Anna Starling
@anna-starling.bsky.social
Public Health Registrar. Formerly Health Foundation. Ex NHS General Management Training Scheme.
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Anna Starling
@anna-starling.bsky.social
· Nov 15
Hello 👋
A bit about me
14 years ago I did this www.graduates.nhs.uk/scheme/gener...,
9 years ago I joined @healthfoundation.bsky.social where amongst other things I wrote this www.health.org.uk/publications...
And 6 years ago I became a public health registrar - due to complete in October 2025.
A bit about me
14 years ago I did this www.graduates.nhs.uk/scheme/gener...,
9 years ago I joined @healthfoundation.bsky.social where amongst other things I wrote this www.health.org.uk/publications...
And 6 years ago I became a public health registrar - due to complete in October 2025.
Thanks to the @theguardian.com for publishing this about my Granny who died in April.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Eve Thompson obituary
Other lives: Chair of the National Schizophrenia Fellowship who pushed for better mental health provision in the UK
www.theguardian.com
May 8, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Thanks to the @theguardian.com for publishing this about my Granny who died in April.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Lovely words from
@rethinkcharity.bsky.social about my Granny, Eve Thompson.
www.rethink.org/news-and-sto...
@rethinkcharity.bsky.social about my Granny, Eve Thompson.
www.rethink.org/news-and-sto...
Rethink Mental Illness says goodbye to a dear friend
We are sad to say that Rethink Mental Illness has lost a dear friend and former trustee. Eve Thompson was a well respected carer and leader of the charity known for her compassion for users and carers...
www.rethink.org
April 23, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Lovely words from
@rethinkcharity.bsky.social about my Granny, Eve Thompson.
www.rethink.org/news-and-sto...
@rethinkcharity.bsky.social about my Granny, Eve Thompson.
www.rethink.org/news-and-sto...
The announcement re NHSE and DHSC feels very influenced by Alan Milburn.
Two relevant quotes from his interview in www.health.org.uk/reports-and-...
The second is regarding the Lansley Reforms.
Two relevant quotes from his interview in www.health.org.uk/reports-and-...
The second is regarding the Lansley Reforms.
March 13, 2025 at 1:27 PM
The announcement re NHSE and DHSC feels very influenced by Alan Milburn.
Two relevant quotes from his interview in www.health.org.uk/reports-and-...
The second is regarding the Lansley Reforms.
Two relevant quotes from his interview in www.health.org.uk/reports-and-...
The second is regarding the Lansley Reforms.
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2024 marked 70 years since the tobacco industry, faced with mounting evidence of the harm caused by its products, issued their “Frank Statement” to smokers reassuring them that the link between smoking and lung cancer was yet to be proven.🧵
February 13, 2025 at 12:22 PM
2024 marked 70 years since the tobacco industry, faced with mounting evidence of the harm caused by its products, issued their “Frank Statement” to smokers reassuring them that the link between smoking and lung cancer was yet to be proven.🧵
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“This is bad, full stop. It creates a class of person who are forever excluded from civic life no matter how long they live here. It’s also a clear breach of the refugee convention.” Damn straigt, @colinyeo.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
UK to refuse citizenship to refugees who have ‘made a dangerous journey’
Home Office accused of shutting out refugees, as new guidance says those applicants will ‘normally be refused’
www.theguardian.com
February 12, 2025 at 7:41 AM
“This is bad, full stop. It creates a class of person who are forever excluded from civic life no matter how long they live here. It’s also a clear breach of the refugee convention.” Damn straigt, @colinyeo.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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NEW ANALYSIS: #NHS trusts reported a £1.2bn overspend last year. 💷
Trusts in areas of greatest deprivation saw the steepest declines in their finances in the year ending March 2024, with the North West and Midlands recording the deepest overspends.
www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/nh...
Trusts in areas of greatest deprivation saw the steepest declines in their finances in the year ending March 2024, with the North West and Midlands recording the deepest overspends.
www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/nh...
NHS provider deficits are back: how bad is the situation?
The fragile state of NHS provider finances has often been well publicised, even if those finances have not made quite the same headlines in the past few years. As Sally Gainsbury and Sophie Julian poi...
www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk
February 12, 2025 at 9:41 AM
NEW ANALYSIS: #NHS trusts reported a £1.2bn overspend last year. 💷
Trusts in areas of greatest deprivation saw the steepest declines in their finances in the year ending March 2024, with the North West and Midlands recording the deepest overspends.
www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/nh...
Trusts in areas of greatest deprivation saw the steepest declines in their finances in the year ending March 2024, with the North West and Midlands recording the deepest overspends.
www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/nh...
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Argh!!! GP admin why are you so frustrating!
I message about something via the online portal this AM. Tell them it’s not urgent + I can’t take a call today anyway.
They send me a text for more info. Great, happy to do that when I get home this PM.
Open my messages to find another text saying …
I message about something via the online portal this AM. Tell them it’s not urgent + I can’t take a call today anyway.
