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We’ve recently explored which technologies could save time in the NHS. But how might any time freed up be used?
Our new analysis highlights the need for realistic assumptions on how technology could free up time for patient care in the NHS ⬇️
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On
#NHS70
, a big thank you to all the people who help make the NHS what it is, from everyone at the
@HealthFdn
!
👨🏿⚕️👩⚕️🧕🏾👩🏻🔬👨🏽🔬👷🏻♂️👨🏿🔬👨🔧👨🏼🍳👩🏾🏫👨🏽💻
☕️
#NHSbig7tea
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How does the UK compare internationally for health funding, staffing and hospital beds? See our animated GIF:
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Our new analysis of the NHS waiting list shows that, on current trends, it could peak at 8m by summer 2024.
Read about how a decade of underinvestment in the NHS, chronic staff shortages and neglect of social care have undermined efforts to tackle it ⬇️
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Some ICSs have a high concentration of deprivation – nearly 50% of neighbourhoods in some ICSs are in the most deprived fifth of areas nationally.
Our long read explores health inequalities across ICSs and some of the challenges ahead ➡️
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NEW: How does the public view the NHS on its 75th anniversary?
A thread 🧵 of six key findings with
@IpsosUK
1. 54% of people said our national health service makes them most proud to be British, more than our history, our culture, our system of democracy or the royal family.
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NEW: We have £1.7m available for up to 23 clinical teams to test and develop innovative ideas and approaches to improve health and social care delivery through our Innovating for Improvement programme.
Find out how you can apply now:
#THFinnovate
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In the UK, future generations aren't estimated to live as long, with expectations of life span having fallen by 4+ years from 2010 to 2020.
And, within England, inequalities in life expectancy by deprivation have widened.
Read more in our new report 👇
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Today
@TheMarmotReview
launch
#Marmot2020
, and find that 10 years on from the landmark Marmot review:
➡️ life expectancy improvements have stalled (and declined for poorest 10% of women)
➡️ health gap between rich & poor has widened
Full report:
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Today we’ve published a learning report on organisation-wide improvement in health care.
Our report explains why improvement in health care matters, and how to get started in your organisation:
See below for the 6 key steps in the
#ImprovementJourney
👇
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Congratulations to our brilliant CEO
@JenniferTHF
on being made a dame in the King’s New Year Honours List.
Read more 🔽
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Today we launch a new edition of our
#QualityImprovement
made simple quick guide.
It's useful for those thinking about how to re-design or develop new processes, pathways and services as we shift from the emergency phase of COVID-19.
Take a look 📖⬇️
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NEW REPORT: The
#COVID19ImpactInquiry
lays bare the unequal impact of the pandemic and how the same crisis has fallen unevenly.
We highlight what’s needed from government in recovery to create a fairer, healthier and more prosperous society.
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The NHS has a wealth of data - but too few people with the skills to make sense of this data and improve patient care.
Our new report sets out why we need to invest in skilled analysts to unleash the power of
#NHSdata
.
Read it now:
#InvestInAnalytics
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Our analysis finds that the UK spent around one fifth less per person than comparable countries in the EU14 over the past decade, reported by
@BBCRosAtkins
on
@BBCNews
📺
See our full analysis on UK health spending 📊⬇️
We've got into the detail of long-term healthcare funding - and how decisions since 2010 connect to the severe pressure on the NHS now. And how funding compares with EU members. Produced by Michael Cox, Nicholas Barrett, Mary Fuller, Ellyn Duncan.
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Today we've published a new research report exploring the ways NHS organisations act as
#AnchorInstitutions
, and their potential to positively influence the health of local communities, beyond providing health care.
Read the new report:
#NHSanchors
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The UK would have invested £33bn more in health care capital (including technology & equipment) if it matched the average EU14 levels of investment over the decade before the pandemic.
Our analysis compares UK health care spending across Europe 📊 ⬇️
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Reductions in public health allocations have been greatest in the most deprived areas.
In Blackpool, ranked the most deprived area in England, the per person cut to allocations have been one of the largest at £33 per person since 2015/16.
Read more ⬇️
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NEW: Over the next two decades, cases of chronic pain, anxiety, depression and type 2 diabetes will increase faster in the most deprived areas compared to the least deprived.
Our future government must take action to boost
#HealthIn2040
. Read more 👉
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How does the UK compare internationally for health funding, staffing and hospital beds? See our animated GIF:
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NEW: People in the poorest areas of England have more diagnosed illness over 10 years earlier than those in the richest areas.
Our new analysis outlines wide
#healthinequalities
in England & also looks at ethnicity, age and religion.
Read more 🔽
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What makes us healthy?
Today we've published a new quick guide exploring how a person’s opportunity for health is influenced by factors outside the health and social care system.
