“It’s plain for everyone to see that there need to be meaningful negotiations in relation to pay and there needs to be a rapid resolution” - tells me for Health Commission ahead of NHS strikes
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PLUS and on Rishi’s little lists, and on how to get a pay rise.
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We need to move from a National Sickness Service to a National Health Service - fascinating from and exactly what Health Commission is investigating
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“The things that feel the hardest and darkest are often the doors to other things” - speaks to and me for #PastImperfect about failing at school, breaking his back and challenging toxic masculinity
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The blood test for cancer that could soon be a national screening programme - my piece as part of Health Commission
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Thanks very much for your suggestions. health commission is to represent views of public and of our NHS health/social care staff.
I would love to you to be part of it, so I will be working with Times social media team to connect with you and serve you twitter.com/DrWaheedArian/
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And Tim Cooksley of the Society for Acute Medicine warned that it was “eternal winter” in the NHS rather than a seasonal crisis
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And told Times Health Commission charging for GP and A&E appointments was the way forward. “If you look at virtually other universal healthcare system doing a reasonably good job, they have some element of contribution beyond general taxation,” he said.
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Former vaccine tsar Kate Bingham also warned that NHS and civil service suspicion of the pharmaceutical industry was undermining innovation. “Industry is generally viewed as being money-grabbing not supportive, but I just don’t think those are the facts.”
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Privilege to give evidence to Health Commission today (following ) on behalf of . Important work to help guide and impact NHS policy.
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Charge for GP appointments and A&E visits says @sajidjavid who will give evidence to @thetimes Health Commission on Tuesday thetimes.co.uk/article/sajid-
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“It’s given me a fearlessness. If I can get over that I can do anything” - the actor speaks so powerfully about psychosis in this interview with and me for #PastImperfect. Do listen
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On this week's Past Imperfect podcast, and are joined by Homeland and The Night Manager actor .
Listen to the full talk here: thetimes.co.uk/podcasts/past-
Warning: contains sensitive themes.
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This week’s Past Imperfect from and features the national treasure that is .
You have bountiful options. Download the podcast now, listen on Sunday from 9pm and read all about it in today’s 🗞️📻📱
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“The voice said ‘I’ve got a mission for you. My name is Martin Luther King” - and I speak to about his psychotic breakdown and how it has made him a better actor. For and #PastImperfect
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also says that the “one size fits all” model of primary care is no longer fit for purpose and warns of “cross-party conservatism” against necessary change
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Charge for GP appointments and A&E visits says who will give evidence to Health Commission on Tuesday
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Even in departure, Jacinda Ardern is a politician like few others, writes
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Leaving on her own terms is a sign of strength not weakness - my latest piece for on Jacinda Ardern
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‘A man would be lucky to have the self-awareness to have had six amazing years and leave at the top of their game.” on the departure of Interesting piece by
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The myth of the “nanny state” has been created by “a political class who are ambivalent about nannies because they grew up with them” says - the Times Health Commission will look at tackling obesity
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Exclusive: Bringing cake into the office should be seen as being as socially unacceptable as inflicting passive smoking, Britain’s top food regulator has told health commission.
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Andy Haldane, the former chief economist at the Bank of England said there were "real similarities" between the financial system around the time of the 2008 crash and the health system todayz where stresses built over many years before "a big shock".
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Lord Rose suggested that employees should have a legal obligation to support their employees' health at the launch of
Health Commission last night.
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This was an amazing moment at the Times Health Commission
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At @imperialcollege, newly arrived from Afghanistan, I listened in awe to Lord Darzi's talk about innovation.
I was sitting next to him last night, we both spoke about using innovation in NHS. He smiled when I reminded him I was his student few years ago.
Believe in dreams.
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Thank you for being part of it
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Incredibly humbling to be
@thetimes health commissioner amongst nationally/globally renowned experts to review our NHS.
Its pro bono & non-political engagement to serve PUBLIC & my COLLEAGUES in health AND social care, incl. migration health, mental health, and staff wellbeing.
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At , newly arrived from Afghanistan, I listened in awe to Lord Darzi's talk about innovation.
I was sitting next to him last night, we both spoke about using innovation in NHS. He smiled when I reminded him I was his student few years ago.
Believe in dreams.
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People approach old age “as though they’re standing in the middle of the road with a lorry approaching them and the best they can hope for is they die before it hits them” - Andrew Dilnot tells Health Commission why social care must be reformed
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Ill health is costing the economy £150 billion a year - new analysis for Health Commission makes a powerful financial case for reform
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Former Lady in Waiting to Princess Margaret, Lady Glenconner, talks candidly to Rachel Sylvester and Alice Thomson about growing up as a member of the Royal Family’s inner circle.
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Coming from Afghanistan as a refugee to the UK, with few words of English and hardly any formal education, I started pursuing my dream to make a difference.
Today, I'm appointed a health commissioner to review our healthcare for all.
Never give up on your dreams.
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“It would do a disservice to patients if we didn’t start to modernise and look at different ways of thinking.”
Professor Dame Clare Gerada, president of the Royal College of GPs, says allowing self-referral to specialists would give GPs more time with other patients.
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The Times Health Commission launches today - it could not be more timely. We want to hear from anyone with good ideas on the NHS, public health or social care
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Have you heard? The Times Health Commission has launched.
The year-long commission aims to address the most urgent challenges facing health and social care. Commissioners will draw up recommendations in 10 areas to identify problems and find solutions thetimes.co.uk/article/times-Show this thread
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The Times Health Commission will take a bigger picture look at health, including prevention, tech, innovation & health inequality. So pleased to be working on this project with #Health #health #scicomm #timeshealthcommission
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Have you heard? The Times Health Commission has launched.
The year-long commission aims to address the most urgent challenges facing health and social care. Commissioners will draw up recommendations in 10 areas to identify problems and find solutions thetimes.co.uk/article/times-Show this thread
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🙏 to for bringing together a Health Commission on the grave crisis in the NHS. A much-needed space for some fresh thinking when everyone very focused in immediate pressures. 🚀
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BSA data on the history of public satisfaction/dissatisfaction. Via King's Fund.
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The Times commission, which will report before the next election, will take evidence from across the health service and draw up a radical blueprint for far-reaching reform.
Here examines the crises creating a perfect storm —
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Times launches a groundbreaking year-long inquiry into the future of health and social care. Introducing The Times Health Commission —
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