemplary. Few others understand the intertwined failures of state, regulation & commercial interests to the depth he does. (I must get Pete on here...)
The final report of the Grenfell Inquiry is published tomorrow - Peter Appsâ summary of what to expect is well worth reading: open.substack.com/pub/peteapps...
What does the report need to say, and what will its content mean for the chances of justice and change?
"84% of zero hours contract workers want regular hours". Absolutely key! Often workers opt into zero hours because they need a kind of flex that's hard to get in more secure roles (e.g. because of child care/health conditions), but result = struggle to plan finances and commitments.
Compressed hours is not a four-day week. A real four-day week means 32 hours with no reduction in pay. Our piece for Tribune. tribunemag.co.uk/2024/09/we-n...
Labour's plan for workers to cram a full week's hours into just four days is not a four-day week. A real four-day week means 32 hours with no reduction in pay.
đŠââď¸For the first time the public include ÂŁ200/yr for health costs like private dentistry, physio & counselling, because they no longer think itâs a given you can access them in good time on the NHS. And those on low incomes are bang out of luck because⌠www.theguardian.com/society/arti...
Joseph Rowntree Foundation points to âcritical shift in expectationsâ and says most people now budget for many routine services
Excellent! I'm currently waiting by the #GreenbeltFestival Box Office whilst someone else sorts out what happens next. There's phone signal here, which is a good start. The weather is also warmer and dryer than it was when I left home a few hours ago.
There's not much phone signal at Greenbelt, so my recent entrance onto Bluesky may be somewhat hampered.