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Christopher Thomas

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Wrote 10 Year Health Plan. @IPPR when we coined Neighbourhood Health Service. Founded Commission on Health and Prosperity 2022-4. Author 5 health frontiers.
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How to Make Social Care Better

How to Make Social Care Better

Tribune Magazine — A week ago, the Prime Minister delivered a long-anticipated plan for social care and health. The headline announcements were a multi-year, multi-billion-pound funding settlement for the NHS and a new 'cap and floor' system in social care. The reaction has been tepid at best.
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How Decades of Neoliberalism Left the NHS on the Brink

How Decades of Neoliberalism Left the NHS on the Brink

Tribune Magazine — A steady stream of alarming data continues to emerge from the NHS. Last week, it was confirmed that waiting lists in England had hit 5.45 million, the highest since records began. A few days ago, it was documented that record numbers of children with eating disorders are being left waiting for help.
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How Britain's Growing Inequality Left Poorer People to Die During Covid-19

How Britain's Growing Inequality Left Poorer People to Die During Covid-19

Tribune Magazine — In the 2019 Conservative leadership election, Boris Johnson introduced a term that has since defined his platform: levelling up. 'If I may be permitted to use a metaphor based on the internal combustion engine. We are somehow achieving Grand Prix speeds, but without firing on an cylinders,' he said.
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Only one politically acceptable social care solution can break the deadlock

Only one politically acceptable social care solution can break the deadlock

The Times — National Carers Week, last week, was an opportunity to reflect on the vital contribution of unpaid care to society, health and the economy. In 2021, we look back on a year that has pushed many carers to the brink.
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Inequality Is Bad for Your Health

Inequality Is Bad for Your Health

Tribune Magazine — This week marks another step on our road out of lockdown. For the first time in months, pubs, restaurants, gyms, and hairdressers are open for business. One of the clearest lessons of the pandemic is how reliant our economy is on the health of the people.
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Years in the Making

Years in the Making

Tribune Magazine — The NHS crisis didn't begin with Covid-19 - years of outsourcing, competitiveness reforms, and obsessions over 'efficiency' have decimated the public health service. In an act of magnificent hubris, David Cameron recently argued that the 'difficult decisions' he took while in office had prepared Britain for a crisis like the coronavirus pandemic.
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1% Is Not Enough - It's Time for NHS Pay Justice

1% Is Not Enough - It's Time for NHS Pay Justice

Tribune Magazine — On 17 March 2020, Prime Minister Boris Johnson stood in front of the nation and declared: 'We must act like any wartime government.' It was the latest in a trend of wartime rhetoric that presented Covid-19 as the invisible enemy, and health and care settings as the frontline.
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The Government Has Failed to Inoculate Against Social Inequality

The Government Has Failed to Inoculate Against Social Inequality

Tribune Magazine — At the start of the pandemic, a Covid-19 vaccine was anything but certain. Medical science is as hard as it is unpredictable. Now, in the first weeks of 2021, we have not just one vaccine, but three. That's remarkable news - but as I've argued in Tribune before, the descent from a peak is always dangerous.
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Why has the government gone quiet on prevention when we need it most?

Why has the government gone quiet on prevention when we need it most?

Health Service Journal — The government has gone quiet on prevention, but it could save the NHS, boost the economy and level up the country, writes Chris Thomas
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Opinion: Time to run the NHS at the top of its game, not the top of its capacity

Opinion: Time to run the NHS at the top of its game, not the top of its capacity

The Independent — Independent Premium Voices Covid-19 demonstrates that the current approach to NHS efficiency has failed - even on its own terms. It is time to embrace an alternative, says Chris Thomas Saturday 01 August 2020 11:50 "I'll cut the deficit, not the NHS ".
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Racism Is Not a Culture War Toy - It's a Fact of Life in Britain

Racism Is Not a Culture War Toy - It's a Fact of Life in Britain

Tribune Magazine — The report of the Independent Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities-published on 31 March 2021-caused justified outrage. Its attempt to obscure the role of racism in Britain has since been exposed as an exercise in cherry-picking evidence, poor research, and exclusion of lived experiences. Today-Windrush Day-provides an annual reminder of how ruinous structural racism is.
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Chris Thomas

Chris Thomas

Tribune Magazine — On Windrush Day, the Tory government is once again downplaying the importance of racism in British society - but the evidence is clear: racism remains embedded in the institutions that structure daily life.
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It's Time to Renew the Radical Vision Behind the NHS

It's Time to Renew the Radical Vision Behind the NHS

Tribune Magazine — The NHS is undeniably Britain's most popular institution. Polling to mark the Service's 70 th birthday found that almost four in five believe 'the NHS is crucial to British society, and we must do everything we can to maintain it'.
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Remembering the Aberfan Disaster

Remembering the Aberfan Disaster

Tribune Magazine — Just after nine AM on 21 October 1966, teachers and children in the village of Aberfan settled in for the last day of school. Half term break would start just hours later, at noon. As with every day, class teachers were working through the morning register. But on this day, something was different.
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How UK can become cancer care world leader - Chris Thomas

How UK can become cancer care world leader - Chris Thomas

The Yorkshire Post — What can be done to tackle the backlog of cancer cases? While Covid-19 did not cause the total 'collapse' initially feared, it did force the NHS to take unthinkable action. Cancer screening, diagnostics and treatments were all disrupted, delayed or cancelled at scale. What can be done to tackle the backlog of cancer cases?
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Only one politically acceptable social care solution can break the deadlock

Only one politically acceptable social care solution can break the deadlock

The Times — National Carers Week, last week, was an opportunity to reflect on the vital contribution of unpaid care to society, health and the economy.
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