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Gareth Jones - #PLICSinPractice
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NHS Costing Development Manager - MFT NHS
Week 20 of the #NHS100miles challenge, saw walking, strength sessions, cycling

Weekly stats:
19.77 miles walked
20.55 miles cycled
40.32 miles total

717.44 miles for the year so far

276.2 miles ahead of plan
June 10, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Week 19 of the #NHS100miles challenge, saw walking, strength sessions, cycling & American Football

Weekly stats:
14.09 miles walked
9.08 miles cycled
23.17 miles total

649.08 miles for the year so far

255.45 miles ahead of plan
June 2, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Week 19 of the #NHS100miles challenge, saw walking, strength sessions, cycling, rowing & American Football

Weekly stats:
26.06 miles walked
3.73 miles run
11.26 miles cycled
1.24 miles rowed
68.51 miles total

649.08 miles for the year so far

248.92 miles ahead of plan
May 26, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Week 16 of the #NHS100miles challenge, lots of walking, 2 strength sessions, American Football & 2x 5K run PB’s, building pace for the Manc #10K

Weekly stats:
36.45 miles walked
6.24 miles run
42.69 miles total

491.44 miles for the year so far

149.78 miles ahead of plan
May 12, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Week 16 of the #NHS100miles challenge, lots of walking, 2 strength sessions, American Football & 2x 5K run PB’s, building pace for the Manc #10K

Weekly stats:
36.45 miles walked
6.24 miles run
42.69 miles total

491.44 miles for the year so far

149.78 miles ahead of plan
May 5, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Week 15 of the #NHS100miles challenge, saw lots of walking, strength sessions & 4 runs including my longest run to date #10K

Weekly stats:
29.35 miles walked
10.31 miles run
39.66 miles total

448.75 miles for the year so far

125.33 miles ahead of plan
April 28, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Week 13 of the #NHS100miles challenge, saw my longest run to date, 2 strength sessions, walking & a historic 1st win for Rossendale Bucks AFC

Weekly stats:
25.17 miles walked
12.76 miles run
37.93 miles total

368.10 miles for the year so far

88.65 miles ahead of plan
April 16, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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The latest episode of HFMAtalk has landed!

Kathy Roe, Interim CFO at NHS Greater Manchester ICB, and Jacob Lant, chief executive at @nationalvoices.bsky.social discuss the need for a stronger relationship between the NHS and the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector.

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April 7, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Week 12 of the #NHS100miles challenge, saw the most running miles since my injury & the longest run to date, 2 strength training sessions & walking:

Weekly stats:
15.11 miles walked
11.59 miles run
26.70 miles total

330.17 miles for the year so far

64.68 miles ahead of plan
April 7, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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'NHS leaders must embrace allocative efficiency - identifying necessary investments and making difficult decisions to discontinue outdated or low-value services. Continual layering of new interventions over existing ones has created inefficiencies, straining budgets'
Avoiding the three icebergs that could sink the NHS
The NHS should start to use programme budgeting and marginal analysis to help decision-makers gauge the effect of reallocating resources across healthcare services, thus optimising resource allocation...
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April 1, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Week 11 of the #NHS100miles challenge, saw a couple of runs, a good strength training session & some walking & an American Football session:

Weekly stats:
14.32 miles walked
4.45 miles run
18.77 miles total

304.47 miles for the year so far

57.79 miles ahead of plan
March 31, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Fantastic call with James Bedford, one of our Plastic Surgery consultants (& Senior Clinical Advisor for GIRFT Plastic Surgery), utilising #PLICS data to deep dive into the care we deliver to our patients & opportunities for service improvement #PLICSinPractice
March 19, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Supporting our Staff Resource Guide: This resource aims to signpost available support, highlight case studies of best practice examples and suggest what our leaders and Line Managers can do to support their colleagues. Read it here: onenhsfinance.nhs.uk/documents-re...

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March 18, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Week 9 of the #NHS100miles challenge, happy to manage a couple of runs, 2 good strength training sessions & really competitive American Football match

Weekly stats:
18.39 miles walked
3.34 miles run
21.73 miles total

282.55 miles for the year so far

59.9 miles ahead of plan
March 17, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Happy with week 8 of the #NHS100miles challenge. No runs this week but plenty of walking & strength training to prepare for a hard American Football match

Weekly stats:
27.40 miles walked

260.82 miles for the year so far

57.97 miles ahead of plan
March 10, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Solid week in week 7 of the #NHS100miles challenge. No runs this week but plenty of walking

Weekly stats:
27.96 miles walked

223.42 miles for the year so far

49.09 miles ahead of plan
March 3, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Excellent meeting with Shweta from ENT, following fantastic work already done with Ian from the trust #clinicalcoding team, we were able to use #PLICSinPractice data to dive into greater depth of variations in Unit Cost, LoS, Theatres etc against national peers & between hospital sites in the trust
February 26, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Solid week in week 6 of the #NHS100miles challenge.

Managed a couple of runs this week for the first time since Achilles tendonitis, including a 3minute plus reduction in my 5K PB

Weekly stats:
27.07 miles walked/run

195.46 miles for the year so far

44.99 miles ahead of plan
February 24, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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January 28, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Back on track in week 5 of the #NHS100miles challenge.

Still not able to start running yet due to the Achilles tendonitis, but thankfully been able to ramp the walking miles back up

Weekly stats:
27.81 miles walked

168.39 miles for the year so far
February 17, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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February 13, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Fascinating discussion with Clinical Coding, Analytical, Clinical & NHS England colleagues as part of an Options Appraisal Workshop for ICD-11 Implementation.

Heartening to see a great deal of expertise and the breadth of professions of the people invited.

#foodforthought
January 30, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Increase in miles walked & miles run in week 3 of the #NHS100miles challenge.

Weekly stats:
28.39 miles walked
11.23 miles run
39.62 miles total

111.65 miles for the year so far
January 27, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Really enjoyable session with the WTWA Medicine & Outpatients Clinical, Operational & Corporate teams, walking through how to identify and investigate PLICS cost opportunities utilising the MFT Costing #PLICSinPractice dashboards
January 22, 2025 at 11:16 PM