Happy to have supported Cyril Lobont on his first foray into R charting and its interactive, no less 🤩

NEW CHART 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿: There are large differences in the number of GPs between different parts of England, even after accounting for patient needs. But which areas have the highest number of patients per GP? See this new analysis from Lucina Rolewicz
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NEW: Developments in knowledge & treatments for #COVID19 have led to a perception that coronavirus patients might spend a shorter time in hospital than was earlier the case, but is it that straightforward? Sarah Scobie & Eilís Keeble take a closer look.
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A heartbreaking sign of our times. This is the livestream of people turning to CitizensAdvice for help: bit.ly/2wB5hbJ The search terms speak for themselves. Our website is now nearing 400,000 hits a *day* - and the underlying stats are staggering. (1/n)

Lots of hard work went into this from all those involved so great to know at least someone has read it!

#OnThisDay 80 years ago the Daily Herald announced that Lord Nuffield was giving a million shares to start 'a central hospital fund for the provinces', which the following year became... us, the Nuffield Trust!

Our study showing better funded services could dramatically cut epilepsy deaths among young people is a finalist in the ONS Research Excellence awards. To support our call for more research in this area, please consider voting for us (#4) at
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BBC reports extra £1bn for NHS capital spending this yr. There’s a catch: The £1bn is cash hospitals and other NHS trusts already have but have been forbidden to spend. They earned it last yr in incentive payments for cutting their costs [thread, 1/8ish]

A tough listen but powerful - 'We're working with a system that is not designed for us.'

Super exciting to accept this award with Stuart Parker on behalf of the HoW-CGA research team Nuffield Trust Simon Conroy RCP

We think that without the decisive action set out in our report today with The King's Fund and The Health Foundation, NHS nurse shortages will double to 70,000 and GP shortages in England will almost triple to 7,000 by 2023/24.

Here are some of our solutions to plug the gaps ⬇ THREAD

Thought provoking ideas here on the future (or lack of) for statistical significance - 'What will retiring statistical significance look like?' nature.com/articles/d4158…

Interesting but sad findings. Had been wondering if anyone was using HES to look at this. So great to see some published results.

Really enjoyed my first foray into matched controls analysis for this piece of work, learning from the best! 🤓