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David Buck

@davidjbuck.bsky.social

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Senior fellow in public health and health inequalities at The King's Fund (https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/). Bit of a magpie, don't necessarily agree with those i (re)share. Also over at twitter @davidjbuck.

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David Buck @davidjbuck.bsky.social · 3d

1/3. A ground-breaking paper, & commentary, on @thekingsfund.bsky.social website today - using linked data on the connection between #health & #economy from @nhsengland.bsky.social & ONS on the economic #payback from meeting waiting list targets. Paper assets.kingsfund.org.uk/f/256914/x/6...

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Sarah Jackson @drsarahejackson.bsky.social · 13h

In a letter published today in the BMJ, we call for urgent action to correct misperceptions of vaping.

As long as public perceptions of vaping are misaligned with evidence, the opportunity for vaping to further reduce smoking is being missed.

www.bmj.com/content/391/... @ashorguk.bsky.social

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The King's Fund Library Service @kingsfundlibrary.bsky.social · 14h

Policy alert: The tough choices at the heart of the government’s dispute with big pharma
@nuffieldtrust.org.uk
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The tough choices at the heart of the government’s dispute with big pharma

The government has been locked in a dispute with pharmaceutical companies for a number of months over how much the NHS pays for new branded medicines. Sally Gainsbury and Huseyin Naci set out the issu...

www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk

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David Buck @davidjbuck.bsky.social · 1d

Great to see this published, though it's all change and for health inequalities, sticking the course is key despite institutional upheaval (again)... bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/1...

From policy to action: a document content analysis reviewing the adoption of the healthcare inequalities programme in local health system plans in England

Objectives This analysis aimed to explore how local health system strategies and plans seek to tackle health and care inequalities and address national policies. Specifically, the analysis considered ...

bmjopen.bmj.com

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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 1d

How over- and underrepresented are different causes of death in the media?

Another way to visualize this data is to measure how over- or underrepresented each cause is.

To do this, we calculate the ratio between a cause’s share of deaths and its share of news articles.

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Hazel Cheeseman @hazelcheeseman.bsky.social · 1d

Seems like the solution to the "problem" of people not going to the pub could be to tax off-trade alcohol a bit more and narrow the price difference and incentives a return to the pub while also raising revenue. Would likely have health gains too.

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David Buck @davidjbuck.bsky.social · 1d

I could just be a grumpy old fella though.

David Buck @davidjbuck.bsky.social · 1d

I think it's got more transactional, less free-flowing, more constrained, too task-led. Still great people with great ideas, but the envionments/incentive systems are less fertile. And learning is bitesize/search led/immediate - not about evolving ideas/thoughts/strands over time. #shortcuts.

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David Buck @davidjbuck.bsky.social · 1d

Everything is now much harder to find (govt and civil society stuff). And you only know that if you know about it. Things have submerged.

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Health Equals @healthequals.bsky.social · 1d

Which MPs showed their support for #MakeHealthEqual at the Conservative party conference? 🟢

It's been motivating to have Lord Davies of Gower join our champions network, alongside over 100 cross-party MPs, as well as the Shadow Health Secretary Andrew Stuart MP offer his support for our work. 👇

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Alf Collins @alfcollins.bsky.social · 2d

I’d add that this comprehensive review by Sally Gainsbury and Huceyin Nasi makes the same argument: www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/th...
It is unconscionable that we accede to big pharma.

The tough choices at the heart of the government’s dispute with big pharma

www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk

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Alf Collins @alfcollins.bsky.social · 2d

A 2025 review in the Lancet (www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... shows that our current spending on new medicines skews overall health spend away from more effective interventions. But it looks like we are about to spend more on meds, thus depriving our population of more effective healthcare.

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Faculty of Public Health @fphuk.bsky.social · 2d

Join the Department of Health and Social Care and the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government for an online webinar: Understanding Awaab’s Law, exploring the link between housing and health.

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Microsoft Forms

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The King's Fund @thekingsfund.bsky.social · 2d

The social care system is not fit for purpose. Many people can't access the care and support they need and others are left facing catastrophic costs. Our new long read outlines the six key issues and the options cited to tackle them. https://bit.ly/3VPOdH3

Fixing Social Care: The Six Key Problems And How To Tackle Them

Different people have different opinions about what’s ‘wrong’ with social care and how to fix it. This long read outlines the six key issues and the options cited to tackle them.

www.kingsfund.org.uk

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Andy Cowper @hpiandycowper.bsky.social · 3d

[coughs] www.hsj.co.uk/primary-care...

DHSC GP adviser steps down

Wes Streeting's neighbourhood health and primary care lead is stepping down, after less than a year in the role and having recently launched an implementation programme.

www.hsj.co.uk

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Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 3d

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

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David Buck @davidjbuck.bsky.social · 3d

3/3. That's why its great that the techniques behind this work are also supporting the wider health and growth accelerator programme, more of this sort of stuff please! www.england.nhs.uk/2024/12/worl...

