Toby Brown

@DHSC. Formerly @TheKingsFund, @biztradegovuk @CitizensAdvice, @MandFHealth, Fellow - Obama For America 2012

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

Congress did its homework on Nigel Farage:

[Department of Health and Social Care @DHSCgovuk]

We asked NHS staff what their one message to @WesStreeting would be.

Watch him react 👇

Tell him your priorities in our new survey: https://t.co/ppEMoHqsXo

[Sarah Woolnough @swoolnough]

Interesting piece from our senior policy advisor Toby Brown on why the NHS needs politicians.
Why? Because political leadership, or consensus, has been critical to achieving many of the big wins in health 👇https://t.co/UsDJHwyEOZ

[Toby Brown @T0B0]

🗳️As long as health is of high importance to the public, the NHS makes people most proud to be British and is the largest area of public sector spending, politics will always shine through.

I say, let it shine bright ☀️

[Toby Brown @T0B0]

☀️Trying to remove politics from the NHS is akin to trying to block out the sun.

Let's start to harness its power for good - the solutions to the health omni-crises🤕of long waits, crumbling hospitals, workforce shortages, deficits, and adapting to an ageing population

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[Health Service Journal @HSJnews]

Why the NHS needs politicians https://t.co/3MuxGTLJqq

[Toby Brown @T0B0]

❌There need be no top-down reorganisation. ICSs can be enabled to realise the benefits of local collaboration and autonomy, guided by national oversight - setting the mission, addressing poor performance, aligning wider govt policy with NHS needs, and ensuring tax-payer vfm

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[Stack Data Strategy @StackStrat]

As covered in the Daily Mail, Stack’s latest MRP model shows Biden would narrowly win against Trump if the presidential election were held today. This poll is among the most comprehensive of the race to date and follows our first MRP of the cycle, released in November last year https://t.co/bLZVOeWedm

[Toby Brown @T0B0]

Like London buses, I was on two podcasts in one week talking health policy and politics

[The King's Fund @TheKingsFund]

🆕 @RuthRobbo is joined by @so_says_sally, @T0B0 and Saoirse Mallorie to discuss waiting times, workforce and public worries in the context of a likely general election later this year. Listen to our latest podcast episode: https://t.co/9UT0I4rJcF

[Toby Brown @T0B0]

And a real filip to be quoted in my home county’s paper of prestige

[Toby Brown @T0B0]

Pleasure to join @Masonboyowen on The Yorkshire Post podcast, talking about the importance of the next govt tackling health inequalities

[Toby Brown @T0B0]

Pleasure to join @Masonboyowen on The Yorkshire Post podcast, talking about the importance of the next govt tackling health inequalities

[Mason Boycott-Owen @Masonboyowen]

🎙️ All this and more on our Pod's Own Country podcast featuring @Steph_Peacock @IMcMillan @dukester24 and @T0B0

https://t.co/b1pH5v78FM

[The King's Fund @TheKingsFund]

🆕 @RuthRobbo is joined by @so_says_sally, @T0B0 and Saoirse Mallorie to discuss waiting times, workforce and public worries in the context of a likely general election later this year. Listen to our latest podcast episode: https://t.co/9UT0I4rJcF

[David Buck (also @davidjbuck.bsky.social) @davidjbuck]

1/3. You may have missed this (alongside the news on NHS satisfaction decline), our health is getting worse. We mustn't take our eyes off health & focus only on health & care services, however important. Our health is determined principally elsewhere... https://t.co/bhAMZlSLB7

[Sally @so_says_sally]

You might be thinking about Easter Eggs, but for NHS there is strong sense of Xmas. Planning Guidance published tonight -normally a run-up-to-Xmas-Eve experience. Publishing this close to Easter is indicative of Govt last minute+ short term approach to NHS https://t.co/2FBSvmEmDM

[Toby Brown @T0B0]

👎Public satisfaction with the NHS and social care at its lowest ever level https://t.co/VH1YytT9rE

Reform is needed - our top three priorities for the next government 👉https://t.co/2R1JMEmjyp

🚨Beware reactionary calls for changing NHS model - thread on why that won't help 👇

[Toby Brown @T0B0]

Thread alert🚨The NHS faces major challenges - some propose changes to how we fund health, like moving to social insurance, expanding the use of NHS charging, or encouraging people to pay to go private.

🔎 We've summarised the pros and cons here:
https://t.co/62FJq7XvKk
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[Toby Brown @T0B0]

Partially delivered:
🔎Abolish car park charges for Blue Badge holders and gravely ill.
🔎£1bn more funding every year for more social care staff and better infrastructure, technology, facilities

Inconclusive:
🔎Extend healthy life expectancy by 5 years by 2035

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[Toby Brown @T0B0]

🗳️With a general election around the corner @TheKingsFund has considered which health and social care commitments from the government's 2019 manifesto have (and have not) been delivered.

Summary🧵below

More details via the link
https://t.co/vj4JTzbcQy

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[Toby Brown @T0B0]

❌6,000 more GPs
❌Cross-party long-term reform of social care
❌Improve performance: reduce operating and A&E waiting times, increase cancer survival rates
❌NHS best place in the world to give birth
❌Double funding for dementia research
❌Build 40 new hospitals
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