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 in the Midlands then join the Midlands Analyst Network!
The Network has over 800 members from a range of health and care and other organisations and with representation from all members of the Midlands Decision Support Network. Established in April 2020 the Network provides a space for analysts across the Midlands 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.
Next Huddle: 21st September 2023 (11-12): Let’s talk about analysis and creativity with Gordon Stovin & Fraser Battye
‘Analysis’ and ‘creativity’ don’t often share the same sentence. Analysts don’t typically think of themselves as being creative; and it would be rare for decision makers to demand that analysis is done more creatively. But is this right? Is there scope for seeing analysis as a genuinely creative act? Certainly the best analysts seem to think and communicate in interesting and creative ways.
The Huddle will focus on these issues. It will be led by Fraser Battye (Strategy Unit) and Gordon Stovin (Information Initiative Support Specialist / Head of Colouring in). They will explore these issues and will also issue an invite to a future workshop to help analysts spread their creative wings…
We look forward to seeing you all at the next Huddle!
Recordings of past Huddles are available to view from the links below, including:
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- 07/09/2023: The National Competency Framework for Data Professionals with Andy Lavelle and Sarah Blundell (NHSE)
- 24/08/2023: Ideas on presenting analytical work with Andrew Jones (Strategy Unit)
- 10/08/2023: NHS England eProduct Workforce Portal
- 27/07/2023: Musculoskeletal patients’ experiences of the OA hip pathway – A qualitative study following the MDSN report on inequities in access to elective care, 2021
- 13/07/2023: A roundup from the first Health & Care Analytics Conference!
- 29/06/2023: Overview of NHS ICB resource allocation models and the ICB Place Based Allocation Tool
- 15/06/2023: How to Effectively Communicate with your Data – taster session with Dan Isaac
- 01/06/2023: NHS hip replacements and the inverse care law – with Steven Wyatt (Strategy Unit)
- 18/05/2023: Using multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) in health technology assessments
- 04/05/2023: Weapons of Maths Destruction with Huw Day
- 20/04/2023: e.g.s of projects being developed in the Midlands System Dynamics Applied Learning Programme (Part 2)
- 06/04/2023: e.g.s of projects being developed in the Midlands System Dynamics Applied Learning Programme (Part 1)
- 23/03/2023: Using Git and GitHub
- 09/03/2023: RAP – what is it and how can my team start using it effectively?
- 23/02/2023: How is the rapid growth in diagnostic testing affecting the hospital system?
- 09/02/2023: Positive Public Health from Warwickshire County Council
- 26/01/2023: Making data visualisations more accessible to all users
- 12/01/2023: Exploring socioeconomic inequalities in coronary heart disease
The Midlands Analyst Network Huddles
These are held every fortnight, on a Thursday morning between 11:00 and 12:00. To join any of the Huddles, just click on the link below and you’ll arrive in the Teams mtg waiting room and we’ll welcome you into the meeting just before 11 …
For further info and / or if you would like to join the Network then please contact the Network lead, Rachel Caswell, rachel.caswell@nhs.net
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
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