Giulia_Boccarini

Economist @HealthFdn #REALcentre.
Painter for pleasure.
Views are my own // retweets not endorsements

[Ben Zaranko @BenZaranko]

This is interesting: the OBR now forecast average CPI inflation and economy-wide earnings growth of 4.1% in 2023/24 (their previous CPI forecast was 5.5%).

Departments have said they can afford 3.5% pay awards. It wouldn't take enormous sums of money to bridge that gap...

[Sally @so_says_sally]

It’s Treasury brain again: Let’s try to save spending money right now without worrying about how much more money it will cost the health service in the long run to not have enough staff- Treasury tries to curb NHS plans for more doctors and nurses https://t.co/YbSSgllf4B

[The Health Foundation @HealthFdn]

NEW: Our #REALCentre commissioned @LSEHealthPolicy to research pharmaceutical policy in the UK.

They identify 🔎
▶️ shortcomings of current pharmaceutical policy
▶️ key principles for building a more coherent system.

Read the final reports 🔽
https://t.co/NHCMebY0ef

[Dr Malte Gerhold @Dr_Malte]

60% of delayed discharge due to challenges in the NHS, not social care - we need to tackle both challenges. New ⁦@HealthFdn⁩ explainer of the discharge problem👇 https://t.co/Fj9wDfR6y3

[Ben Zaranko @BenZaranko]

It's now difficult to see an end to public sector pay disputes and strikes that does not involve the Treasury providing additional funding to departments.

Why? And what does this mean for next month's Budget? A quick thread based on our @TheIFS pre-Budget briefing 🧵

[Daniel Tomlinson @dan_tomlinson_]

Good morning.

Journalists, comms people & policy makers: please *stop* obsessing over early retirements as the big driver of rising rates of non-working.

Today's statistics show that there are now *fewer* people retired and economically inactive than there were pre-pandemic.

[Ben Chu @BenChu_]

We’re told wholesale #energy prices are falling, which should bring our bills down.

Yet we’re also warned household #EnergyBills are going to spike by 40% in April & the gov is being called on to act.

How can we reconcile the two?

Feeling confused?

A thread for you...🧵1/

[The Health Foundation @HealthFdn]

What has happened to the 40 new hospitals promised by the government?

@laurie_rj tells @ObserverUK that the money allocated thus far is ‘woefully insufficient’ to meet capital expenditure on this scale, especially in light of rising inflation ⬇️
https://t.co/SZPuiyPiI6

[Giulia_Boccarini @GiuliaBoccarini]

With huge thanks to
@AnitaCTHF, @SeanAgass and other comms colleagues for reviews

[Giulia_Boccarini @GiuliaBoccarini]

1/ New @REALcentre analysis looking at the outlook for health funding following the 2022 Autumn Statement:

A good reminder of 1) the uncertainty around the actual cost pressures in the health care sector 2) the pre-existing challenges, including workforce and maintenance backlog

[Giulia_Boccarini @GiuliaBoccarini]

9/ Read the full analysis here:
https://t.co/JOjFRmh9vw

[Charles Tallack @CharlesTTHF]

The argument that’s often made for why we need an alternative model to the NHS or radical reform is that the NHS is unsustainable. The latest to make the argument is Sajid Javid. But *is* the NHS unsustainable? A Friday🧵

[Ben Zaranko @BenZaranko]

I don't think this number is accurate. At best, it paints an incomplete picture.

A quick on why 🧵