Roger Morgan
@rogermorgan.bsky.social
Sport, medical finance, boats, camping, dog-walking and politics - I used to play a bit of cricket. Now occasionally seen on a golf course - usually in the rough. All views my own.
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If you can't see how this will end, then you're not paying attention (not least to what's going on on the other side of the Atlantic).
October 7, 2025 at 6:34 AM
If you can't see how this will end, then you're not paying attention (not least to what's going on on the other side of the Atlantic).
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Strong arguments from @liambyrnemp.bsky.social on how best to tackle the threat of Farage..
Do so where he’s weak:
The economy⚠️he’d do a Truss++
Workers’ rights⚠️he’s against them
Welfare⚠️he’d strip it away
NHS⚠️he’d dismantle it.
“Populists govern badly but campaign well”
So blow up their campaign.
Do so where he’s weak:
The economy⚠️he’d do a Truss++
Workers’ rights⚠️he’s against them
Welfare⚠️he’d strip it away
NHS⚠️he’d dismantle it.
“Populists govern badly but campaign well”
So blow up their campaign.
September 29, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Strong arguments from @liambyrnemp.bsky.social on how best to tackle the threat of Farage..
Do so where he’s weak:
The economy⚠️he’d do a Truss++
Workers’ rights⚠️he’s against them
Welfare⚠️he’d strip it away
NHS⚠️he’d dismantle it.
“Populists govern badly but campaign well”
So blow up their campaign.
Do so where he’s weak:
The economy⚠️he’d do a Truss++
Workers’ rights⚠️he’s against them
Welfare⚠️he’d strip it away
NHS⚠️he’d dismantle it.
“Populists govern badly but campaign well”
So blow up their campaign.
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So often “NHS” is conflated with “acute hospitals”.
The volume of activity in primary care dwarfs what happens in hospitals.
And for most of the population, their experience of their GP is their experience of the NHS.
The volume of activity in primary care dwarfs what happens in hospitals.
And for most of the population, their experience of their GP is their experience of the NHS.
New data suggest the public's top priority for the NHS is improving GP access
But government's headline NHS pledge is reducing elective waiting times
Hospitals risk crowding out other priorities
Polling @healthfoundation.bsky.social @ipsosintheuk.bsky.social: www.health.org.uk/reports-and-...
But government's headline NHS pledge is reducing elective waiting times
Hospitals risk crowding out other priorities
Polling @healthfoundation.bsky.social @ipsosintheuk.bsky.social: www.health.org.uk/reports-and-...
Things can only get better?
What does the public make of the new government’s early agenda for the NHS and social care? Have perceptions and expectations of NHS and care services changed? This analysis presents findings from the...
www.health.org.uk
February 25, 2025 at 6:40 PM
So often “NHS” is conflated with “acute hospitals”.
The volume of activity in primary care dwarfs what happens in hospitals.
And for most of the population, their experience of their GP is their experience of the NHS.
The volume of activity in primary care dwarfs what happens in hospitals.
And for most of the population, their experience of their GP is their experience of the NHS.
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On Monday we learnt that 1 in 3 children are living in poverty…
And that deprivation has hit a record high
Given their new found compassion for struggling Brits
Where’s Jeremy Clarkson, Nigel Farage and Andrew Lloyd Webber to fight their corner?
…anywhere?
And that deprivation has hit a record high
Given their new found compassion for struggling Brits
Where’s Jeremy Clarkson, Nigel Farage and Andrew Lloyd Webber to fight their corner?
…anywhere?
November 20, 2024 at 8:55 AM
On Monday we learnt that 1 in 3 children are living in poverty…
And that deprivation has hit a record high
Given their new found compassion for struggling Brits
Where’s Jeremy Clarkson, Nigel Farage and Andrew Lloyd Webber to fight their corner?
…anywhere?
And that deprivation has hit a record high
Given their new found compassion for struggling Brits
Where’s Jeremy Clarkson, Nigel Farage and Andrew Lloyd Webber to fight their corner?
…anywhere?
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Oh yes a classic. Here it is from 2021.
Have you ever wondered what the collapse of the NHS would actually look like? It's in the small things - my latest Independent newsletter: link.e.independent.co.uk/view/60e48d536…link.e.independent.co.uk/view/60e48d5...ba
Have you ever wondered what the collapse of the NHS would actually look like? It's in the small things - my latest Independent newsletter: link.e.independent.co.uk/view/60e48d536…link.e.independent.co.uk/view/60e48d5...ba
November 19, 2024 at 8:44 AM
Oh yes a classic. Here it is from 2021.
Have you ever wondered what the collapse of the NHS would actually look like? It's in the small things - my latest Independent newsletter: link.e.independent.co.uk/view/60e48d536…link.e.independent.co.uk/view/60e48d5...ba
Have you ever wondered what the collapse of the NHS would actually look like? It's in the small things - my latest Independent newsletter: link.e.independent.co.uk/view/60e48d536…link.e.independent.co.uk/view/60e48d5...ba
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In fact, Clarkson & Dyson, by buying farmland themselves, have actually helped push up the price of farmland, which constitutes to higher Inheritance tax (& lower yields). Farmers should be lambasting Clarkson, not buying him a pint!