Read online now or download for later:
#healthylives
#SDoH
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How good is the
#NHS
?
Read the first of our five briefings with
@TheIFS
,
@TheKingsFund
and
@NuffieldTrust
for the
@BBC
to mark
#NHS70
:
#austerity
#FutureNHS
@JenniferTHF
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In England, women in the most deprived 10% of local areas are expected to live 51.4 years in good health compared with 71.2 years for women living in the least deprived – a difference of 19.7 years.
Explore our chart:
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'Having a job is good for our health, but the quality of our jobs makes the difference.'
Duncan Selbie, Chief Executive,
@PHE_uk
.
For more on good work and why it's beneficial to our health, see our final
#healthylives
infographic:
#WorkLifeBalance
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To understand what makes us healthy, we need to look at the bigger picture:
🌳 surroundings
📕 education & skills
🔑 housing
🍎 food
💰 money & resources
🚝 transport
☕ family, friends and communities
🔨 work
Share our video and find out more:
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The NHS was never meant to go it alone when it comes to building a healthy society. Good health is also dependent on factors such as stable jobs, good pay, quality housing and good education.
@JoBibbyTHF
reflects how these are crucial to our health ⬇️
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Why are health inequalities and the social determinants often left out from the public debate about health?
Our new briefing on
#FramingHealth
with
@FrameWorksInst
gives insights into how the public think about what makes us healthy.
Read now:
#SDOH
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Existing evidence shows that immigration makes a positive contribution to the UK health service, says
@JenniferTHF
in response to today's debate.
Read our full statement:
#GE2019
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To understand what makes us healthy, we need to look at the bigger picture.
Watch our new animation about the factors that shape our opportunities to live healthy lives – from the work we do to the places where we live.
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#SDoH
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NEWS RELEASE: Health Foundation response to announcement from
@10DowningStreet
of funding increase of £20 billion per year to NHS England’s budget by 2023/24.
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Our new podcast series looks at the most important issues affecting the future of health and care for people in the UK.
Listen to an exclusive interview with
@Jeremy_Hunt
, longest-standing health secretary, and award-winning author
@NicholasTimmins
➡️
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Our analysis of
@nmcnews
data shows that month on month, registration of new nurses from the EU has flatlined between the
#Brexit
referendum result in June 2016 and April this year.
Read the full story:
#NHSworkforce
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There is a strong relationship between debt and health.
Our analysis highlights that 20% of people in problem debt report ‘bad’ or ‘very bad’ health, compared with 7% of those not in problem debt.
Read more ▶️
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#QualityImprovement
is about making health care safe, effective, patient-centred & efficient. Read our guide:
#QI
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On NHS's 75th anniversary, we're calling on political leaders in England to end years of short termism in NHS policymaking, and provide it with the tools it needs to succeed.
Read our joint letter with
@NuffieldTrust
and
@TheKingsFund
#NHS75
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In England, women in the most deprived 10% of local areas are expected to live 51.4 years in good health compared with 71.2 years for women living in the least deprived – a difference of 19.7 years.
Explore our chart 📊⬇️
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'People play a huge part in solving their own problems. Very often, this doesn't involve as much medicine as we think,' says
@olliehart7
.
Read Ollie's new blog on the power of
#selfmanagement
and
#healthcoaching
now:
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'Having a job is good for our health, but the quality of our jobs makes the difference.'
Duncan Selbie, Chief Executive,
@PHE_uk
.
For more on good work and why it's beneficial to our health, see our latest
#healthylives
infographic:
#WorkLifeBalance
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Smoking, poor diet, physical inactivity and harmful alcohol use are leading risk factors driving the UK’s high burden of preventable ill health and premature mortality
Our report reviews gov’t policies to address these factors and urges stronger action🔽
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Reductions in the public health grant have been greatest in the most deprived areas.
In Blackpool, ranked as the most deprived area in England, the per capita cut to the grant has been one of the largest at £43 per person.
Read more:
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Political choices are the root of NHS pressures, not the cold weather or seasonal flu, says
@TimGardnerTHF
.
Read our response to today's NHS performance statistics ⤵️
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Cuts to public health run counter to levelling up and threaten to widen already stark health inequalities.
Today with
@ADPHUK
and over 50 leading health organisations we call for urgent action on public health funding following years of underinvestment.
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We’ve awarded
@Cambridge_Uni
£40m to create a world-leading health care improvement research institute. Read more:
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NEW: Our report captures experiences of those working on the vanguard sites of the new care models programme.
Read it now or download for later:
#FutureNHS
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ANNOUNCEMENT: We're carrying out an independent review of health and
#HealthInequalities
in Scotland to provide a detailed analysis of health trends and wider factors influencing people’s health.
Learn more and sign up for updates 🔽
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We need a bold new approach from government that invests in the nation’s health.
