Help Me Investigate Health has been live-tweeting today from Sandwell Health’s Other Economic Summit (SHOES) at The Public in West Bromwich. Audio of the morning ‘Dragons’ Den’ panel can be found at http://audioboo.fm/tag/sh…
These are my links for May 8th through May 9th: NHS risk register’s publication vetoed by cabinet | Society | The Guardian – A spokesperson for the information commissioner, Christopher Graham, said he would need to be certain that the … Continue reading →
So to paraphrase Loyd Grossman I’ve deliberated, cogitated and digested my donor data and thought I’d share some of the big themes and patterns I’ve noticed. First, with its current total standing at 18.45m members, the register has grown massively … Continue reading →
These are my links for May 3rd through May 6th: Long-awaited NHS information strategy ‘could mean better data linking’ | Guardian Government Computing | Guardian Professional – "People don't just want to see raw datasets, they don't just want to … Continue reading →
These are my links for April 30th through May 2nd: https://views.scraperwiki.com/run/whatdotheyknow_-_local_gov_foi_requests_with_sprea/?typ=university – Doctors back denial of treatment for smokers and the obese | Society | The Observer – Some 54% of doctors who took part said the NHS should have … Continue reading →
Tony Hirst writes about how he analysed GP data on his OUseful blog (get the data here).
You might want to combine this with the GP patient lists and QOF data previously published on Help Me Investigate Health.
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Since I last posted, I’ve been immersed in donor data – trying to tease out some interesting trends and perhaps, more importantly, attempting to find out what’s behind them. I have data going right back to the computerised register’s inception … Continue reading →
In the last post I introduced you to my data project on the organ donor register – and since then, the topic has cropped up again in the news agenda. Via a Google Alert, I electonically stumbled across an impassioned … Continue reading →
The Independent has been running an in-depth series on the ‘crisis in nursing’, by Christina Patterson. It’s a useful read if you want to understand how the profession and the wider NHS have changed through the 20th and 21st centuries, … Continue reading →
Data journalism is all about pure facts and figures but you need a vested emotional interest in the information in order to bring it alive. For various reasons, the donor register is something I’ve been curious about for a while. … Continue reading →