NHS-R Community Podcast

A conversation with NHS-R Community trainers, many of whom have delivered the NHS-R Introduction to R and R Studio workshop, amongst other courses. The panel are:

Anastasiia Zharinova - Senior Economic Manager in NHS England and Improvement. In her previous role in the Strategy Unit, Anastasiia has provided training on Evaluating Complex Interventions and Simulation in R. She also was a project-manager of NHS-R community, so she is passionate about the training and knowledge sharing.

Annie Yu - Epidemiological Programmer at Hertfordshire County Council. She works in the development of shiny dashboards, automated reporting, and visualisations for public health management and COVID-19 surveillance. She does internal R training and held a workshop about interactive plotting for NHS-R.

Simon Wellesley-Miller - Senior Analytical Manager, NHS England and Improvement, lead for primary care, public health, mental health and quality in South West. He runs training in R, analytical and statistical techniques and is keen to get to more meaningful analytics as Business As Usual.

Presented by Zoë Turner, thanks to Tom Jemmett for editing

Innovative data science with individuals from what was at the time of recording NHSX (now NHS Transformation directorate), with Amadeus Stevenson, Matthew Cooper, and Jennifer Hall, discussing:

* Productionisation of data science and ML

* Finding projects and communicating about them

* Disseminating models

* Synthetic data

* Scheduling algorithms

https://www.nhsx.nhs.uk/ai-lab/ai-lab-programmes/skunkworks/working-with-us/

https://govdatascience.slack.com/ - Slack channel within here called MLOps

https://www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/project/algorithmic-impact-assessment-healthcare/ - Algorithmic Impact Assessment with Ada Lovelace Institute

https://github.com/nhsx/SynthVAE - SynthVAE, variational autoencoder for generation of synthetic data

https://physionet.org/content/mimiciii/1.4/ - MIMIC-III, dataset used as an input for the synthetic data pipeline

https://kedro.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ - QuantumBlack Kedro, pipelining package used on Synthetic Data project

https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/synthpop/index.html - Synthpop, R package for synthetic data

https://www.nhsx.nhs.uk/ai-lab/explore-all-resources/develop-ai/using-machine-learning-to-identify-patients-at-risk-of-long-term-hospital-stays/ - Long Stayers Case Study

https://github.com/nhsx/skunkworks-long-stayer-risk-stratification - Code for the Long Stayers project

https://nhsx.github.io/nhsx-internship-projects/ - NHSX Analytics Unit PhD internships

Code repositories for Synthetic Data project and Nursing Schedule Optimisation project are coming soon

Find out more about the NHS-R Community here: nhsrcommunity.com/

Comments, questions? [email protected]

A discussion about using R for reproducible research at Great Ormond Street Hospital, with Will Bryant and Lydia Briggs from GOSH's Digital Research Environment.

Digital Research, Informatics, Virtual Environments unit (DRIVE): https://twitter.com/drivegosh

Will: https://www.linkedin.com/in/william-a-bryant/

Lydia: https://twitter.com/lrb93

GitHub: https://github.com/gosh-dre

Find out more about the NHS-R Community here: https://nhsrcommunity.com/

Comments, questions? [email protected]

A conversation with Dr. Marcus Baw, Dr. Simon Chapman and Prof. Tim Cole about the Digital Growth Charts app that they have been developing for the Royal College of Paediatrics and Childhealth.

There is a demo of the app here: https://growth.rcpch.ac.uk/

You can view the app's documentation here: https://github.com/rcpch/digital-growth-charts-documentation

You can read a blog post about why the team chose python here: https://blog.bawmedical.co.uk/why-we-chose-python-for-the-rcpch-digital-growth-charts-project

Follow our guests on social:

* Marcus Baw: https://twitter.com/marcus_baw

* Simon Chapman: https://twitter.com/eatyourpeas

* Tim Cole: https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=TCOLE39 ; https://github.com/statist7

Very special guests from NHS Pycom, a community dedicated to supporting users of Python in UK healthcare.

NHS.pycom website: https://nhs-pycom.net/

NHS.pycom main GitHub: https://github.com/nhs-pycom

Python takes the top slot in TIOBE: https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

Mary Amanuel: https://github.com/maryamanuelnhsx

Mark Bailey: https://twitter.com/CotswoldsMaker ; https://github.com/Cotswoldsmaker ; https://github.com/spiritumduo

Adenrele Komolafe: https://twitter.com/AK_DataPharm ; https://github.com/Adenrele ; https://github.com/Adenrele/Hayfever-NHS-Prescribing-Data- ; https://github.com/Adenrele/Web_Portfolio

Sophie Williams: https://twitter.com/sophl_williams ; https://github.com/sophie-w/ONTOSERVER_api

Comments, questions, suggestions... [email protected]

A conversation with Marcus Baw, General Hacktitioner, Clinician who codes, and advocate of open source across health and medicine

* Marcus on Twitter: https://twitter.com/marcus_baw

* Post on wetware: https://drzoeneill.medium.com/watch-the-wetware-what-should-the-doctor-order-b5d1745dcf7a

* Open source medicine: https://medium.com/@marcus_baw/open-source-is-the-only-way-for-medicine-9e698de0447e

* Awesome missing NHS things: https://publicmoneypubliccode-cic.github.io/awesome-missing-nhs-things/

* Best practice as code: https://marcus-baw.medium.com/royal-colleges-3-0-best-practice-as-code-7065bce821a7

* Digital growth charts: https://github.com/rcpch/digital-growth-charts-server

* Public money, public code: https://publicmoneypubliccode.org.uk/

Comments, questions, suggestions for episodes- get in touch!

* [email protected]

This episode is all about the super awesome NHS-R package NHSRplotthedots, which is a packages to draw NHSEI style plot the dots (SPC) charts, featuring:

* Chris Reading https://twitter.com/CReadingSkilton

* Zoë Turner https://twitter.com/Letxuga007

* Tom Jemmett https://twitter.com/tomjemmett

* Tom Smith https://twitter.com/analyst42

* Chris Mainey https://twitter.com/chrismainey

* Plot the dots from NHSE- https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/making-data-count/

* GitHub https://github.com/nhs-r-community/NHSRplotthedots

* GitHub issues https://github.com/nhs-r-community/NHSRplotthedots/issues

* CRAN package https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/NHSRplotthedots/index.html

Install the package, have a go, file an issue, get involved!

Episode 4, talking COVID, maps, open source, Excel, and alcohol research with Colin Angus.

Thanks as always to Tom Jemmett for his fantastic editing

Links:

https://victimofmaths.github.io/

https://github.com/VictimOfMaths

https://twitter.com/VictimOfMaths

Episode 3, all about the Friends and Family text mining project, with Andreas Soteriades and Chris Beeley.

Thanks as always to Tom Jemmett for his fantastic editing

Links:

https://github.com/CDU-data-science-team/pxtextmining

https://github.com/CDU-data-science-team/pxtextminingdashboard

https://github.com/CDU-data-science-team/experiencesdashboard

https://github.com/nhs-r-community/pxtextmineR

https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreas-diomedes-soteriades-05b26319/

https://twitter.com/ChrisBeeley

Very pleased to welcome the awesome gov.uk COVID dashboard team onto the podcast talking about the open code and data that they produced for the public and decision makers to help to manage the pandemic

Thanks as always to Tom Jemmett for his excellent editing.

Links:

https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/

https://github.com/publichealthengland/coronavirus-dashboard

https://twitter.com/statsgeekclare

https://twitter.com/Pouriaaa

https://twitter.com/Sportlondon

https://twitter.com/jbwesty