Sebastian Rees

Head of Health @IPPR, All views my own.

[IPPR @IPPR]

Coming up 🚨
Can Labour deliver on its ambition for a healthier Britain?

Featuring:
👉 @YvetteCooperMP
👉 Laurie Lee
👉 @harry_qp

🕝 14.30–15.45
📍 Arena, Room Tees, LEX
with @ImpUrbanHealth

[Sebastian Rees @SebastianJRees]

@Joe_Dromey Every minute counts when there are stakeholders to be engaged

[Sebastian Rees @SebastianJRees]

Can’t wait!

[Sebastian Rees @SebastianJRees]

@ce_pickles As you know in our industry it’s the thought leadership that takes time. Concept design started last year and execution took my lunch break yesterday.

[IPPR North @IPPRNorth]

Mayors already cover most of the North, and soon they'll cover the whole country.

Our NEW report calls for mayors to have control over a 5% share of income tax, DOUBLING their annual funding.

That's more they can choose to spend on transport, housing, and high streets 👇👇

[Sebastian Rees @SebastianJRees]

Was very worried I’d lost this..

[Sebastian Rees @SebastianJRees]

And so it begins…

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@rcsloggett

[Alastair McLellan @HSJEditor]

It looks like the government will have to (quietly) drop its flagship NHS promise (to cut NHS hospital waiting lists) writes @Jamesillman ahead of the Labour Party conference https://t.co/RoSVooUL2s

[Helen Barnard @Helen_Barnard]

3 things to note on all the current tax debates:

1. Raising the income tax Personal Allowance does *not* benefit those on the lowest incomes most. It's people in the richest half of the country who mostly benefit.
(Although mainly middle earners rather than the very rich.)

[Nick Garland @ngarland93]

Excited to be relaunching @IPPR's journal of politics, ideas and public policy, Progressive Review, with a new look, new editorial team and a new advisory board.

[Sebastian Rees @SebastianJRees]

@rcsloggett Really good that so much thought went into this whole process!

[rat king 🐀 @MikeIsaac]

i wish muse wasnt so corny bc ive had the homer starlight cover on repeat for 24 hours (and they do have some bangers…)

[Alastair McLellan @HSJEditor]

The government's pledge to restore hospital waiting times in this parliament has now moved from "ambitious" to "incredible" says @gooroohealth https://t.co/7u2ChBDLKN

[Sebastian Rees @SebastianJRees]

Choices, choices…

Recommit to 18 weeks? Quietly shelve? Deliberately break from target to refocus on something else (primary care access, A&E)?

[Alastair McLellan @HSJEditor]

The government's pledge to restore hospital waiting times in this parliament has now moved from "ambitious" to "incredible" says @gooroohealth https://t.co/7u2ChBDLKN

[Sebastian Rees @SebastianJRees]

And in a fate worse than death I’ve been suspended from Facebook and Instagram, and can only access LinkedIn and Bluesky…

[Sebastian Rees @SebastianJRees]

Following a month of failing to convince X moderators that I’m a lowly health policy commentator, not an adult entertainment producer, I’ve bitten the bullet and started a new account.

Follow for (occasionally funny?) musings about all things NHS, care and public health!

[Sebastian Rees @SebastianJRees]

@northernmaeve Thanks sis!

[Sebastian Rees @SebastianJRees]

Right call, though I fear untold damage has already been done to independent patient voice given the uncertainty of the last year.

A lot of work to do to get us back to where we were…

[Health Service Journal @HSJnews]

Ministers to unpick Healthwatch abolition https://t.co/BGBY3ecO5O