November 19, 2024 at 8:05 AM
In fact, Clarkson & Dyson, by buying farmland themselves, have actually helped push up the price of farmland, which constitutes to higher Inheritance tax (& lower yields). Farmers should be lambasting Clarkson, not buying him a pint!
This is definitely me! Presumably this makes me a ‘Procaffeinator’ then? 😂
Word of this morning is ‘procaffeinate’: to put everything on hold until you’ve had sufficient amounts of coffee.
November 18, 2024 at 10:56 AM
This is definitely me! Presumably this makes me a ‘Procaffeinator’ then? 😂
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There is overwhelming evidence that the policies & funding of NHS England & GMC are set on replacing Doctors with PAs
When stating PAs have been integral to the NHS for 20years they are lying
2015 there were just 15 PAs in General Practice only 109 in hospitals
I don’t understand the reasons
When stating PAs have been integral to the NHS for 20years they are lying
2015 there were just 15 PAs in General Practice only 109 in hospitals
I don’t understand the reasons
November 16, 2024 at 3:25 PM
There is overwhelming evidence that the policies & funding of NHS England & GMC are set on replacing Doctors with PAs
When stating PAs have been integral to the NHS for 20years they are lying
2015 there were just 15 PAs in General Practice only 109 in hospitals
I don’t understand the reasons
When stating PAs have been integral to the NHS for 20years they are lying
2015 there were just 15 PAs in General Practice only 109 in hospitals
I don’t understand the reasons
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Pretty wild that, in a system where we say there is a “productivity crisis” in hospitals and we don’t really understand what is causing it, we think we can centrally produce league tables and sack the managers of the organisations at the bottom.
NHS league tables.
Again.
Sigh.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
“Half a league table, half a league table, half a league table onward,
Into the valley of the shadow of career death
Rode the six hundred.”
(With apologies to Alfred Tennyson.)
Again.
Sigh.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
“Half a league table, half a league table, half a league table onward,
Into the valley of the shadow of career death
Rode the six hundred.”
(With apologies to Alfred Tennyson.)
League tables to reveal failing NHS trusts
Hospitals in England will be ranked on care and finances, so patients can look for good service.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 13, 2024 at 12:12 PM
Pretty wild that, in a system where we say there is a “productivity crisis” in hospitals and we don’t really understand what is causing it, we think we can centrally produce league tables and sack the managers of the organisations at the bottom.
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It seems that NHS England will be drawing up these league tables.
Slight problem: since their years of encouraging NHS organisations and systems to lie about their finances, NHSE’s credibility has been utterly shredded.
www.hsj.co.uk/finance-and-...
Slight problem: since their years of encouraging NHS organisations and systems to lie about their finances, NHSE’s credibility has been utterly shredded.
www.hsj.co.uk/finance-and-...
NHSE desire to please govt forcing finance chiefs to agree undeliverable plans
One of the NHS's foremost finance figures has joined the chorus of senior healthcare leaders raising serious concerns about the damaging effect of the way the service's annual planning round is conduc...
www.hsj.co.uk
November 13, 2024 at 10:24 AM
It seems that NHS England will be drawing up these league tables.
Slight problem: since their years of encouraging NHS organisations and systems to lie about their finances, NHSE’s credibility has been utterly shredded.
www.hsj.co.uk/finance-and-...
Slight problem: since their years of encouraging NHS organisations and systems to lie about their finances, NHSE’s credibility has been utterly shredded.
www.hsj.co.uk/finance-and-...
NHSE are not fit for purpose. They encourage the managers to play the game and then hang them out to dry. They set unrealistic budgets which means Trusts inevitably overspend and then bail them out so the following year the managers just ignore the budgets. Except they don’t bail out GPs/Pharmacies
It seems that NHS England will be drawing up these league tables.
Slight problem: since their years of encouraging NHS organisations and systems to lie about their finances, NHSE’s credibility has been utterly shredded.
www.hsj.co.uk/finance-and-...
Slight problem: since their years of encouraging NHS organisations and systems to lie about their finances, NHSE’s credibility has been utterly shredded.
www.hsj.co.uk/finance-and-...
NHSE desire to please govt forcing finance chiefs to agree undeliverable plans
One of the NHS's foremost finance figures has joined the chorus of senior healthcare leaders raising serious concerns about the damaging effect of the way the service's annual planning round is conduc...
www.hsj.co.uk
November 17, 2024 at 6:03 PM
NHSE are not fit for purpose. They encourage the managers to play the game and then hang them out to dry. They set unrealistic budgets which means Trusts inevitably overspend and then bail them out so the following year the managers just ignore the budgets. Except they don’t bail out GPs/Pharmacies
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"You can't have a ten year plan for the NHS if you don't have a serious plan for social care too."
