JKMVidimo
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JKMVidimo
@vidimo.bsky.social
Using webtech to reach beyond Health & Care silo/org boundary. Tackling the broader visibility, coordination, patient flow/delays & other quite troublesome things.
An effortless, balanced & worthwhile read.
Particularly like the red flag reference🙂 Little sign of a cohesive system-wide approach, instead, individual practices adopting a NIKE approach – ‘Just do it.’ Or not...
So much potential to do it right though.
www.hsj.co.uk/daily-insigh...
The mythbuster: The government and BMA are both wrong about online GP access
Both the government and BMA misunderstand online GP access. Properly implemented triage improves patient care, efficiency, and reduces clinical risks
www.hsj.co.uk
October 6, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Twitter totally inaccessable

ERROR: Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at play.google.com/log?format=j.... (Reason: CORS request did not succeed). Status code: (null).
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July 15, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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A really good NHS ten-year plan would have focussed on sorting out the plumbing before trying to build shiny new ways to make the NHS great:
www.hsj.co.uk/daily-insigh...
The mythbuster: Disdain for the ‘plumbers’ leaves the NHS knee deep in the brown stuff
Disdain for management is crippling the NHS - undermining productivity, policy delivery, and the essential 'plumbing' behind effective healthcare systems
www.hsj.co.uk
July 7, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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David who is 17 years went missing on 6th June, he & his family are friends

He got on a flight to #kualalumpur via Dubai

The police in UK have been investigating & have passed on information to police in Malaysia.

But 4 weeks & no leads to his whereabouts

Please share #Malaysia mol.im/a/14883131
I haven't seen my son since he secretly boarded a flight to Malaysia
David Balisong, 17, from Cheadle, Greater Manchester, was midway through his A-level exams when he left home on June 6 and flew alone to Kuala Lumpur without telling anyone.
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July 7, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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From just before GE24: Wes Streeting: new think-tank data shows primary care collapsing. Also Wes Streeting: think-tanks do health establishment complacency and groupthink

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Cowper’s Cut 329: The 2024 General Election health policy debate - almost as good as England’s football
Ahem. Is it me or is there a disconnect between the importance voters place on the NHS this election (see below from@IpsosUK this week) and how little it feels like it’s been discussed? Not that it h...
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June 16, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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The new NHS plan for emergency care is full of distractions and doesn't focus on the key causes of the problem:

www.hsj.co.uk/daily-insigh...
The mythbuster: The underwhelming UEC plan
Promising ideas get buried in a confused, under-ambitious UEC plan that misdiagnoses the true nature of the emergency care crisis, writes Steve Black
www.hsj.co.uk
June 16, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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Crowdsourcing: I'm looking for a reference to support the statement "RCTs are a cultural product". Any sociologists or philosophers of science know a good one? #philsci #healthpolicy THANKS!
June 13, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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The new NHS UEC plan is a shock. It is the first plan in a decade not to be full of garbage and to have some genuinely useful ideas. And I don't often say that about NHS plans:
www.hsj.co.uk/emergency-ca...
‘Blame shunting’ by providers leads to poor emergency care, says NHSE
The 'inability or unwillingness' of some NHS and social care providers to work together has contributed to an 'unimaginable' deterioration in emergency care performance, according to NHS England
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June 6, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Why promote the benefits of research using NHS data when the current NHS has neither the capacity nor the will to use its data to tackle immediate current operational problems? ...
June 3, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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Sarah Neville in the FT on lunch with Amanda Pritchard: "The NHS contributes between 10 and 20 per cent to people’s health, she says — a figure I find startlingly low"
This widely quoted figure is startlingly low because it's probably wrong.🧵
www.ft.com/content/5cf4...
April 26, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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The government is very excited about the value of NHS data to support the development of new treatments. This is the wrong focus: the big opportunity is to use data to improve the existing NHS: www.hsj.co.uk/daily-insigh... ...
The mythbuster: Government has the wrong idea on data
The government's focus on using NHS data to develop new drugs misses the bigger opportunity - to improve existing services and costs with data-driven decision-making. By Steve Black
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April 14, 2025 at 8:50 AM
This from Donald Macaskill from 04:30 in, completely nails it. We must think of the patient journey as a whole, regardless of silo or care setting.
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Reforming the NHS in Scotland? Not without social care you won’t. by Donald Macaskill shares
In this podcast Donald Macaskill argues that any realistic reform of the NHS in Scotland can only occur if grounded in a holistic understanding of health and wellbeing and if it focuses first on socia...
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April 5, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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The GMC's survey for trainees and trainers is now LIVE!

📊 Insights from the GMC's national training survey are vital for addressing challenges in health services. Let’s ensure training is valued and protected.

Participate in the survey: gmc-uk.org/nts
March 23, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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And, to be clear, the NHS and public consensus on what the root causes of problems are is often very badly wrong. Zombie ideas dominate (for example: www.hsj.co.uk/daily-insigh... )
The mythbuster: The zombie idea that demand is causing long A&E waits must die
Steve Black challenges a misleading A&E story that blames "minor ailments" for NHS delays, highlighting that operational dysfunction, not demand, is the true cause of long waits, and urging a more...
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March 19, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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I have a big worry that the NHS 10-year plan is trying to derive the strategy from consensus views of the solutions.

It should be driving the solutions from robust analysis of the problem and trying to get a consensus around them...
March 19, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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The only thing that matters with the abolition of NHSE is whether what replaces it is more effective at driving improvement in the NHS:
www.hsj.co.uk/daily-insigh...
The mythbuster: Building a better Department of Health
NHS England has been abolished. But will the service be better off without it?
www.hsj.co.uk
March 17, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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And so much more. In aggregate NHSE was a miserable failure at understanding the real causes of NHS problems and was an organisation that chose popular solutions over effective ones...
March 17, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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My latest column, on why NHS England got abolished and what it means, is going outside the paywall for an hour or two.

If you’d enjoy a weekly column on what’s happening in NHS policy and politics and what it means, why not subscribe?

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Cowper’s Cut 367: A Farewell To Arms’ Length, as NHS England is put out of its misery
“We’ll never really know if NHS independence was effective: it is impossible meaningfully to separate the performance of the NHS Commissioning Board from the two powerful and politically-savvy individ...
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March 17, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Lest we forget - a moment of reflection
While international comparisons can be confounded by different methods of measurement, the main difference between the UK & other developed countries is that the NHS had been consistently underfunded

Covid exposed a failed #NHS with massive gaps in provision, leading to a huge growth in waits
March 9, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Treat yourself well today, do something worthwhile, help conserve this amazing view by making a Comment at wam.highland.gov.uk/wam/ Reference 24/05246/FUL

#Glencoe #Ballachulish
March 8, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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This is an incorrect diagnosis. The volume attending A&E has never been a major cause of A&E crowding. The problem is the speed of flow: www.linkedin.com/pulse/queues...
Queues, not demand are the biggest problem in NHS A&E departments
A&Es are crowded. But not because too many people are attending them.
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March 7, 2025 at 2:03 PM