Welcome to the Midlands Analyst Network
Thank you for being part of our growing community!
If you are an analyst who works in health and care or the wider public sector, then join the Midlands Analyst Network!
The Network has almost 9000 members from a range of health and care and other organisations and with representation from all parts of the Midlands and many other areas too. Established in April 2020 the Network provides a space for analysts across the Midlands and beyond to share information, ideas and resources, as well as seek advice and guidance from one another.
Your Network Lead: Rachel Caswell
Rachel is a Senior Healthcare Analyst in the Strategy Unit who is working to broaden the scope of the Network. Rachel is also the Operational Lead for the Network’s Training & Development Programme.
Fortnightly Huddles
Rachel hosts a fortnightly online Huddle on MS Teams (see link below). The Huddles cover a large range of topics and you are very welcome to join one at any time – for quick access to a Huddle, just follow the link below. You don’t have to be a member of the Midlands Analyst Network to come to a Huddle but if you’d like to be kept up to date with all future Huddles and training opportunities then just contact Rachel and we’ll take it from there.
We try to keep them as informal but as informative as possible and welcome contributions from Network members as well from academia, subject specialists, national and occasionally international presenters.
If you have any queries about the Huddles, how to access them, if you want to find out what’s gone before, or you want to present then please do contact Rachel.
No Huddle on 25th July 2024 (11-12): Summer break!
The next Huddle is 8th August 2024(11-12): Health in 2040: projected patterns of illness in England – The Health Foundation
We look forward to seeing you then!
Recordings of past Huddles are available to view from the links below, including:
- 11/07/2024: What are the impacts of poor questions from decision makers, and how do we improve this? with Andrew Lavelle, NHS England
- 27/06/2024: Describing general practice staffing mix using latent profile analysis with Alex Lawless, The Health Foundation
- 13/06/2024: How much healthcare will our population need in five, ten, 20 years’ time? With Paul Seamer (Strategy Unit)
- 30/05/2024: Forecasting in Retail and Healthcare with Dr Bahman Rostami-Tabar, Professor of Data-Driven Decision Science, Cardiff University and Dr Stephan Kolassa, Data Science Expert.
- 16/05/2024: Assessing the impact of the specialist workforce in children and young people with epilepsy Joe Lillington, HEU
- 02/05/2024: Kent JSNA Cohort Model with Abraham George and Peter Lacey
- 18/04/2024: The National Competency Framework – an update with Sarah Blundell and Andy Lavelle (NHSE)
- 04/04/2024: How to automatically backup SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) reports
- 21/03/2024: The 85% bed occupancy fallacy with Nathan Proudlove, The University of Manchester
- 07/03/2024: Using the Community Services Dataset (CSDS) to investigate variation in access to community services Andrew Jones (Strategy Unit)
- 22/02/2024: How COVID activity and system responses impacted Urgent Care with Andy McCann, and Kelly Bishop (MLCSU)
- 08/02/2024: The gap between need and supply of GP practice consultations with Steven Wyatt (Strategy Unit)
- 25/01/2024: What’s driving increasing length of stay in hospitals since 2019? Health Foundation Analysis with Andrew Mooney (The Health Foundation)
- 11/01/2024: Long term trends in GP practice consultation rates with Steven Wyatt (Strategy Unit)
The Midlands Analyst Network Huddles
These are held every fortnight, on a Thursday morning between 11:00 and 12:00 and everyone is very welcome to come along. For further info and/or if you would like to join the Network and receive invites to every Huddle, then please contact the Network lead, Rachel Caswell, rachel.caswell@nhs.net
To join any of the Huddles
Just click the link below and when you then open Teams, you’ll arrive in the Teams mtg waiting room – we’ll welcome you into the meeting just before 11 …
Thanks and hope to see you soon!
Midlands Analysts Network Huddles - Teams Link to the fortnightly Huddles, every other Thursday 11-12
I just wanted to drop a note to say how fabulous the huddles are, very informative, and you run them so well I really look forward to them.
“I would like to say they (the Huddles) have been an inspiration to me and brought a sense of the wider analyst community to my role which I previously was missing. This has been especially appreciated as I have working from home since March, so the sense of community and ‘all in it together’ is really valuable.”
MAN Huddle Recordings
Questions and Answers and Key Links
The Health Service Modelling Associates (HSMA) Programme (https://sites.google.com/nihr.ac.uk/hsma)
NHSE National Data Service contact details dataservice@hee.nhs.uk
Full Report: Exploring MSK Patient Pathways Patient Experiences: Facilitators and Barriers. And The Way Forward
Presentation slides: Health Profile Reports for the East and West Midlands
Presentation slides: Association between household context and emergency hospital use