Good luck to all the amazing, talented people today at Care Sector’s Got Talent! #csgt24

Really looking forward to this @DHealthLDN 🚀

We're thrilled to be listed as one of the @thetimes 100 fastest growing companies. Since launching in 2016, we now serve over a quarter of the UK's social care & have expanded into France & Canada. We're just getting started 🚀 https://t.co/LkqVPvEWG0 #SundayTimes100

With 75 years of the NHS coming up @DrCArmitage sat down with futurist @traceyfutures to discuss what the NHS could look like in 75 years... will we have robot nurses? 🤖 Find out here 👉 https://t.co/LjqqrDZP7e #NHSBirthday #NHS75 #FutureOfHealthcare

Congratulations to this month's star award winner, cool-headed Chris ⭐ W️e've recieved loads of wonderful feedback about how great he is to work with, especially when things get tough. Find out more about Chris here 👉 https://t.co/5VJIUzzq37 #Carer #values #healthcare

Looking forward to an action packed day at #innovationincare conference with @LaingBuisson. @WeAreFlorence represent 👊🏼

This is beautiful. I wouldn’t believe it was real if I didn’t know it was true.

EXCLUSIVE: Top tips to attract staff https://t.co/mfqTgeigVU via @HCareInsight @LogmyCare @DrCArmitage

More evidence on #Formification of Nursing Information - sorry forgot which Hospital this was from - note the folder bottom left likely has many pages @DrCArmitage

By this conclusion, the more money you spend on healthcare, the worse your healthcare system performs. #nhs #healthcare #care #economics

If you plot that ranking against spend on healthcare (as %age of GDP) you get an interesting conclusion. You'd expect a strong positive correlation (line going up and to the right). In fact you get a weak negative correlation.

What's clear from this is that, despite the current shit show, the UK doesn't score badly on markers like 'access', 'equity' and 'efficiency'. We do score pretty badly on 'healthcare outcomes' - probably the most important marker. The US scores terribly on everything. 🤔

This is from a 2021 report by the Commonwealth Fund. It ranks 11 different healthcare systems by performance against five parameters. - Access to Care - Care Process - Equity - Administrative Efficiency - Health Outcomes

In 2021 we spent 9.9% of GDP on healthcare. That’s up a lot from 2000 (5.5%) albeit with a big plateau over the 2010s. It also more than the OECD average of 8%. The solution is not as simple as ‘spend more money on healthcare’.

Become "inactive" (take a sabbatical) for six months. Return to work and enjoy not having to pay income tax for a year. But only if you're over 50. Yep, no holes in this policy idea...

This made me chuckle

We've just released some great new courses to Florence Academy. Check out our 'Introduction to Care' - our free course that shows what a career means in practice! https://t.co/IFSFHMsQP0

My trust has a policy of ‘no lockers for junior doctors’. Today the inevitable happened, and my headphones were stolen from my bag, which was on the floor of the changing room. Utterly demoralising and a direct consequence of inadequate provision of facilities.

If healthcare employers were able to offer more flexibility and higher pay within their own employment models then ‘agency’ would disappear. Ultimately it’s the same people doing the same job. It’s the system that’s wrong.

The NHS is a monopsony employer - there are few viable alternative to healthcare staff. This creates little competitive incentive on NHS employers to create good working conditions leaving people who are unhappy with their lot with little choice.