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Jake Poulton
@jakepoulton.bsky.social
He/Him 🏳️‍🌈 🦻 | public affairs & policy, healthcare innovation and research | fan of cats, jazz and Charli xcx | all views are my own etc
📍Birmingham
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Celebrating the 10-year anniversary of Carly Rae Jepsen's masterpiece E•MO•TION 🥰
GOV​.UK is now GOV·UK

Brand Guidelines www.gov.uk/government/p...

(152 MB PDF. Start as you mean to go on, GDS.)

#govtech #govcomms #designwank
June 26, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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The only thing that matters with the abolition of NHSE is whether what replaces it is more effective at driving improvement in the NHS:
www.hsj.co.uk/daily-insigh...
The mythbuster: Building a better Department of Health
NHS England has been abolished. But will the service be better off without it?
www.hsj.co.uk
March 17, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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realizing i never posted it here….but too long have we been limited by the 2-dimensional political alignment chart. i think by using my new tool we can truly map another person's politics. here it is: The Ideology Cube
December 27, 2024 at 10:17 PM
Bringing this tradition to Bluesky - my albums of the year 2024

Charli XCX - BRAT
Magdalena Bay - Imaginal Disk
Nala Sinephro - Endlessness
Ezra Collective - Dance, No One's Watching
HiatusKaiyote - Love Heart Cheat Code
Nubya Garcia - Oddessey
A. G. Cook - Britpop

#AOTY 1/2
December 27, 2024 at 7:55 PM
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“Just under half of Britain’s very highest paying jobs were located in London 30 years ago. Today that figure is almost 75 per cent.”

Remarkable stat from @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social in this excellent column on our unbalanced economy. www.ft.com/content/eb02...
The London problem is holding young Brits back
Americans and Europeans have a choice of places to prosper
www.ft.com
December 14, 2024 at 11:43 AM
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Starmer claims this is the most ambitious programme for government “in a generation”.

This non-reset is definitely a reset. PM is recognising that people have not yet grasped what his government is for.
December 5, 2024 at 11:36 AM
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No, my storm is also named Bort
November 23, 2024 at 8:23 AM
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Always felt that two weeks’ paternity leave seemed very low but now, facing my husband going back to work, it’s hard not to feel that two weeks’ paternity leave is an utter joke and a very unfunny one at that
November 17, 2024 at 7:02 PM
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🚨 INVESTIGATION: 1,540 children across England have been misdiagnosed by NHS hearing tests. Leaked @NHSEngland documents reveal concerns at 90 units. Insiders say NHSE hasn't acted despite evidence of the scale of harm 🧵1/8 www.thetimes.com/article/e23d...
NHS hearing units misdiagnosed thousands of children and ‘did nothing’
Some got the all-clear when they were deaf. Others were wrongly told they had no hope of hearing. Insiders accuse NHS England of dragging it heels
www.thetimes.com
September 29, 2024 at 7:53 AM
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And we’re all gay!
September 12, 2023 at 10:57 PM