NHS England » World leading NHS trial to boost health and support people in work

www.england.nhs.uk

David Buck @davidjbuck.bsky.social · 3d

2/3. The commentary from Siva Anandaciva is as important as the paper inc arguing that these techiniques are welcome, but need to be applied to upstream preventive interventions inc outside the NHS, to balance the 'evidence', this is where the real gains are www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...

Can Tackling Waiting Lists Get Britain's Economy Moving Again? | The King's Fund

New analysis from the Office for National Statistics and NHS England explores whether reducing waiting lists could help more people return to work and boost productivity.

www.kingsfund.org.uk

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The King's Fund @thekingsfund.bsky.social · 3d

Is a healthier nation a wealthier nation?

For the first time, the ONS and NHS England, have linked millions of pseudonymised patient-level data on hospital waiting lists with individual-level data from HMRC.

Siva Anandaciva explores the findings. https://bit.ly/4gYwkze

Can Tackling Waiting Lists Get Britain's Economy Moving Again? | The King's Fund

New analysis from the Office for National Statistics and NHS England explores whether reducing waiting lists could help more people return to work and boost productivity.

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Population Health Improvement UK @phiuk.bsky.social · 3d

Upcoming lunchtime webinar from Policy Modelling for Health @healthmod.bsky.social on 23 October, midday: What Makes a ‘Good’ Policy Simulation Model? www.phiuk.org/news/events/...

Policy Modelling for Health lunchtime webinar: What Makes a ‘Good’ Policy Simulation Model?

www.phiuk.org

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SARG - SCHARR @sarg-scharr.bsky.social · 3d

📢 New paper published in @bmjtobacco-control.bsky.social Using electronic point-of-sales (EPOS) data, this study assesses purchase price of factory-made cigarettes and roll-your-own tobacco across neighbourhood deprivation and urban/rural status in Britain. #TobaccoResearch #PublicHealth

Purchase price of tobacco in small retailers in Great Britain: the relationships with neighbourhood deprivation and urbanicity between 2016–2021

Background Tobacco price is an important determinant of smoking behaviour. Using electronic point-of-sales (EPOS) data, this study assesses purchase price of factory-made cigarettes (FMC) and roll-you...

tobaccocontrol.bmj.com

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 4d

Other work by the Ladybird artists
‘October’
(From a 1958 calendar by the always fabulous Ronald Lampitt)

A scene on a busy, beautifully tended allotment. The star of the scene is the wonderfully delicate, slightly hazy October light.

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Royal Society for Public Health @rsph.bsky.social · 4d

🚨The UK is facing a health crisis.

But there are 1.5 million people who could help solve it.

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David Buck @davidjbuck.bsky.social · 5d

How polarised is Britain? www.ft.com/content/c7e4... via @financialtimes.com

How polarised is Britain?

Behind media perceptions of a sharpening political divide is a more complicated picture

www.ft.com

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David Oliver @mancunianmedic.bsky.social · 7d

www.hsj.co.uk/quality-and-...

The trust league tables are not robust, meaningful or fair

Matthew Hankins and Dr Jonathan Pearson-Stuttard highlight the concerns arising from the use of NHS trust rankings and suggest solutions to make them more robust, relevant and just.

www.hsj.co.uk

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David Buck @davidjbuck.bsky.social · 8d

Yes, this. www.hsj.co.uk/service-rede...

The neighbourhood health service risks becoming a conceptual muddle

The government's ambition to establish a neighbourhood health service will fail to move from rhetoric to reality without a clearer clarity of purpose and measures for success, writes Matthew Taylor

www.hsj.co.uk

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John Appleby @jappleby123.bsky.social · 9d

Health economists: Very interesting research tender from NHS Race and Health Observatory - Calculating the Cost of Racism in Health and Health Care - deadline October 17. nhsrho.org/news/cost-of...

NHS - Race and Health Observatory

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David Buck @davidjbuck.bsky.social · 11d

ICYMI: From CMO of England (& colleagues inc @statsgeekclare.bsky.social ), #our #health as a nation. Some will reinforce, some will suprise, should make us all think/question. Very much welcome the narrative, alongside the numbers www.gov.uk/government/p...

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 11d

There's a really nice new study using phone data from Americans who relocated from one city to another to look at the effect of walkable environments on physical activity. E.g., people move TO New York and walk more, they move FROM New York and walk less www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Countrywide natural experiment links built environment to physical activity - Nature

By analysing the smartphone data of 2,112,288 participants, in particular observing and comparing the activity of the same individual in two different environments, we find that increases in the walkability of environments result in increases in daily physical activity, providing evidence of the importance of the built environment on physical health.

www.nature.com

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