May 22, 2022

The Goldacre review- greatest hits

I absolutely love the Goldacare review, I really can’t praise it enough, and I will be doing a lot of work based on it in the coming weeks and months looking at it from the perspective of my own Trust and, (with others) from the perspective of my ICS, and NHS-R.

January 10, 2022

In defence of the ordinary

I think this might be a general cultural problem, but I notice it a lot in my field of healthcare analytics.

December 22, 2021

In defence of looking at jobs

Nobody should ever have to apologise for looking at jobs, however settled they are.

December 16, 2021

In defence of holiday working

This might be a little bit controversial, this post. If you hate it please don’t be offended, it’s just my opinion.

November 24, 2021

In defence of eating

One weird thing in remote/ pandemic times is that people have started turning their cameras off when they eat.

November 16, 2021

In defence of dashboards

I’ve had lively debates about dashboards with various people, including someone in my own team, and somebody on Twitter just mentioned that dashboards are often not used (this blog post will be my response to this tweet, not the first time I’ve answered a tweet with a blog and very on brand for me 😉).

November 13, 2021

Make statistics sexy

I’ve been enjoined to make statistics sexy. It’s really taking root in my brain.

September 17, 2021

Data saves lives- and so does open code

I’m reading data saves lives. And look, it’s that thing that I say all the time, that I have pinned on my Twitter profile, the thing I’ve heard time and time again for a decade that everybody just stands around nodding at and nothing actually changes.

August 19, 2021

Pay and reward

I’m reading No Rules Rules, the Netflix management book. It’s really good, lots of interesting stuff in there about doing things differently and although clearly there’s a lot I can’t do in the NHS, there are lessons in there for sure.

July 19, 2021

Graphs > tables

One phenomenon that I find very strange in the NHS (and elsewhere, probably, I’ve never worked anywhere else) is the obsession people have with having tables of numbers instead of graphs.