Findings show that fixing NHS admin still isn’t a core priority for healthcare leaders.
Chasing results, receiving delayed / incorrect info, who to contact? These problems, fall disproportionality on people with long-term conditions, low incomes or from ethnic minority backgrounds.👇 #inequality

AI at the surgery - great until it's not A new way for the NHS to foul up patient communication

open.substack.com/pub/rorycell... Getting an AI bot to triage phone calls to my local GP surgery seemed like a great idea – but faced with a complex case it turned into another case of NHS communication failure

I know... blink and you miss it! 💙

Early morning stroll across campus @manchester.ac.uk after early swim - so peaceful! ❤️
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Diversity of those included in tests / trials (including older people & those with multiple conditions), prevention, early intervention & tackling wider determinants of health are required - tinyurl.com/bddsdnf7
Shift from treating established disease to understanding & preventing its onset.

Health policy experts from all four UK nations being brought together to consider the progress, barriers, and opportunities for health policy, and to ask how the four nations can draw on each other’s experiences 👇
15th April 2026
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"Analytical capability takes many forms & comes from different places, but broadly refers to the people, skills & data needed to turn information into insight. It has significantly grown & changed in parts of the NHS & wider health & care system" - but do we have enough of this capability & a plan?

Healthwatch, ‘Unknown Unknowns’, And The Value Of A Friend Who Tells You The Truth | The King's Fund Following the abolishment of Healthwatch, we explore what must be considered when designing what comes next for patient voice.

In our latest blog, we argue that a patient experience function 'needs to be a friend who is prepared to tell the truth, even if that truth is uncomfortable.'

👉 Read now: www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-analysis/blo...

"The latest Which? consumer insight tracker found that price pressures were forcing half of households, an estimated 14 million, to make at least one adjustment – dip into savings, sell possessions or borrow money – to cover the cost of essentials on a daily basis" read more 👇

NHS restructure is greatest danger to Streeting’s effort to revive service Health secretary still confident of success but critics say scrapping of NHS England has been ‘a total car crash’

Major NHS reorganisation more trouble than it’s worth? Who’d have thought! www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

CONGRATULATIONS Shoba! Well deserved x

Sounds like very good progress!
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Research finds that "Digital systems can help some patients share info more easily, but they may also create barriers for those with limited digital access/complex needs & can make it harder for clinicians to assess risk & maintain continuity of care". More 👇

Lovely early stroll across @manchester.ac.uk campus (after early swim) this morning. Great pops of colour!
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"8,000 members of UK public aged 16 yrs & older, asked to weigh up five trade-offs that policymakers, NHS leaders, health professionals and AI developers may face".

"the public tends to prioritise safety, oversight and assurance over speed or economic opportunity". More 👇
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More prevention needed.
Analysis shows [NHS England data] that "people experiencing greater deprivation were 36% more likely to be admitted to hospital with pneumonia [...] These are patients more likely to live in damp, mouldy and poorly ventilated housing or areas of high air pollution".

Bumble bee in a purple and white crocus flower, covered in pollen

Not a Manchester bee but a NW bee none-the-less just enjoying the crocus and sunshine! 💜
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Nice colours around @manchester.ac.uk early this morning 🧡💜 even a few daffs 💛ready for St Davids Day - yes its March this weekend!
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Just a thought: if these sorts of proposed uses of healthcare data result in lots of people opting out of the use of their data for planning or research purposes, there's a risk this kneecaps public health and the NHS's ability to plan services and monitor inequalities in access to care.

New avoidable mortality data today from the Office for National Statistics, outlining 113,000 deaths that were avoidable through prevention or treatment, makes the case for a prevention revolution more important than ever.

www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...

These are nice too!

Tens of thousands more students join legal action over Covid-hit studies Sign-ups to Student Group Claim in England and Wales escalate amid reports of £21m payout by University College London

Universities were forced to pivot quickly to online teaching when all institutions went into multiple lock downs imposed by the government in response to a covid pandemic. 🧵

Stark statistics!
"decades of life spent in poor health, much of it during economically active years".
"increasing spatial inequality since the onset of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic" 👇
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Booster jabs reduce the risks of COVID-19 deaths, study finds 👇

Glorious weather this Sat - grabbed some fresh air with wildlife & amazing views at Delamere Forest
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"Vitamin D helps the body absorb calcium from the gut and regulates calcium and phosphate levels. These minerals are crucial for healthy bones, teeth and muscles"... "Unlike other vitamins, which we obtain through diet, vitamin D is made when the skin is exposed to sunlight" more 👇

"According to a recent review of past research: here are very few risk calculators to predict how symptoms of anxiety & depression will change over the course of a person’s life... Review shows effective models for predicting risk of persistent or worsening depression & anxiety are needed"
More 👇

"...costs – initially an extra £1bn over three years– will be borne by the Department of Health and Social Care, which funds the NHS in England, and not the Treasury"... "risk that the NHS may have to cut services in order to pay the 25% higher prices for new drugs that ministers agreed to" More👇

‘If I think about what this means, I want to cry’: what happens when a city loses its university? When Essex University’s Southend campus opened, it was a message of hope for a ‘left behind’ UK seaside town. Its closure will be felt far beyond its 800 students, some of whom will not get their degrees

‘If I think about what this means, I want to cry’: what happens when a city loses its university?

@jrf-uk.bsky.social UK Poverty 2026 Report 👇