Why? Because by 2040, 9.1 million people in England will be living with major illness, placing strain on the NHS.
Read our new
#HealthIn2040
report 📈
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We welcome
@MattHancock
's prevention vision, but to deliver it we need action on the social determinants that influence people's health. To prioritise prevention we need to match it with long-term investment.
See our response featured on
@BBCr4today
:
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England has one of the lowest rates of hospital beds per person in the OECD, with just two beds per 1,000 people of population.
Our analysis reviews past trends and sets out our projections for the number of general & acute beds required in 2030/31 📊 ⬇️
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⭐ Today we launch
#THFCommonAmbition
⭐
A new £2.1m programme for partnerships developing collaborative communities where people, families, health care professionals and researchers work together to improve health care in the UK.
Find out how to apply:
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What additional spending are the three main parties pledging for health and social care this
#GE2019
?
Read more ➡️
Our new analysis looks at whether the funding pledged by 2023/24 would maintain standards or improve care in the NHS, and… [1/2]
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Our new analysis reveals that the planned cut to Universal Credit will hit areas with the worst health hardest and is likely to further widen health inequalities.
Read the full story 🔽
#UniversalCredit
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#KeepTheLifeline
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Thanks for tuning into our fourth annual
#REALChallenge
lecture, delivered by
@DianeCoyle1859
and chaired by
@JenniferTHF
this afternoon.
A recording of today's event is available on our website for you to watch and share 👇
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NEW: In the public & political debate about how to improve health, the wider determinants of health are often left out or misunderstood
Our report with
@FrameWorksInst
recommends how to frame communications to tell a more powerful story about health 🔽
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Reductions in the public health grant have been greatest in the most deprived areas.
In Blackpool, ranked as the most deprived area in England, the per capita cut to the grant has been one of the largest at £43 per person.
Read more:
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We’re working with
@TheMarmotReview
to explore why health inequalities are widening in England, and what can be done about it.
Watch
@MichaelMarmot
and
@JenniferTHF
explain more about The Marmot Review 10 Years On.
Find out more:
#Marmot10YearsOn
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To understand what makes us healthy, we need to look at the circumstances in which we live:
🌳 surroundings
📕 education & skills
🔑 housing
🍎 food
💰 money & resources
🚝 transport
☕ family, friends and communities
🔨 work
#Marmot2020
➡️
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#QualityImprovement
is about making health care safe, effective, patient-centred & efficient.
Read our guide online now:
#QI
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The absence of any clear policy on social care in today’s
#ConservativeManifesto
is a shameful omission for a party that’s been in power for nearly a decade, says
@JenniferTHF
Read our full response:
#GE2019
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#SocialCare
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Launching today, new
@MarmotIHE
report warns that the UK must build back fairer from the
#COVID19
pandemic – or risk a generation of children and young people experiencing its health impacts throughout their lives.
Read more ⬇️
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'The reality is that public health funding has been cut by over £1bn in the last 10 years and further cuts have been made to services that are fundamental to people’s health, like education & housing.'
Read our response to today's speech by
@sajidjavid
🔽
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How can we support health care innovations and improvements to spread?
Out today, our new report explores why this is such a challenge and looks at how spread programmes can be better designed.
Read
#TheSpreadChallenge
now:
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The NHS has a wealth of data - but too few people with the skills to make sense of this data and improve patient care.
Our report sets out why we need to invest in skilled analysts to unleash the power of
#NHSdata
.
Read it today 👉
#InvestInAnalytics
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This year's
#PublicHealth
grant allocations represent a 24% real terms cut compared to 2015/16.
Government needs to restore the grant to previous levels by investing an extra £1 billion a year.
Read our response to yesterday's announcement 👇
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NEW: UK GPs experience the highest stress levels and lowest job satisfaction among GPs in 10 high-income countries.
See what else we found in our analysis of the
@commonwealthfnd
’s international GP survey 🔽
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Our latest survey with
@IpsosUK
shows the UK public wants a better, adequately staffed health service – not a departure from the NHS model. And they back additional spending to support it.
Read more 📊⬇️
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#QualityImprovement
is about making health care safe, effective, patient-centred & efficient. Read our guide:
#QI
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Living with the day to day stresses of poverty in early childhood can have damaging consequences for long-term health.
See our new
#healthylives
infographic examining the links between poverty and health:
#ukpoverty
#HiAP
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In England, women in the most deprived 10% of local areas are expected to live 51.4 years in good health compared with 71.2 years for women living in the least deprived – a difference of 19.7 years.
Explore our chart 📊⬇️
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Primary care networks are launching today. Our new briefing covers everything you need to know:
❓ What opportunities, risks and challenges do
#PCNs
bring?
❓ What does this mean for the wider health sector?
