Sir Chris Ham
@profchrisham
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Co-Chair NHS Assembly, Emeritus Prof Uni of Birmingham. Health policy and management wonk. Walking, cycling, reading, thinking. Also on [email protected]
West Midlands, England
Joined June 2011
the NHS has been in decline since 2010 because successive govts have failed to heed the warning signs of deteriorating performance
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Multi-year funding increases and reforms led to improvements in NHS performance between 2000 and 2010, but performance has declined since 2010 as a result of much lower funding increases, limited...
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HURRAH! Our practice won a Royal College of GPs Practice Team Award tonight for our low carb work to help people with T2D 🥳 Just avoid the foods that put your blood sugar up 👍@DiabetesUK
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.@profchrisham shares the lessons that can be learned from the UK and beyond when it comes to delivering high quality care for people with chronic conditions. Outlining the 10 characteristics of a high performing chronic care system and implementation strategies. #ABCDiab2025
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this story has worrying echoes of Mid Staffs: finances taking priority over patient safety and care quality
‘Serious leadership failures’ found at major trust
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A spritz you can drink before noon and no one will look at you funny
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Delighted to author this new @_HSMCentre and @TheKingsFund long read with @profchrisham and Suzie Bailey on why NHS management matters so much
The NHS 10 Year Health Plan will only succeed with strong management and leadership. Our new long read with @unibirmingham explores why management matters, and what needs to change to help leaders deliver better care. Read more: https://t.co/4HMZyV6U2K
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Aberystwyth has joined a global network of 350 Creative Cities that have been recognised for their excellence in creative fields across the world by becoming Wales’ first UNESCO City of Literature
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Stephen Price Aberystwyth has joined a global network of 350 Creative Cities that have been recognised for their excellence in creative fields across the world by becoming Wales’ first UNESCO City of...
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Great news
Congratulations to Aberystwyth which joins a list including Barcelona, Dublin and Prague to become Wales’s first @unesco City of Literature 📖
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This is remarkable
UK’s second city urged to justify ‘avalanche’ of cuts after bankruptcy via @FT
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UK’s second city urged to justify ‘avalanche’ of cuts after bankruptcy via @FT
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Birmingham city council under growing pressure to explain whether severe cost savings and asset sales were necessary
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Meanwhile Rome burns
Joint NHSE-DHSC leadership team revealed
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Hearing stories of ICB pressure to cut the number of Drs on out of hour rotas, slash cover rates, leaving dr gaps (without clearance from Drs let alone patients at the pointy end). Ppl who worked at Mid Staffs saying feels like that with knobs on.
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Read the full analysis of the Caerphilly by-election results in my news letter (see pinned tweet).
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This result is very significant. What is shows is both the strength of the swing against the existing two main parties but also how much depends on its structure. Take Reform. It’s an astonishing achievement to be on 30 percent in some opinion polls. But 30 percent can also
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This result is very significant. What is shows is both the strength of the swing against the existing two main parties but also how much depends on its structure. Take Reform. It’s an astonishing achievement to be on 30 percent in some opinion polls. But 30 percent can also
Scale of Plaid win in Caerphilly is significant, not least because of what it says about the potential for progressive tactical voting in (relatively) high turnout elections to block Reform. Voters in this race knew it was a Plaid-Reform contest and voted accordingly.
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Keir Starmer is preparing to rip up NHS value for money rules to pay more for medicines He is offering to raise NICE cost-effectiveness thresholds for the first time ever to stop pharma companies leaving Britain and placate Donald Trump But stand-off in govt over who pays
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A cautionary tale: the lesson being don’t make big announcements without first having figured out if they are feasible politically, financially etc - and take time to decide if they are actually necessary
Got to now be a non-zero (and growing) chance there’ll be no NHS England abolition and no Health Bill in this Parliament. Hard to say what the Plan B is, Plan A was never especially clear. Hoping for the best on 18wks and some reform-y rhetoric without much substance probably
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I think main rationale is pour encourager less autres in the management community - but metrics and aggregation are highly questionable
@RoyLilley @profchrisham @HSJEditor @SarahWooln32017 Ultimately outside the very biggest conurbations people only have one DGH one community trust and one local tertiary centre . And even in London you'd only have two to choose from. And general hospitals have so many service lines that some will be good or bad overall score
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