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We know about the three planned NHS shifts. But there appears to be an unintended fourth one: mental health to physical health - seemingly caused by the second shift, analogue to digital.

✨✨✨New blog What would it take for the government to fulfil its promise to halve the gap in healthy life expectancy across the country? TLDR: improving health care won’t be enough on its own, govt urgently needs to reduce deprivation. Full analysis here ⬇️⬇️ www.health.org.uk/features-and...

Excellent piece on how inequality manifests itself in ways that aren’t measured by official statistics. Economics does itself a profound disservice when it neglects imbalances in power.

Rule 1 for analytical quality assurance: if your results are surprising, they're probably wrong. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A puzzling BBC headline yesterday, following publication of the ONS inflation estimates. Bread and cereals together account for only 1.8% of the CPI basket. Their price dropped by 2% between Dec and Jan, but the contribution to the fall in inflation is surely minimal?

Exclusive: Report suggests only 1% of annual spend on food and drink adverts will be affected after industry lobbying The junk food ad ban intended to curb childhood obesity will only affect 1% of the £2.4bn spent annually on advertising food and drink, and may prove a “paper tiger”, ministers have been told. The government has hailed the ban on advertising foods high in fat, salt and sugar, which came into force on 5 January, as a decisive and world-leading move that will remove 7.2bn calories from UK children’s diets every year. Continue reading...