They send me a text for more info. Great, happy to do that when I get home this PM.
Open my messages to find another text saying …
February 11, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Argh!!! GP admin why are you so frustrating!
I message about something via the online portal this AM. Tell them it’s not urgent + I can’t take a call today anyway.
They send me a text for more info. Great, happy to do that when I get home this PM.
Open my messages to find another text saying …
I message about something via the online portal this AM. Tell them it’s not urgent + I can’t take a call today anyway.
They send me a text for more info. Great, happy to do that when I get home this PM.
Open my messages to find another text saying …
Can anyone give me the reason why, in England, the onus is not on the seller of a home to get a building survey. That way they and all potential buyers know any issues at time of sale and avoids multiple surveys being carried.
Is there a big surveyor lobby I don't know about?
Is there a big surveyor lobby I don't know about?
February 11, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Can anyone give me the reason why, in England, the onus is not on the seller of a home to get a building survey. That way they and all potential buyers know any issues at time of sale and avoids multiple surveys being carried.
Is there a big surveyor lobby I don't know about?
Is there a big surveyor lobby I don't know about?
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given that the USAID website has just gone offline, I feel it is profoundly misguided for public health experts to be giving this administration any credit whatsoever
February 1, 2025 at 10:38 PM
given that the USAID website has just gone offline, I feel it is profoundly misguided for public health experts to be giving this administration any credit whatsoever
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“It’s kind of ridiculous that you buy a bottle of orange juice with all this nutritional information and ingredients on it, but a bottle of wine is exempt from that.” - Jem Roberts, IAS.
Alcohol labels should include nutritional information and health warnings.
www.thetimes.com/article/17e8...
Alcohol labels should include nutritional information and health warnings.
www.thetimes.com/article/17e8...
Should alcohol come with a cancer warning?
The link between alcohol and cancer is back in the spotlight and America’s surgeon-general is calling for health warnings on bottles.
www.thetimes.com
January 20, 2025 at 10:57 AM
“It’s kind of ridiculous that you buy a bottle of orange juice with all this nutritional information and ingredients on it, but a bottle of wine is exempt from that.” - Jem Roberts, IAS.
Alcohol labels should include nutritional information and health warnings.
www.thetimes.com/article/17e8...
Alcohol labels should include nutritional information and health warnings.
www.thetimes.com/article/17e8...
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Any chance of Casey accelerating the social care timetable has surely just gone up in smoke
This is quite annoying given that Casey needs to expedite the social care commission if she is to stand a decent chance of having any impact with it
The three-month review will be led by Louise Casey, who is also meant to be looking at social care. She's a busy woman.
January 16, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Any chance of Casey accelerating the social care timetable has surely just gone up in smoke
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That grinding sound you hear is Sir Andrew Dilnot sharpening his stiletto for next Wednesday
committees.parliament.uk/committee/81...
committees.parliament.uk/committee/81...
Health and Social Care Committee Chair Comment - Committees - UK Parliament
committees.parliament.uk
January 3, 2025 at 10:40 AM
That grinding sound you hear is Sir Andrew Dilnot sharpening his stiletto for next Wednesday
committees.parliament.uk/committee/81...
committees.parliament.uk/committee/81...
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There will be no National Care Service..another report concluding in 2028 is too close to the next election for any ‘consensus’. In this potentially historic policy area the government- stifled by Treasury orthodoxy and fear of making a case-has wasted its landslide majority.
January 3, 2025 at 9:18 AM
There will be no National Care Service..another report concluding in 2028 is too close to the next election for any ‘consensus’. In this potentially historic policy area the government- stifled by Treasury orthodoxy and fear of making a case-has wasted its landslide majority.
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The Wallace & Gromit is an absolute treat and the last twenty minutes are RIDICULOUSLY GOOD.
December 25, 2024 at 6:29 PM
The Wallace & Gromit is an absolute treat and the last twenty minutes are RIDICULOUSLY GOOD.
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Lots of great academics/organisations in this starter pack that look at commercial determinants of health regarding alcohol, tobacco, junk food, fossil fuels etc.: go.bsky.app/6nKKEeh
December 17, 2024 at 10:25 AM
Lots of great academics/organisations in this starter pack that look at commercial determinants of health regarding alcohol, tobacco, junk food, fossil fuels etc.: go.bsky.app/6nKKEeh
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Gambling giant deliberately hid identities of high risk customers, financial crime watchdog alleges in unique court case - @henrybelot.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Gambling giant deliberately hid identities of high risk customers, financial crime watchdog alleges in unique court case
Entain, which runs Ladbrokes and Neds, did not have appropriate oversight of its anti-money laundering program, Austrac alleges
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2024 at 8:17 PM
Gambling giant deliberately hid identities of high risk customers, financial crime watchdog alleges in unique court case - @henrybelot.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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www.bmj.com/content/387/...
