One in 14 children who die in England have closely related parents, study finds Exclusive: Calls for ‘urgent action’ as study also finds stark ethnic and socio-economic disparities in child mortality and consanguinity

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Commissioning: lessons from the last 30 years and implications for the new role of ICBs Since its introduction in 1990, the commissioning layer of the NHS has been the most reorganised part of the health service, and it is changing once again. In this guest article, Nigel Edwards reviews...

🆕 The commissioning layer of the NHS has been its most reorganised part – and it is changing again. A guest article from @nigel-edwards.bsky.social looks at what needs to happen for ICB-led strategic commissioning to succeed where other models have struggled
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Greg has been making this pointfor some time. I am slightly surprised that people are just waking up to this. Often the major driver of projected future deficits is a large % term for non-demographic growth. It's often huge, and in the 100s of slides that often follow it is never mentioned again

US Freezes All Funds To Gavi Over Vaccine Preservative Thimerosal - Health Policy Watch The US government has frozen funds to Gavi, the global vaccine alliance, until it commits to a plan to phase out the preservative thimerosal from all the

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Also on audible I see - bought it!

Not that I am aware of. Not much incentive for government to commission research that makes it look bad!

Neighbourhood Health Guidelines 2025/26 - PPL Alongside the NHS Planning Guidance for 2025/26, NHS England has published further guidance on the development of neighbourhood working.  The intent is to accelerate the creation of a ‘neighbourhood h...

A relatively short piece of guidance, a huge work programme ahead for the health and care system to put the Neighbourhood into the NHS (the Neighbourhood Health Service, that is). @nigel-edwards.bsky.social & I assess the scale of the challenge for @pplthinks.bsky.social

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