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AliJaneMoore @alijanemoore.bsky.social · 4d

Hopefully some of these councillors will now question the sincerity and motivations of those who told them that. You don't need much familiarity with local gov to know it has been cut to the bone over the last few years.

Richard Humphries @richardhumphries.bsky.social · 4d

”Everyone thought we’d come in and there were going to be these huge costs we could cut away but there just aren’t,” said a third senior Reform cabinet member in Kent

Reform likely to raise Kent council tax after cost-cutting drive falters

Nigel Farage’s party promised to revive local authority finances by slashing wasteful spending

on.ft.com

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Cat in the Hat @catinthehat.bsky.social · 5d

Eligibility for an NHS Covid booster has been HUGELY restricted this Autumn.

Studies show that both acute & long-term impacts of Covid are substantially WORSE than flu on almost every measure.

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

So why are the government offering so much LESS protection for Covid?

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AliJaneMoore @alijanemoore.bsky.social · 6d

Probably not a surprise, as many pets will spend more time outside than theor owners, but adds weight to the case for reducing pollution at source.

Stephen Jarvis @stephenjarvis.bsky.social · 9d

New paper out in @pnas.org! We study the effect of air pollution on pets, finding increased vet admissions when air quality is worse. Tackling air pollution doesn't just matter for human health - it's important for animals too, including people's much loved cats and dogs www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Jack Serle @jackserle.bsky.social · 8d

So far as I can tell, to-date she is the only HSJ contributor to be made Archbishop of Canterbury.

Tom Phillips @tom-phillips.com · 8d

there's a "fact" about the new Archbishop of Canterbury on her Wikipedia page that'll be an interesting test of which media organisations do their jobs...

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AliJaneMoore @alijanemoore.bsky.social · 8d

Meanwhile no passenger trains run on the completed rail link between Oxford and Milton Keynes.

Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 9d

Flying electric taxis will be travelling between Oxford and Cambridge next year. A six-month pilot project (geddit) aims to prepare the infrastructure and develop a business case as a first step towards “commercially viable regional operations”.

Flying taxi over English countryside somewhere

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Helen Salisbury @helensalisbury.bsky.social · 11d

We are just rewriting our surgery timetable, cancelling GP F2F appts so we can process all the requests that come in online - because our contract now demands we keep online access open all of core hours.
This is silly and inefficient and means we will offer a worse service to pts who needs us most.

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AliJaneMoore @alijanemoore.bsky.social · 12d

I've written a bit recently on the slow roll out of thrombectomy and some of the inequalities arising. Here's a BMJ paper which looks at some of the underlyign causes.

buff.ly

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AliJaneMoore @alijanemoore.bsky.social · 13d

@oxfordclarion.bsky.social also worth a mention

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AliJaneMoore @alijanemoore.bsky.social · 13d

Need to improve train links from Heyford Park as a priority. Heyford station has one train an hour and apparently none on Sunday.

Anna Clarke @annaclarke.bsky.social · 13d

New town locations now out:
- Adlington, Cheshire East
- South Gloucestershire
- Enfield
- Heyford Park in Cherwell
- Leeds
- Manchester, Victoria North
- Marlcombe, East Devon
- A ‘Renewed Town’ in Milton Keynes;
- Plymouth
- Tempsford
- Thamesmead, Greenwich;
- Worcestershire Parkway, Wychavon

Matthew Pennycook MP @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social · 13d

We warmly welcome all 12 of the locations recommend by the Taskforce with Tempsford, Crews Hill and Leeds South Bank looking particularly promising.

We are today commencing a SEA to support final decisions on precisely which sites will be taken forward.

www.gov.uk/government/p...

AliJaneMoore @alijanemoore.bsky.social · 13d

it's an intriguing idea but why not just combine tax and NI into one payment levied on all income? No one is quite sure what NI pays for nowadays and could also address some of the cliff edges within the system by introduci8ng graduated increases as income rises.

AliJaneMoore @alijanemoore.bsky.social · 14d

Any lawyers working in NHS trusts out there? Would you be happy to have a quick chat about the proposed Hillsborough Law and how it might affect you? Can be anonymous. I'm on [email protected] Thanks!

AliJaneMoore @alijanemoore.bsky.social · 15d

I asked an ICB which had refused to release info under the FoI but did not appear to have applied the public interest test for evidence of when this test was applied. This is what they said. There is, basically, no evidence. @mrosenbaum.bsky.social

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AliJaneMoore @alijanemoore.bsky.social · 19d

and fittingly the first morning when I needed lights to cycle to the pool (and wished I had put on gloves as well)

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AliJaneMoore @alijanemoore.bsky.social · 19d

Can't vouch for the veracity of this (as was second hand from facebook) but worth thinking about what the march in London 10 days ago must have felt like for NHS staff.

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AliJaneMoore @alijanemoore.bsky.social · 28d

Ahead of the announcements about which trusts will be in the Amos maternity review, I wonder how many of these will feature? All had higher than expected neonatal deaths/stillbirths over the last few years (details from MBRRACE)

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AliJaneMoore @alijanemoore.bsky.social · 28d

I don't know but you are right - it's a strange thing to lie about, not least because it can be disproved easily.

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AliJaneMoore @alijanemoore.bsky.social · 28d

But his CV said he was only there 1993-4 which would not be long enough for even the first part of a medical degree in Oxford. Surprised that was not picked up at the time.

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Dr Geraint Preest @drgeraintpreest.bsky.social · 29d

Some typos are worse than others….

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AliJaneMoore @alijanemoore.bsky.social · 29d

Whoops...the man who has just funded a new centre for the humanities in Oxford. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Southern Water bans tankers doing runs to US billionaire's lake

Tankers taking water for US billionaire Stephen Schwarzman have been told to stop by Southern Water.

www.bbc.co.uk

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AliJaneMoore @alijanemoore.bsky.social · 29d

Anyone going to the emergency services show next Wednesday and fancy a coffee and chat? Drop me a line!

AliJaneMoore @alijanemoore.bsky.social · 29d

A very concerning story - just what priority is given to mental health in the NHS at the moment? www.hsj.co.uk/workforce/ex...

Exclusive: NHSE director resigns, claiming politcians wanted ‘change at the top’

Claire Murdoch, NHS England's national mental health director for the last nine years, has today resigned "with immediate effect".

www.hsj.co.uk

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Cyclox @cycloxoxford.bsky.social · 29d

Oxford congestion charge, clean air, less noise, faster bus journeys...what's not to like? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Oxford congestion charge 'insulting', say critics

Oxfordshire County Council voted on Wednesday to introduce the temporary £5 charge by 10 November.

www.bbc.co.uk

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AliJaneMoore @alijanemoore.bsky.social · Sep 10

I thought the idea was that exmeptions would be given to people who could not get to their home without passing through one fo the ANPRs - but I might be wrong on that.

AliJaneMoore @alijanemoore.bsky.social · Sep 10

do you count as someone in the central area who will get an exemption? There's not really any other way to reach some roads, apart from passing through one of the six ANPRs.

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Stuart Hoddinott @stuarthoddinott.bsky.social · Sep 9

You know the govt's "landmark NHS league tables" are next to useless when North Bristol trust could be ranked anywhere between 11th and 107th "best" performing trust in the country

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