The first MethodsNet conference was a great success! And we got some excellent discussion on realist economic evaluation in our session covering Commonhealth Assets REEM Yunus Centre, GCU Sonia Dalkin (moving to BlueSky) Cam Donaldson Dr Angela Bate Dr. Meghan Kumar

Austerity increased rate of premature and low birthweight babies. Amazing, but concerning, work from David Walsh and colleagues at Glasgow University theguardian.com/society/2024/n…

Latest in a series of excellent blogs by Commonhealth Assets teammates on the importance & successes of working with our lived experience panel on emerging findings & ongoing analysis. The LEP is a treasured and highly rewarding part of the project #PPIE NIHR Involvement

There’s a growing community of health economists, health policy and civil society folk in another place if anyone fancies it over there.

Cam Donaldson Nick Kempe

Heading to my other job at Australian National University this Thursday. Tennis in Melbourne first. Then interesting workshop on Valuing Life & Health for Public Policy with ANU philosophers & health economists, great friends from Newcastle University & Jan Abel Olsen from Tromso

Reviews of NHS & social care launched in UK. 2 QUESTIONS 1) why separate reviews when trend is for integrated care? 2)why are expert reviews of Lancet/LSE, BMJ and Darzi not enacted? Blueprint needed? TEASER: I think I have answers. Watch this space over next month or 2

Excited about being in Melbourne to complete our personal grand slam of tennis Majors.

In the pink after amazing Symposium on Valuing Life & Health with these folks, hosted by health economics and philosophy colleagues at Australian National University. John Brooke called me crazy. Such an honour ⁦Yunus Centre, GCU⁩

What can you say about Hanoi? Beautiful, strange & vibrant all come to mind, and that’s just day 1 of our visit!Check out Train St, where the locals and tourists sit in cafes to watch the train go by.

A Social Investment Advisory Group created by a Labour Government with no representation from social enterprise? Bizarre! gov.uk/government/pub…

The Scottish & UK Governments need to stop kicking the real issues around the management & funding of social care into the long grass.Our contribution to the debate John Swinney Maree Todd Donald Macaskill Cathie Russell Cam Donaldson Nick Kempe bmj.com/content/389/bm…

A different approach to health inequalities from brilliant colleagues at Glasgow Caledonian University’s Yunus Centre Yunus Centre, GCU health-inequalities.eu/financing-e-gu…

New book just out reviewing key approaches to funding health and social care based on economic evidence, including analysis of the current state of publicly funded health care and key policy considerations for governments link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

AI to speed up hospital discharges? I wasn’t aware AI could build care home beds, pay staff more and get rid of perverse funding incentives; care homes don’t want those ‘backed’ by poor levels of public funding whilst others delay their discharge rather than pay high private fees

3% pa real terms increases in NHS spend is welcome. Many prestigious NHS reviews have called for this. BUT reviews did not factor in deserved pay hikes & highlighted necessity of matched increases for social care, without which NHS gridlock will continue. Still trouble ahead?

With a special focus on the UK and the NHS at a critical time for policy change, 'Financing Health and Social Care,' by Cam Donaldson, provides the blueprint for policymakers, clinical leadership and politicians needing to pay more attention to the economic issues underlying

👏Well done to GCPH's Mohasin and Jen, and their Caledonian and Stirling University co-authors, on the publication of new journal article 'Creating the conditions for meaningful and effective PPIE in community-based public health research'. Open Access: researchinvolvement.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

The Three Sisters near Calgary. With Gill Curry and another Donaldson. But where is #IHE2025CONGRESS? Hope Bali went well.