The Independent recently got a great story from citizen FOI website whatdotheyknow.com about MPs running tabs in the bars at parliament. It just goes to show what a great resource whatdotheyknow.com is. If you haven’t used it yet, have a … Continue reading →
On Saturday a number of media outlets reported Government claims that nearly 900,000 people dropped benefit claims “rather than undergo a tough new medical test“. Reports in The Telegraph, Express, Daily Mail, MSN and Wales Online, based on a Press Association … Continue reading →
Yesterday Help Me Investigate Health hosted an event: ‘GPs in Control? Reporting the New Health System‘. You can catch up on the talks through a liveblog by Duarte Romero. Audio clips of the opening talks by Richard Vize and Darren … Continue reading →
The NHS Commissioning Board has published a complete list of Commissioning Support Units (CSUs). CSUs will support medical staff running CCGs whilst they acquire the business skills necessary to work independently as commissioners. The list is now final after the … Continue reading →
NHS Employers, the health service’s human resources group, has published advice to managers encouraging staff use of social media. The publication acknowledges the pressures on human resources staff to control negative online coverage – but concludes that an “active and … Continue reading →
Cross-posted from CCG Latest News: Find out about your local commissioning group by looking at this Map of CCG’s in England. If you have information about a CCG’s budget, chairman or website then please feel free to leave it … Continue reading →
On Friday the BBC released documents from The Pollard Report into the Savile inquiry. These were published as scanned PDFs, making it impossible to search text or count mentions of particular terms. We’ve used document extraction service DocumentC…
We’ve teamed up with the BBC College of Journalism for an event on reporting the new health system that comes into force this year. From April powers to control health spending, and to hold that to account, will be shifted. Over 200 new groups of …
Recently the NICAR mailing list (for journalists who use computer assisted reporting) discussed how they dealt with datasets that were ‘too big for Excel’. With their permission, I’m reproducing a digest of the highlights. How much is too much Dif…
When councils publish their draft budget reports it’s not always easy to extract the figures that they’re based on. Here then is a guide to getting the data out of budget reports: Get the ball rolling Budget reports are generally presented in PDF …