Laura Thomas
@mslhthomas
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Policy & strategy professional, formerly @Macmillancancer, @theBHF & @IoFtweets. Now Co-Director @Brighter2Co, a policy & strategy consultancy. School Governor.
Joined May 2011
To find out more about MS and employment, hear from the authors and an expert panel, join us at 14.00 on Tuesday 3 June for our online briefing event (10/10):
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Join the Work Foundation at Lancaster University and the MS Society to explore new research on the employment experiences of people with MS.
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Also, selling your (anonymised) data is good! The NHS is one of the greatest resources of centralised patient data in the world. It can provide enormous insights into health outcomes and can be parlayed to get deals for cheaper medicines from pharma firms which need that data
Everyone saying “no we can’t let the NHS use a proper joined up digital patient database, it’s all part of a plot to privatise British healthcare and sell your data” should be forced to read the dozens (hundreds?) of case studies like these https://t.co/8VvouoDGY3
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Our Data First Aid service is on a mission to resolve the data challenges charities face. This could include support with: 📈 Improving spreadsheets 📊 Data storytelling 💪Strengthening impact reports Tell us your data needs and we will listen, whatever they are!
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Fantastic to hear the amazing work of charities be so valued by @DCMS SoS @lisanandy. Charities play an invaluable role in creating positive change, and this is another clear signal @UKLabour is serious about working with civil society to deliver for people and communities.
YOU'VE GOT MAIL ✉️ Today, @DCMS SoS @lisanandy has recognised the incredible, and invaluable, role charities and voluntary organisations have played in responding to riots across the country.👏 "I know you are doing everything in your power to bring people together and provide
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£3million health equity fund available for community, voluntary sector organisations. Part of an @landg_uk and @marmotihe @MichaelMarmot collaboration. Expressions of interest by 2nd Sept. Apply via the Health Equity Network
healthequitynetwork.co.uk
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🚨 CALL OUT: Last night the far right rioted in #Sunderland. Today and tomorrow join protests in your area to stand against the fascists. From Lancaster to Weymouth we’ve got protests across the country to stop the far right and say refugees are welcome here. Join us. Find your
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We’ve received a lot of messages in the last 24hrs, sorry I couldn’t reply to everyone but I’m sure you understand why. Thank you for your kindness and support, it means a lot. Teddy my 7 yr old daughter was at the horrific incident in Southport yesterday. She went in with
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Young Swifties are making friendship bracelets and raising money while grown men throw bricks and spew hatred.
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First time I’ve ever seen this description of a toilet. Gracias Madrid airport. 👏
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You probably know the start of this Olympic story, but do you know how it finished? This photo is of Eric Moussambani, aka 'Eric the Eel' from Equatorial Guinea, competing in the 100m Freestyle event at the Sydney 2000 Olympics, alone. Why? /1
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This is one of the hardest photos we’ve restored and colored, and perhaps one of the most necessary. These two men are showing their liberators what their work was like as part of the Sonderkommando at Dachau camp. But what was the Sonderkommando? Thread:
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1. Stepping away was tough but right & secures his legacy. 2.Being 81 wasn’t the problem, some cognitive decline &/or ill health was. 3 That can kick in for us at 61 or 91 - or not at all. 4. Much of the commentary has been ignorantly ageist. Let’s change it!
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An unpaid carer can’t just leave the house, go for a walk, pick up some shopping, go to the gym. An unpaid carer has to go through a carers assessment, has to justify the need to go for a walk, pick up shopping, go to the gym. 🧵
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Wishing our colleague @so_says_sally many congratulations as she leaves us for a critical new role in government, helping to develop a new 10 year NHS plan.
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The King’s Fund’s Director of Policy, Sally Warren, has announced she will be leaving the organisation to start a new senior role at the Department of Health and Social Care.
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New Labour adviser to Milburn, Paul Corrigan, who I quoted in this article for The Sunday Times, is also joining @DHSCgovuk as adviser to @wesstreeting
Starmer says the NHS is broken but he has a plan to fix it. My read for The Sunday Times on just how big a challenge it will be for @wesstreeting and the NHS: https://t.co/rUTVhDBoSR
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Streeting: NHS reform isn't about changing structures or renaming boards or NHS CEO. 3 big shifts: 1. Shift from hosp to community, PC, soc care, MH 2. Shift to cross society, cross-govt prevention 3. Shift to digital innovation & life science #FutureofBritain
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We will never get tired of sharing this NHS porters rarely get a mention, but they are doing an absolutely heroic job right now to keep our hospitals moving Please spare a RT for all of them
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Our chief executive, @sarahvibert82, has penned an open letter to @Keir_Starmer on behalf of our members, explaining how we can partner with him for the first 100 days in government and throughout the next ten years of national renewal. Read the open letter:
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