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Posts by Alice Semark

🌟@re-state.bsky.social is hiring a Research Assistant🌟

If you’re keen to develop your research skills, passionate about public services and enjoy a collaborative, fast-paced environment, you should apply!

This 6mo paid internship is a brilliant and rare opportunity. Check it out👇

7 months ago 1 1 0 0

You might be surprised to know there's no easy way for clinicians in different NHS orgs to communicate with each other... I certainly was!

The 10 Year Plan talks a big game on shifting care into the community, but this won't be possible without communication💻

Check out my Re:Think blog👇

9 months ago 2 0 0 0

🚨NEW REPORT🚨
It's no secret hospitals are at breaking point. A radical rethink is desperately needed.

Our 21 recs outline a new vision – emphasising virtual care, communication tech and care pathway redesign.

Read our new report for our big ideas👇

11 months ago 3 2 0 0

🧠ADHD is widely misunderstood — shrouded in myths, dismissed as a "fad," and often ignored by policymakers.

Yet it's linked to socioeconomic issues, numerous health problems and lower life expectancy.

If Gov is serious about its prevention shift, it must act!

Read my myth busting blog below👇

11 months ago 1 2 0 0
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Building state capacity for economic growth - REFORM

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1 year ago 0 0 0 0

Today @reformthinktank.bsky.social published a short, punchy paper with @labourgrowth.bsky.social, a group of 100+ Labour MPs committed to boosting growth📈

Together we set out 9 steps the gov needs to take to reform the civil service, setting up this country for economic growth!

Check it out 👇

1 year ago 1 0 1 0
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Where are NHS England's powers going? - REFORM

Last week, the PM announced the abolition of NHS England. And at @reformthinktank.bsky.social we were very pleased to hear this!

But now, important questions about who will take over NHS England's responsibilities need to be decided.

Read my thoughts on this👇

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1 year ago 1 1 0 2
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& I am very excited for our first event next week, a roundtable on preventing illness with Tom Riordan CBE!

I can't wait to get started on this important work 💪

1 year ago 0 0 0 0

In many policy areas, prevention is key. This benefits individuals, society, the economy, public finances and public services.

But the tricky bit is how...

This is why @reformthinktank.bsky.social, with Newton, are launching an exciting new programme, 'Building the preventative state'.

1 year ago 0 0 1 0
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Close enough to care: A new structure for the English health and care system - REFORM In Reimagining Health: a framing paper, Reform set out the case for a radical new approach to health. Close enough to care is the first of a series of papers setting out root and branch reform of the ...

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1 year ago 0 0 0 0

The abolition of NHS England is an amazing first step to fix the NHS!

But it won't be enough on its own.

@rosiebeacon.bsky.social's report was the FIRST to call for the abolition of NHS England & explores the other structural barriers which need to be overcome.

Check out the full report below👇

1 year ago 0 0 1 0

In April last year @reformthinktank.bsky.social called for NHS England to be abolished. This was big, bold, controversial and seen as very unlikely to happen.

Today the PM announce this very thing! 🪇

You heard it here first!!!

1 year ago 0 0 1 0

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1 year ago 1 1 0 0

Thrilled to see our recent public bodies research featured on Page 2 of @thetimes.com today! 📰

& ahead of the PM's speech tomorrow, it is very encouraging to see these indications government will try to properly grip the public bodies landscape.

1 year ago 0 0 0 0

This is v v good news, and exactly what we called for in our recent paper 'Quangocracy'

The current public landscape is generally poorly understood, lacks meaningful oversight and accountability, and actually makes delivering for the country harder in too many cases

1 year ago 5 3 1 1

"It’s clearly unacceptable for sponsorship of bodies which spend billions of pounds to be deprioritised in Whitehall."

My first op-ed!! Published today in @civilserviceworld.bsky.social, on @patrickking.bsky.social and my new report, 'Quangocracy: The future of public bodies' 😎

Read below!

1 year ago 0 0 0 0

'Quangocracy' dives into the public body landscape, revealing alarmingly poor quality public body oversight is the norm and setting out our recommendations.

My first report for @reformthinktank.bsky.social's 'Reimagining Whitehall' workstream, with @patrickking.bsky.social!

Check it out👇

1 year ago 0 0 0 0

Last week, I had an amazing time visiting @cuhnhs.bsky.social and @royalpapworth.bsky.social, seeing some of the most cutting edge, innovative ways they deliver hospital care!

Thank you to everyone who hosted @rosiebeacon.bsky.social and I, we learnt so much 🧠

And I wrote a blog about it all👇

1 year ago 1 2 0 0
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Innovating for Independence: a win-win for health and social care - REFORM

It is no secret our social care system is at breaking point.

And without reform, this will only worsen!

Insert: an exciting new @reformthinktank.bsky.social report looking at the potential of tech in social care delivery!

Check it out👇

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1 year ago 1 0 0 0

Is the consensus serotonin imbalances cause depression wrong? What would this mean for the use of antidepressants?

Given the vast prescribing of antidepressants (to 15% of people in England last year!!), these are important Qs

Read about it in my blog this week 👇

1 year ago 0 0 0 0

Very proud of our ‘Hospital of the Future’ work and excited for the next papers in the series!

Check out the framing paper below👇

1 year ago 0 0 0 0
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It’s 🎄Christmas Day 🎄 @reformthinktank.bsky.social & we’re kicking it off with homemade cookies from @alicesemark.bsky.social

1 year ago 3 1 1 0

New @reformthinktank.bsky.social report 🏥

Very excited to share the launch of my first think tank report, the initial framing paper in our ‘Hospital of the Future’ series!!

Hospitals are in crisis, the diagnosis is below…

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