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Learn When to Say No
This is an interesting and helpful article from Bruce Tulgan on the Harvard Business Review website: https://hbr.org/2020/09/learn-when-to-say-no
Read MorePRSB survey on community mental health care planning standard
Dear Colleagues, The NHS is working with social care and the voluntary sector to develop new community-based services for people with serious mental health problems. NHS England/Improvement have commissioned the Professional Record Standards Body (PRSB) to help create tools to improve care planning for this group of mental health service…
Read MoreDido Harding questioned on safety standards of using Microsoft Excel
Our letter got quoted on the Digital Health website. We’ll let you know as soon as we get a reply from Matthew Hancock and Sir Simon Stevens. https://www.digitalhealth.net/2020/10/dido-harding-questioned-on-safety-standards-of-using-microsoft-excel/ Dido Harding questioned on safety standards of using Microsoft Excel
Read MoreCovid-19 Data Collection Crisis – Independent Review Requested by the Association of Professional Healthcare Analysts (AphA)
Leaders from the Analytical Professions have jointly written a letter to Matt Hancock, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, and Sir Simon Stevens, the Chief Executive of the NHS. As we have learned on Monday, 5th October more than 50,000 potentially infectious people may have been missed by…
Read MoreINSIGHT 2020: A festival of analysis and learning – Sep-Nov 2020
This is an invitation for you to come to a free, online INSIGHT 2020 festival! The Strategy Unit are hosting a 6-week festival of virtual events, called INSIGHT 2020, exploring some of the challenges facing decision-makers in health and care in 2020 and beyond; emerging models of practice to make best use of…
Read MoreNHS Digital Academy Future Vision – NHS HEE
Please follow the link at the bottom of the page to get involved as your input is important. Executive Summary There is plenty to celebrate in the NHS Digital Academy journey so far and this future vision sets out an offering that builds on solid foundations in the context of…
Read MoreBringing NHS data analysis into the 21st century – Article in JRSM
The Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine has published this excellent article; Bringing NHS data analysis into the 21st century which has been jointly written by Ben Goldacre, Martin Bardsley, Tim Benson, Kate Cheema, Roger Chinn, Ellen Coughlan, Sarah Dougan, Marc Farr, Loraine Hawkins, Adrian Jonas, Andy Kinnear, Morag Mcinnes, Mohammed Amin Mohammed, Caroline Morton, Rahul Pasumarthy, Neil Pettinger, Ben Rowland, Neil Sebire, Paul Stroner, Jeni Tennison, Samantha Warnakula, Oliver…
Read MoreExclusive free trial license and support from Alteryx
Alteryx are offering exclusive extended free trial license and support for AphA members What is Alteryx: Alteryx is a self-service data analytics platform that helps gather disparate data, prep, blend, cleanse and outputs to visualisation tools Alteryx plan to strategically work with AphA to bring this technology to the Analysts…
Read MoreNHS Providers report ‘Recovery position and what next for the NHS’
NHS Providers published a report earlier this week looking at ‘Recovery position and what next for the NHS’, based on surveying 158 Trust Chairs and Chief Executives. The 4 key points identified are below and I think very pertinent in terms of Demand & Capacity and framing the summer series…
Read MorePLETHORA : PLanning the Effective Transformation of Healthcare using Operational Research and advanced Analytics
Reference Guide Series – Progress Update Dear Colleagues, Last year I circulated information about the PLETHORA Reference Guide Series initiative – click here. This project, supported by the Health Foundation, is progressing well and we are currently developing two pilot editions of exemplar guides. If successful we hope this will…
Read MoreAphA Webinar: Data challenges in a time of crisis
The recent AphA Webinar “Data challenges in a time of crisis” is now available on our YouTube channel. https://youtu.be/7kIXDlIJpG0
Read MoreNHSE/I Demand and Capacity – Latest Developments
D&C modelling post COVID-19 The Demand and Capacity Team will be hosting a series of webinars over the Summer to share good practice on demand and capacity planning post COVID-19. These sessions are designed to support providers as they re-open elective services. NHSE/I will look into how they model capacity…
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