Tackling digital harms: why simply banning children from social media won’t protect them
Doability
Benefits and harms
Won't make platforms safer
Detracts from wider (and larger) harms
Tackling digital harms: why simply banning children from social media won’t protect them
Doability
Benefits and harms
Won't make platforms safer
Detracts from wider (and larger) harms
Tackling digital harms: why simply banning children from social media won’t protect them
We need to redesign social media and other digital platforms so that these spaces are safer and healthier, writes Louise Holly
Across the globe, countries are grabbling with how to shield children f...
www.bmj.com
December 5, 2024 at 9:59 PM
www.bmj.com/content/387/...
Tackling digital harms: why simply banning children from social media won’t protect them
Doability
Benefits and harms
Won't make platforms safer
Detracts from wider (and larger) harms
Tackling digital harms: why simply banning children from social media won’t protect them
Doability
Benefits and harms
Won't make platforms safer
Detracts from wider (and larger) harms
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In an awards submission for Heineken 0.0, the company noted that:
“success of the Heineken 0.0 campaign has compounded growth for the brand overall in a shrinking market.”
Read Alcohol Action Ireland's blog on how the alcohol industry circumvents marketing ban.
alcoholireland.ie/all-publicit...
“success of the Heineken 0.0 campaign has compounded growth for the brand overall in a shrinking market.”
Read Alcohol Action Ireland's blog on how the alcohol industry circumvents marketing ban.
alcoholireland.ie/all-publicit...
All publicity is good publicity for alcohol industry as it uses zero-alcohol products to circumvent public health rules - Alcohol Action Ireland
Introduction Alcohol is advertised to us in a variety of ways. Sponsorship at sports and music events, products promoted in our favourite movies and TV shows, and displays in shops to celebrate Valent...
alcoholireland.ie
December 3, 2024 at 12:09 PM
In an awards submission for Heineken 0.0, the company noted that:
“success of the Heineken 0.0 campaign has compounded growth for the brand overall in a shrinking market.”
Read Alcohol Action Ireland's blog on how the alcohol industry circumvents marketing ban.
alcoholireland.ie/all-publicit...
“success of the Heineken 0.0 campaign has compounded growth for the brand overall in a shrinking market.”
Read Alcohol Action Ireland's blog on how the alcohol industry circumvents marketing ban.
alcoholireland.ie/all-publicit...
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CDoH Essentials
use to galvanize more effective public health action to tackle the CDoH
HT @ph-anna.bsky.social @maizie333.bsky.social @markpetticrew.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...
Also
www.adph.org.uk/2024/04/cdoh...
use to galvanize more effective public health action to tackle the CDoH
HT @ph-anna.bsky.social @maizie333.bsky.social @markpetticrew.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...
Also
www.adph.org.uk/2024/04/cdoh...
Overcoming doubt: developing CDoH Essentials, a practical tool to introduce the commercial determinants of health
Abstract. Despite growing awareness of the importance of commercial determinants of health (CDoH), there has been limited development or evaluation of educ
academic.oup.com
November 30, 2024 at 9:21 AM
CDoH Essentials
use to galvanize more effective public health action to tackle the CDoH
HT @ph-anna.bsky.social @maizie333.bsky.social @markpetticrew.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...
Also
www.adph.org.uk/2024/04/cdoh...
use to galvanize more effective public health action to tackle the CDoH
HT @ph-anna.bsky.social @maizie333.bsky.social @markpetticrew.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...
Also
www.adph.org.uk/2024/04/cdoh...
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Lots of new additions. Worth a look for those interested in #CDOH #Commercialdeterminantsofhealth
Thanks all for the recommendations to date.
Thanks all for the recommendations to date.
I couldn't find one so thought I'd get a commercial determinants of health starter pack going. Please suggest people to add or ask to be added!
go.bsky.app/6nKKEeh
go.bsky.app/6nKKEeh
November 20, 2024 at 9:23 AM
Lots of new additions. Worth a look for those interested in #CDOH #Commercialdeterminantsofhealth
Thanks all for the recommendations to date.
Thanks all for the recommendations to date.
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Here’s my take on the government’s rhetoric & the reality of their plans on work, disability & benefits: 🧵
1. This kind of rhetoric is damaging, even though the reality is rather different. The benefit system is a source of fear & shame for many…1/6 www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
1. This kind of rhetoric is damaging, even though the reality is rather different. The benefit system is a source of fear & shame for many…1/6 www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Keir Starmer declares war on benefits Britain
The Prime Minister uses an article in today's Mail on Sunday to promise changes to try to tame the £137 billion bill for welfare benefits - including a blitz on cheats and those who 'game the system'.
www.dailymail.co.uk
November 24, 2024 at 6:53 PM
Here’s my take on the government’s rhetoric & the reality of their plans on work, disability & benefits: 🧵
1. This kind of rhetoric is damaging, even though the reality is rather different. The benefit system is a source of fear & shame for many…1/6 www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
1. This kind of rhetoric is damaging, even though the reality is rather different. The benefit system is a source of fear & shame for many…1/6 www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...