Stephen Rocks
@rocks_stephen
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Economist @HealthFdn #REALCentre. Views my own.
London, England
Joined September 2011
RT @iDrSunny: @implausibleblog In a high intensity system Iike a healthcare system the optimal capacity is 80% . Hotels - that are high tur….
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RT @Billmorgan82: Nearly 5 months on and still no progress on the cuts to ICBs (or NHSE) because no funding for the reorg was ever agreed (….
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RT @YaleEconomics: "This paper empirically analyzes the effects of mergers between complementary firms on competition and pricing.". NEW @n….
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RT @Azeem_Majeed: We found that patients with multiple long-term conditions were more likely to experience fragmented outpatient care. This….
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Background Better continuity in primary and secondary care is linked to improved health outcomes, but it is unclear whether the sociodemographic determinants of continuity are the same in both...
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RT @DrLKVaughan: Workforce substitution is NOT a solution. It makes services more fragile. Harms patients. Costs more money in the long ru….
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Health leaders must take action to prevent contagion The world has faced a shortage of medical workforce for decades.1 Failure to tackle problems of recruitment and retention, accelerated by the...
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RT @Jon_Hartley_: How much can the management quality of firms explain why countries are rich and poor? Our new NBER working paper ("Manage….
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🚨 We're hiring! 🚨 . Join us at the Health Foundation and be part of the NHS Productivity Commission. We have 2 roles open: . 🔹 Senior Economist .🔹 Senior Policy and Engagement Lead. Great opportunity. Find out more and apply here:
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RT @HMAnderson39: NEW: Budget small print reveals NHS capital budgets have been raided again. £900m transferred to meet day to day spendin….
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RT @Strategy_Unit: Uncertainty is the only certainty! .Expert forecasts, using an evidence based protocol, reveal wide variation in how hos….
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Objectives The planning process for a new hospital relies on assumptions about future levels of demand. Typically, such assumptions are characterised by point estimates, the flaw-of-averages,...
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RT @HMAnderson39: NEW: The NHS is planning a deficit of £2.2bn this year - but in the first four months of the year it overspent by nearly….
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RT @pash22: Why you may not need a hlth checkup every year. A physician @dr_dmorgan proposes a radical but necessary idea: medical minimal….
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Medical minimalism is an approach to patient care that values quality over quantity.
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RT @PaoloCandio: Taking a health economic perspective in monitoring health inequalities: A focus on excess weight.
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RT @nberpubs: Using k-means clustering, a machine learning technique, and data from the Health and Retirement Study to characterize health….
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RT @cremieuxrecueil: "Food deserts" are a good example of social scientists getting causality backwards. They saw poor people eating unheal….
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RT @M_De_Nardi: How costly is bad health? Here is a paper about it that we just published (my coauthors and I started talking about this pr….
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RT @heimbergecon: Ownership of nursing homes by private equity funds "increases mortality by 11%. Declines in measures of patient well-bein….
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RT @HMAnderson39: The financial positions of each of England's 42 integrated care systems revealed. Three quarters are forecasting defici….
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RT @Jamesillman: Junior doc pay deal offer understood to be as follows: * * 22% cash terms increase over 2 years .* Backdated 4% pay rise….
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RT @pash22: Are doctors biased against certain medical conditions? via @CatiaNicodemo.
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In this blog, Catia Nicodemo and Brooke Scoles explain how research from the Health Economics group of the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences and the London School of Economics found...
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RT @cremieuxrecueil: 1% of people are responsible for 24% of the health spending in America and 5% of people are responsible for just over….
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