Nicholas Timmins

[Nicholas Timmins @NicholasTimmins]

Great sadness in the valleys (and not just there) because "a fitter's mate named Ron, broke the mould of solid gold that once made Barry John" ..... Max Boyce. Poetry in motion.

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@jappleby123 It does. Though the Sharwood's mango chutney at £2.19 look to be either a bargain or so old that it really is outdated .....

[Nicholas Timmins @NicholasTimmins]

This, by Mark Dyan at the Nuffield Trust, is spot on.
https://t.co/q5n6j27QEU

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Great obituary of the great Jose Harris in today's Guardian. I like so many others owe her.

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@NeilCouling The anniversary that almost no-one remembers. Well done Neil!

[Nick Macpherson @nickmacpherson2]

I spent months on an unpaid cooling off period to meet ACOBA's requirements back in 2016, and rightly so. Is it churlish of me to find those who persistently ignore and break rules (put in place to preserve propriety) just a little irritating?

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@colinrtalbot It's a comma Colin ......!

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@RogerKirby12 @RoySocMed An absolutely magic man. Intellectually outstanding, very funny, deeply humane and politically astute (the last of those being crucial in the earlier days of NICE).

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@kieran_walshe A truly great man. And with a lovely dry sense of humour.

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@DavidNichols0n @AliJaneMoore @VivekKhashu @MichelePaduano @SteveBakerHW Indeed.

And one can now add this, jointly, from NHS Providers and NHS Confederation:
"There will be concern at what this means for wider messaging about the importance of vaccination for the population as a whole.

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@HPIAndyCowper @Jeremy_Hunt @AllocateS Well spotted. Delighted he has said it so clearly and specifically. Twas his view before the bill was published, saying here - https://t.co/0MkBbYCXFv - that he never felt the lack of powers of direction when health sec. Will the current health sec listen?

[Nicholas Timmins @NicholasTimmins]

That last tweet should have ended "Go subscribe!"

[Nicholas Timmins @NicholasTimmins]

As, just possibly, the longest standing subscriber to Health Policy Insight, it has always been invaluable, insightful, funny and excellent value for money. Highly recommended: https://t.co/l1YKmJiWXG
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[Nicholas Timmins @NicholasTimmins]

Msgr Cowper at his finest. How, instantly, to read behind the lines of a speech.

[Andy Cowper @HPIAndyCowper]

My take on what Sir Simon Stevens was saying, and to whom, in his last big speech to the NHS today: https://t.co/coctnJmvWs

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Small piece of shameless advertising. The 2000s show that "Given the tools, we can deliver" on waiting times, Sir Simon Stevens says today. An account of how that happened (money and mechanisms) is out today from the Health Foundation https://t.co/AZENdkCxQz

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@RichardnotatKF @TheKingsFund Reluctant tho I am to engage with Twitter, fearing I may say things I regret, working with Richard H has always been a total privilege. As IM said, he is Hotel California. He may be checking out of the Fund but he will never leave. Looking forward to a future venture.

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Do ministers REALLY want to 'take back control' of the NHS? https://t.co/ddBaqhfBrx

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@jappleby123 @jtweeterson @HPIAndyCowper And on second thoughts, maybe I took it .... And both (by the way, because Twitter lacks humour) are a joke!

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@jappleby123 @jtweeterson @HPIAndyCowper Now why am I not in that picture!

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@TorstenBell Indeed. Outstanding. Of his generation he was one of two who taught me what little I know about the welfare state. So generous. So rigourous! But so kind. Aside from his work on inequality, his lasting legacies include his share in a modernised state pension system