Read it now:
#PrimaryCareNetworks
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Our health is determined by the building blocks of health: things like good-quality homes, good work and safe and supportive neighbourhoods.
This is why a whole-government approach to health is essential to build a thriving society.
Read more ⬇️
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People involved in
#qualityimprovement
often ask us about how to approach evaluation. So we created this guide...
#QI
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At the start of the pandemic, NHS earnings had fallen in real terms by over £600 per employee over the last decade.
Read our full response from
@AnitaCTHF
to the proposed 1% pay rise for NHS staff ▶️
#REALCentre
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THREAD: To change public understanding of health inequalities and to change policy, we need to change how we communicate.
Here are 5⃣ top tips from our new toolkit with
@FrameWorksUK
for telling a more powerful story about health.
#TalkingAboutHealth
🧱
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We're delighted to be working with
@MichaelMarmot
on a new report 10 years on from
@TheMarmotReview
, to examine progress in addressing health
#inequalities
in England and propose recommendations for future action.
Find out more:
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Reductions in the public health grant have been greatest in the most deprived areas.
In Blackpool, ranked as the most deprived area in England, the per capita cut to the grant has been one of the largest at £43 per person.
Read more:
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‘Reorganising the nation's public health agency in the middle of a pandemic is highly risky, and its justification hasn’t been fully set out.'
@JenniferTHF
responds to the government’s plans to establish a new
#publichealth
organisation ➡️
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Living in poverty was bad for your health long before
#COVID19
. But the crisis has thrown
#healthinequalities
into even sharper focus.
Read our latest analysis exploring how income affects health outcomes ⬇️
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Older people living alone are 40% more likely to visit their GP than those who live with someone else, according to our research.
Tackling
#socialisolation
has the potential to reduce pressure on A&E departments & GP services.
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The NHS was never meant to go it alone when it comes to building a healthy society. Good health is also dependent on factors such as stable jobs, good pay, quality housing and good education.
@JoBibbyTHF
reflects how these are crucial to our health ⬇️
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Want to communicate your health research in a better way in 2018?
Our toolkit for
#researchers
in heath and health care is the tool you need. Read online or download it for later:
#WhyWeDoResearch
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Health Foundation analysis in
@guardian
today shows that public health budgets for preventative health care have been cut year on year since 2015, adding up to a 17% fall in spend per head between 2014/15 and 2018/19.
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Living in poverty was bad for your health long before
#COVID19
. But the crisis has thrown
#healthinequalities
into even sharper focus.
Read our latest analysis exploring how income affects health outcomes ⬇️
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NEW: Our research looks at people's long-term condition
#selfmanagement
and their use of health care.
Better support for those least able to manage their health conditions could prevent 690,000 attendances at A&E per year.
Read our briefing:
#StayWell
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What’s the problem with social care?
Our new
#NHS70
briefing with
@TheIFS
@TheKingsFund
&
@NuffieldTrust
explains why we need to do better:
Written by:
@RThorlby
@AnnaStarling
@BroadbentCat
@tlswatt
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Older people living alone are 40% more likely to visit their GP than those who live with someone else, according to our research.
Tackling
#loneliness
&
#socialisolation
has the potential to reduce pressure on A&E departments and GP services.
Read more:
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NEW: Our director of health
@JoBibbyTHF
writes for the
@Independent
on why we need to recognise how our unequal society, and the
#communities
we live in, affect our ability to make healthy choices.
#healthylives
#inequalities
#PHEConf18
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A healthy population is one of Scotland’s most important assets.
Yet in 2019, there was a 24-year gap in the time spent in good health between people living in the most and least deprived 10% of local areas in Scotland.
Read our new
#HISreview23
⬇️
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To address health inequalities, we need to change the way that we communicate about the wider determinants of health to increase public understanding and build space for policy change.
➡️ Read six practical recommendations from our research findings
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The
#COVID19
pandemic has brought health inequalities into sharp focus.
In our long read we explore:
1⃣ How people face the virus from uneven starting points
2⃣ How COVID-19 risks exacerbating health inequalities
3⃣ Why we need to act now
Read now:
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Workforce is the make or break issue for the NHS.
Our new analysis finds that nursing shortages continue to deepen, with the health service increasingly having to rely on less skilled clinical support staff to fill gaps in services.
Read now:
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NEW: What does the public think about health and
#HealthInequalities
? And does it line up with the evidence?
Our new long read explores the reasons behind current public attitudes and considers how to communicate more effectively about health 🔽
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Our latest infographic in our
#healthylives
series looks at how poverty can influence health:
#HiAP
#SDOH
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People living in poorer areas have greater health care needs.
Our latest analysis shows that GP practices in areas of higher deprivation have fewer doctors and are underfunded relative to need, which risks exacerbating health inequalities.
Read now 🔽
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