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Sarah Arnold

@sarah-arnold.bsky.social
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Health and occasionally economics | Senior policy lead at the King's Fund

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David Buck @davidjbuck.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
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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The King's Fund @thekingsfund.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
The 10 Year Health Plan has finally landed. So what happens now? In this first episode in a new podcast series from The King’s Fund, Siva Anandaciva, @charwick.bsky.social and @sarah-arnold.bsky.social discuss what’s in the plan, what isn’t, and what comes next. 🎧 Listen now: buff.ly/ljeV2wV
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The 10 Year Health Plan: What Is It And What Happens Next? | The King's Fund
With a health and care system at breaking point, does the government’s 10 Year Health Plan offer hope to staff, patients, and the public that things will get better? New podcast episode out now.
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Sarah Arnold @sarah-arnold.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
The govt's 10 Year Plan for Health was published on Thursday - my colleagues @thekingsfund.bsky.social & I have analysed the key announcements, read here: www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...
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Truly Fit For The Future? The 10 Year Health Plan Explained | The King's Fund
What impact will 'Fit for the Future: The 10 Year Health Plan for England' have for people, patients, staff and the health and care system? We analyse the key areas of the government's plan.
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Sarah Arnold @sarah-arnold.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
The Department of Health and Social Care just published data on how much its quangos spend on staff. It's interesting to look at spend per full time employee. Most expensive is MHRA then NHSE, least spent per full time employee is CQC and NHS BSA Source: www.gov.uk/government/p...
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Sarah Arnold @sarah-arnold.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
There are many changes afoot to the way the NHS is organised. Alongside the NHSE abolition, ICBs - the organisations around which local service provision is commissioned - are facing huge cuts and existential questions. What does it all mean? I asked my expert colleagues here: shorturl.at/1LSQX
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Integrated Care Board Cuts – What Does It All Mean? | The King's Fund
A seismic shift or a trivial tweak? We asked our policy experts how the cuts to integrated care board running costs might play out in reality.
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Sarah Arnold @sarah-arnold.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Every time I see this graph on poverty trends by group over time, it always strikes me that it is possible to change a group's poverty outcomes - just look at how pension poverty fell in the 1990s and early 2000s
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Sarah Arnold @sarah-arnold.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Latest labour market data from ONS today shows 2.83 mn people economically inactive due to long term ill health -second highest level ever. But like the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee who reported yesterday I'm skeptical that bringing down NHS waiting lists will help much... 1/
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Sarah Arnold @sarah-arnold.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
It blows my mind that in many parts of the country healthy life expectancy is below state pension age. Depressing but important analysis from @jamie-ohalloran.bsky.social @ippr.bsky.social www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitne...
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How many healthy years do you have left? Use our tool to find out
When it comes to the number of ‘good years’ we can expect to live there’s a huge discrepancy across the UK – are you in a health black spot?
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Sarah Arnold @sarah-arnold.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Is the NHS' elective recovery plan achievable? If NHS leaders throw everything at it, it might just be achievable, but doing so will leave them little energy or resources for anything else. Read more here: www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...
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Are Elective Recovery Targets Achievable? | The King's Fund
The newly released elective care plan sets some bold targets for reducing elective waiting times. But can these goals realistically be achieved, asks Sarah Arnold
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