The MMR vaccination provides the best protection against measles, which is circulating in the West Midlands. ☑️ Did you know a version of the MMR vaccine, Priorix, contains no pork ingredients? 📲 For protection against measles, contact your GP practice and request Priorix.

The call for abstracts for Health and Care Analytics Conference 2024 is open! ⚡What health and care problems can analytics help address? ⚡How can these problems be addressed through analytical methods? ⚡Why is high quality analysis needed to make impactful decisions? Details: live-haca.pantheonsite.io/wp-content/upl…

HACA 2024 we are live! Now open for registration and abstract submissions Share and elebrate how the great work of health and care analysts can help leaders make high quality decisions. haca-conference.nhs.uk Want to be part of #HACA2024? smartsurvey.co.uk/s/HACA24Submis…

There are some interesting proposes in this that it is worth ICS having a read through as there are changes to life expectancy reporting

Just published in BMJ Open, our new article estimating Quality-Adjusted Life Expectancy for Local Authorities in Great Britain: doi.org/10.1136/bmjope…

Not spotted this article before - does what you are called correlate to the illness you will get? nature.com/articles/s4159…

Catch the latest series of analyses we've done for Midlands Decision Support Network on GP consultations. We estimate that a patient was 12% less likely to receive a GP consultation in 2019 than a patient with similar needs in 2012.  midlandsdecisionsupport.nhs.uk/knowledge-libr…

Presenting the Best Healthcare Analytics Project for the NHS tonight. Amazing innovation going on in all parts of the NHS

A deserved winner #hsjawards UHCW NHS Trust

#TodayinHistory #datavis #Onthisday #OTD 📊 📅Mar, 1628 [no day] Michael Florent van Langren presented the first statistical graph, in a letter to Isabella of Spain [Friendly-etal:2010] See: datavis.ca/papers/langren… for the story

We've got our NHS-R Community RPySOC tickets, have you? Join us at this excellent sharing and learning opportunity in Birmingham on 21 and 22 November. nhsrcommunity.com/events/

The must go event for code first analytics in NHS

Bit of a busman’s holiday today as at National Theatre to see Nye.

What a lift Nye National Theatre is for a NHS under incredible pressure. Reaffirming. Uplifting.

#MapOnATuesday This time it’s this map of the City of Birmingham housing estates, 1931 – produced by Herbert H. Humphries, City Engineer and Surveyor. Ref - MAP/663007 LibraryofBirmingham

NHSR-way - Conference get those abstracts in! nhsrway.nhsrcommunity.com/conference.htm…

Reminder: The implementation of a ‘check and cancel’ appointment system within the Surgery Connect cloud-telephony framework at Hall Green Health (HGH) GP practice has improved patient accessibility and helped reduce administrative burdens. Full story 👉 ow.ly/k7EO50T1LAe

Up north at the the Whitworth for brummie artist #barbarawalker ‘being here’ preview. Amazing MID career as she ain’t finished yet. To see our contribution

Data can provide both challenges and opportunities when it comes to addressing health inequalities. Following a panel discussion at #NHSBRIGSummit, Howard Haughton from King's College London shares his thoughts on the importance of data in reducing health inequalities.

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...