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Absolutely fabulous job opportunity @healthfoundation.bsky.social for a Public Health Consultant with the drive to improve health and reduce inequalities through transforming prevention policy - in its broadest sense - across the UK!
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'It’s a win-win situation: greater anchor activity can support the government’s health and growth missions, making more effective use of existing resources and helping to improve the health and wellbeing of local communities.' Frini Chantzi, Policy Fellow at the Health Foundation
How do we unlock the potential of large public sector institutions anchored in local communities to bridge the gap between health and the economy?
Frini Chantzi explores the role anchor institutions can play aligning local economic activity with broader social goals ⬇️
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What influences health inequalities?
Our Evidence Hub has been updated and expanded, with the latest insights into the impact of inequalities by deprivation, geography, ethnicity and disability.
Explore the evidence ⬇️
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You can also catch up on our recent webinar on this topic, which brought together labour market and workplace experts from the UK and beyond, including one of the report authors, @jonnygiff.bsky.social ⬇️
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Insightful blog from @employmentstudies.bsky.social reflecting on their recent report for the Commission for #HealthierWorkingLives, which we support, looking at how the UK compares to 14 EU countries on long-term ill health and employment ⬇️
'We need more than just positive rhetoric – we need a concerted, long-term commitment to fairer funding and the empowerment of local authorities and Combined Authorities to lead in improving health.' Katherine Merrifield, Assistant Director of Healthy Lives at the Health Foundation
2025 could be a pivotal year for enabling local and devolved government to improve health, argues Katherine Merrifield.
However, continuing financial pressures risk undermining the potential of new policies to empower local areas.
Read more from Katherine ⬇️
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However, since its high point in 2015/16, its value has been progressively eroded and is now 26% per person lower in real terms despite today's announcement.
At the same time – smoking aside – many of the conditions it's design to manage and prevent have continued to increase. 4/
And it offers excellent value for money, costing three to four times less for an additional year of good health than NHS interventions. 3/
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The grant funds councils to provide a whole range of services to improve health and tackle inequalities.
This includes drug and alcohol, tobacco, and weight management services, as well as sexual health services, health visitors, and programmes to tackle some of the wider determinants of health. 2/
The details of the 2025/26 PH grant allocations are now available, including the £200m uplift announced first thing this morning.
However, the grant value is still 26% lower per person in real terms than 2015/16.
Short 🧵 on why today's uplift is important and why it needs to be just the start. 1/
Catch up now on our webinar with @employmentstudies.bsky.social on the lessons the UK can learn from international approaches to work and health.
Thanks to Sarah Cunningham, Christopher Prinz, Myrthe van Vilsteren and @jonnygiff.bsky.social for sharing their insights ⬇️
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'The government placed prevention as a cornerstone of the health mission. While increasing the public health grant is very welcome, it will need to be backed up with a multi-year plan to fully restore the grant to 2015–16 levels by the end of this parliament.' Adam Briggs, Senior Policy Fellow at the Health Foundation
Responding to today's public health grant announcement, @admbriggs.bsky.social says it is a welcome first step in putting prevention at the heart of the government's agenda.
After a decade of cuts, however, it needs to be backed up by a plan to restore the grant to 2015–16 levels ⬇️
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@adphuk.bsky.social President @felly500.bsky.social
responds to Local Government Association report.
"Closing the health inequality gap needs an ambitious, health in all policies approach."
👀Read full response➡️ bit.ly/4hL6Qol
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Well timed report from @local.gov.uk on the need for a much clearer approach to health inequalities. Local gov is critical to narrowing the gap
+ great to see it feature @oxfordshirecc.bsky.social as a case study & refer to work from @healthfoundation.bsky.social
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News! The public health grant has today received its first significant real-terms increase after a decade of neglect, something we - and others - have long been calling for.
But it's still 26% down on 2015/16.
More analysis once allocations published later.👀
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The Recovery Grant is an opportunity to support the most deprived areas. Councils are critical in improving health and could do even more to drive prevention - key to the govt’s health mission. Yet given the Public Health Grant was due last month & yet to appear, better alignment is clearly needed.
Up to £3.7bn is promised in extra social care funding - including the £880m uplift. Yet @healthfoundation.bsky.social estimates over £1bn extra is needed next year to meet adult social care demand alone. & crucially, this relies on councils taking advantage of new flexibilities to raise council tax
Govt compensation for costs faced by councils through increases in employer National Insurance contributions (ENIC) is very welcome. However, as @local.gov.uk sets out, the £515m still falls short of the £637m that will fall to councils next year due to their directly employed staff.
A few key points: £515m compensation for cost increases in Employer National Insurance Contributions; social care support in £270m Children’s Social Care Prevention Grant & £880m annual increase to Social Care Grant; & targeting communities with the greatest need through the new £600m Recovery Grant
Communities rely on these services in social care, preventing homelessness, & support for children with special educational needs & disabled people. Resorting to council tax will strain households with already limited income - affecting their ability to pay basic bills like heating & electricity.
The govt confirms councils' core spending will rise by 6.8% in 2025/26, compared w/ 6% previously announced, helping fund some vital services supporting good health. But given long-term underfunding & social care pressures councils will still turn to cuts & council tax rises to stabilise finances🧵
Been reading through the Government's new Land Use Consultation. Here's the juiciest bits I've seen so far!
An excellent, bold proposal to spare 9% of England's least-productive land for nature & carbon - restoring peat bogs & regenerating woods - & changes to ag land use over a further 10% /1
Apparently a new runway at Heathrow could create 100,000 jobs.
A home retrofit industry: hold my beer.
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Except from the Health and Social Care Committee transcript where Wes Streeting says: "We will be making the public health grant allocations shortly—in fact, I am happy to say that we will be doing that in January, which is earlier than it normally comes, so that will give people the chance to plan ahead."
In December, Wes Streeting told the Health and Social Care Committee that the announcement of the Public Health Grant allocations to local councils would be made in January...#clocksticking
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DHSC's now responded to the @houseoflords.parliament.uk 'Recipe for Health' report on how to fix our food system
The response includes:
-a new food strategy to come from Defra
-recognition that it needs a cross-gov approach
-industry to remain v much part of the solution
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Senior Economist (Economic determinants of health) Permanent contract Salary: £65,778 per annum plus excellent benefits Application deadline: 2 February 2025, 23.59
We're looking for a Senior Economist to join our team aiming to improve health and reduce inequalities.
They'll lead a portfolio of analysis and research on factors affecting health, such as poverty and housing, and how health affects the economy.
Apply by 2 February ⬇️
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We're proud to support @healthequals.bsky.social and their campaign to shape a society where each of us has access to the building blocks of good health.
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🧵 Insightful report from @employmentstudies.bsky.social for the Commission for #HealthierWorkingLives, which we support, on workplace health and disability in Europe.
The report finds that, compared to 14 other European countries, the UK is one of the worst performers 👇
