Whilst I long for the days of the old lovely Twitter, that version of this platform is clearly well and truly dead! So farewell! 👋🏽 Hope to see some of my lovely connections over on @bluesky & @LinkedIn

Our new blog with 15 videos to help shape population health & equity efforts for 2025 https://t.co/JRh33pSCmY @DurkaDougall @elaineappelbee @KellyAmeneshoa @SohailBCCG @ChildrenNE @YMCAEng_Wales @Bradford_TandA @NHSWYRD @UEL_News @RasheedOgunlaru @KimShutler @DrKhan_do & more

Two expert witnesses made the Committee confront the realities of our healthcare system and assisted suicide. Dr Rachel Clarke and Dr Sarah Cox, President of the Association of Palliative Care Medicine. A 🧵

Why we are always focused on issues of ethnicity and health @WYpartnership 👇🏾👇🏽👇🏿👇🏻👇🏼

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Happy Makar Sankranti to everyone celebrating! Makar Sankranti is one of the most important festivals of the Hindu calendar and celebrates the sun's journey into the northern hemisphere.

Well done to the @bradford2025 team! Amazing opening! Felt quite emotional ❤️ Proud to be an honorary Bradfordian 🥰

FREE @THEKINGSFUND EVENT! Online, this Tue, 14 Jan, 12-1pm. Me, @swoolnough @SivaAnandaciva and Jo Vigor will be doing our best Mystic Meg impression as we predict what’s in store for health and care in 2025: https://t.co/djnSGTZGul #KFOnline

I once contacted @jessphillips out of the blue for advice about a woman I was trying to support who had fled domestic violence. I emailed her at 7pm on a Friday night not really expecting a response. 1/2

The violence and hatred that Musk is stirring up in this country places so many at risk and if it’s true that @jessphillips has suggested that he should ‘crack on with getting to Mars’, I second that whole-heartedly! Bravo her!

Brilliant news!

Whatever your politics the attack on ⁦@jessphillips⁩ is grossly unfair. As a former Women’s Aid Federation colleague, I couldn’t believe anyone - whatever their views - could say that about her. She comes from the frontline, defending women and girls

"We've got a social care system that doesn't work for millions of people." Sarah Woolnough, chief executive of independent health think tank The King's Fund, urges the government to 'accelerate the timetable' for social care reform saying it is about 'human dignity'. #R4Today

Important message from @AiredaleNHSFT. 👇👇 We can all play our part to protect ourselves and those around us. Check out the self-care tips and local services information: https://t.co/bQXUFBXspt.

Excellent thread from my colleague @blimeysimon on today's social care announcement. There are a few reasons to be cheerful, but the timescale of a Commission should be accelerated. We don't need to wait years for a l/ term vision for s/care & behind the wait is human suffering

That's organisations and workforce but it's also the intangible stuff... the good will, the networks, the generous leadership, the trust. 2025 needs to be a year to crack on not a year of limbo.

We haven't got time for faffing. There are difficult decisions to be made of course. We know there isn't a magic money but it doesn't make sense to destroy key infrastructure that will be needed for the transformation.

they are just answers that haven't been listened to, resourced and enacted. There is a burning platform NOW and whilst we dilly dally around, sectors are being crumbling (social care, NHS and VCSE) and the damage to people and communities is terrible.

My worry is what is happening in the mean time. We do require radical transformation across health and care, and of course that is not a quick fix. Things need to be planned but this is the thing... none of the answers are actually new,

The timescales for the announcements on social care are incredibly worrying. There were lots of policy announcements - and appointments - that gave me much hope with the new government.