dX: You think the NHS should prioritise patient-reported health outcomes for investment?
Me: Yes. The list of items to be considered from my research (with clinicians) in 2022 / 23 is as follows. Why?

BBC News - ONS staff refuse to work two days a week in office - BBC News
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How to improve a meeting (when you’re not in charge). A recent article from Amy Edmondson. The tactics you use depends on the level of psychological safety:
1) The helpful workaround: works when psychological safety is low (on the team or with the person leading the meeting).…

Our latest SWAIH talk introducing the One Devon Dataset is next week on Monday 22nd April.

The dataset links GP, secondary care, community health, mental health, social care and wider population data.

More info, and sign-up here: bit.ly/3TA0ZHU

NHS England has awarded an £8.5 million contract to consultancy firm KPMG to “promote the adoption” of the federated data platform (FDP) by trusts and integrated care boards (ICBs).

Full story 👉 ow.ly/E25050Rh2gF

Let's talk AI Music.

People are creating some amazing AI music and they are insanely good.

10 examples:

Gov going to announce a policy that all boards must have a voting CDO before the end of next financial year! - happy April fools day everyone 💙

Goodhart's Law: “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” A famous historical example is the 'cobra effect': in India during British rule, the government, concerned about the number of venomous cobras, offered a bounty for every dead cobra. Initially,…

This analogy shows smoking a pack of tobacco cigarettes a day for 30 days for a total of 600 cigarettes.

[📹 Chris Notap]

The Florence Nightingale Award is open once again for applications. A really lovely way to recognise your colleague's work or the work of your own team.

Plus, if you win, Royal Statistical Society throws you a gorgeous summer party.
Apply by 29th April!

Yann LeCun Pico Paco People seem surprised, but Yann LeCun isn't the only one.

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My latest: a story yet to get national attention. The NHS Norfolk & Suffolk (mental health) Foundation Trust, 8440 'unexpected' deaths over 3 years - and the human stories of what campaigners call 'lthe largest deaths crisis in the history of the NHS” theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

'If you want to imagine how bad bed management was (and still is), imagine a hotel where the only way to find a free room when a new guest arrives is to send a team to roam the corridors knocking on doors to find which rooms are free.' 𒊓𒅂𒁓𒐗𒐕𒐗 Steve the skeptic in Health Service Journal hsj.co.uk/daily-insight/…

We have recently had 12 months in a row where the global temperature has exceeded 1.5°C above the pre-industrial average. This is due to land use change and humans releasing fossil fuels into the atmosphere. This #dataviz compares global temperature to fossil fuel emissions.

How do people figure this stuff out?

A powerful prayer exhibited in Exeter Cathedral.

Testing Mixed Reality vacuuming. Nice way to get the kids involved in the cleaning! 😎🤌🏼

Recently, I decided I wanted to read every page of one of my favorite websites, Our World in Data.

I’m about halfway now.

Here are the 30 most surprising things I’ve learned about the world so far! 🧵

How to lead across a siloed organisation. Researchers studied senior leaders who are exceptional at cross-functional collaborative working. This is what sets these leaders apart. They:
1) put organisational/system goals above functional, team or personal goals
2) believe their…