Ed Davey talks to Laura Kuenssberg about the need for cross-party collaboration on social care.
youtu.be/W8fZqmn83MQ
Ed Davey talks to Laura Kuenssberg about the need for cross-party collaboration on social care.
youtu.be/W8fZqmn83MQ
We need a real plan for social care
YouTube video by Liberal Democrats
youtu.be
November 17, 2024 at 5:15 PM
"You can't have a ten year plan for the NHS if you don't have a serious plan for social care too."
Ed Davey talks to Laura Kuenssberg about the need for cross-party collaboration on social care.
youtu.be/W8fZqmn83MQ
Ed Davey talks to Laura Kuenssberg about the need for cross-party collaboration on social care.
youtu.be/W8fZqmn83MQ
Oh Dear - I have not been on Bluesky long and I have had cause to block my first account today who felt the need to tell me to ‘broaden my outlook’. I like the fact we have the power here to curate our own interactions but I do hope we can keep the negativity and toxicity of X out. No second chance.
November 17, 2024 at 5:28 PM
Oh Dear - I have not been on Bluesky long and I have had cause to block my first account today who felt the need to tell me to ‘broaden my outlook’. I like the fact we have the power here to curate our own interactions but I do hope we can keep the negativity and toxicity of X out. No second chance.
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Word of the Day is a true favourite, as some of you will know.
Apricity (17th century) is the warmth of the sun on a winter’s day.
Apricity (17th century) is the warmth of the sun on a winter’s day.
November 17, 2024 at 10:09 AM
Word of the Day is a true favourite, as some of you will know.
Apricity (17th century) is the warmth of the sun on a winter’s day.
Apricity (17th century) is the warmth of the sun on a winter’s day.
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I learned some stuff about Bluesky I did not know by reading this.
Maybe worth passing it on to others so we can all start getting the full benefit of the 🦋.
Maybe worth passing it on to others so we can all start getting the full benefit of the 🦋.
Here’s some cool stuff you can do with Bluesky
It’s not just an Alf pics repository.
www.theverge.com
November 17, 2024 at 8:55 AM
I learned some stuff about Bluesky I did not know by reading this.
Maybe worth passing it on to others so we can all start getting the full benefit of the 🦋.
Maybe worth passing it on to others so we can all start getting the full benefit of the 🦋.
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I’d like to try a starter pack about NHS finance and pension specialists but so far can only find @rogermorgan.bsky.social ! If anyone knows anyone else on here let me know … otherwise it’s a short pack 😂
August 21, 2024 at 11:28 AM
I’d like to try a starter pack about NHS finance and pension specialists but so far can only find @rogermorgan.bsky.social ! If anyone knows anyone else on here let me know … otherwise it’s a short pack 😂
The Mail online article about Kumar playing for Shillingstone. I haven’t yet sussed how to link it to my post so you will need to search for it direct.
August 21, 2024 at 9:27 AM
The Mail online article about Kumar playing for Shillingstone. I haven’t yet sussed how to link it to my post so you will need to search for it direct.
Sangakkara scored 28,000 runs for Sri Lanka - now he plays in Dorset.
It’s amazing and slightly surreal to see Kumar playing cricket for my home village and with one of my sons just 200 yards from my house! I love the fact that he still gets so much joy from just playing the game and the team.
It’s amazing and slightly surreal to see Kumar playing cricket for my home village and with one of my sons just 200 yards from my house! I love the fact that he still gets so much joy from just playing the game and the team.
August 21, 2024 at 9:25 AM
Sangakkara scored 28,000 runs for Sri Lanka - now he plays in Dorset.
It’s amazing and slightly surreal to see Kumar playing cricket for my home village and with one of my sons just 200 yards from my house! I love the fact that he still gets so much joy from just playing the game and the team.
It’s amazing and slightly surreal to see Kumar playing cricket for my home village and with one of my sons just 200 yards from my house! I love the fact that he still gets so much joy from just playing the game and the team.
Chesil Beach, Dorset
August 18, 2024 at 10:39 PM
Chesil Beach, Dorset
Not quite sure why I have a timeline filled with cats! I must have pressed the wrong button somewhere - I mean they are very cute but I’m more a dog person…
August 17, 2024 at 6:15 PM
Not quite sure why I have a timeline filled with cats! I must have pressed the wrong button somewhere - I mean they are very cute but I’m more a dog person…
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Very striking how much of a gap has opened up between left and right in concern over immigration.
Look at the average and it’s “Britons are getting pretty concerned about immigration”.
Split by party and it becomes “Some Britons are now extremely concerned about immigration, others much less so”.
Look at the average and it’s “Britons are getting pretty concerned about immigration”.
Split by party and it becomes “Some Britons are now extremely concerned about immigration, others much less so”.
August 17, 2024 at 11:45 AM
Very striking how much of a gap has opened up between left and right in concern over immigration.
Look at the average and it’s “Britons are getting pretty concerned about immigration”.
Split by party and it becomes “Some Britons are now extremely concerned about immigration, others much less so”.
Look at the average and it’s “Britons are getting pretty concerned about immigration”.
Split by party and it becomes “Some Britons are now extremely concerned about immigration, others much less so”.