The second of our election briefings has been published today. This time we focus on social care. It's so important that the next government doesn't kick reform into the long grass and instead recognises social care as the essential pillar of our society and economy that it is.

🚨🚨Great job with a fantastic team Nuffield Trust

There is still time to apply - but don’t leave it too long!

Incredibly proud of our talented team at Nuffield Trust 🥹

See our latest QualityWatch data story, with special thanks to Liz Fisher Paul Kirkup and Jessica Morris

files.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/qualitywatch/c…

Excited to announce (far and wide plsRT!) we are offering a new Social Researcher Degree Apprenticeship The Health Foundation. Aimied at widening access to #careers in health and care #research . Working in supportive team with lovely people. 👇
Apply today: lde.tbe.taleo.net/lde01/ats/care…

Well that was a cracker of a route (albeit a tad gruelling - it seems the Peak District doesn’t do flat 😉)

Massive thanks to Peak Running CIC, and volunteers from the Blinding Peakers for an excellent day out 👏🏻

Now, hello sofa.

We’re hiring! This is great job even if I do say so myself - Senior Policy Lead, working on emerging policy issues and helping shape the debate in health and care. Closing date 8 May and more info here. kingsfund.org.uk/about-us/jobs/…

Important The Health Foundation research: Health inequalities in 2040.

People in the 10% most deprived areas can expect major illness a decade before least deprived areas, with big implications for working-age health, requiring a true cross-gov approach to inequals.
health.org.uk/publications/h…

Brilliant work from Deep End GP Scotland team, looking at the (persistent) inverse care law in Scottish general practice 🔽

‘Child poverty in the UK is a political choice’

(Grim), excellent paper 👇🏻

This. This is worrying and important

Tonight’s #Panorama looks at the care #NHS patients received when treated in private hospitals. Without commenting on specific cases, I set out 3 reasons we would be concerned by a substantial increase in the proportion of NHS patients treated in private hospitals. A thread >>

ONS have today published a new dataset looking at access to general practice.

It has some interesting findings – what does it tell us?

Thread 👇

ons.gov.uk/releases/exper…

Thanks Sara Shaw . This is a much better summary than I managed!

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