The NHS/govt sees the independent (private) sector as a way of expanding capacity for the 6.5m (and growing) NHS patients waiting for hospital treatment. A🧵on what’s been happening and implications. 1/10

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NEW: the collapse of emergency healthcare in England may be costing 500 lives every week, a close match for non-Covid excess deaths Let’s look at how we reach that conclusion, by taking a deep-dive into non-Covid excess mortality and its possible causes ft.com/content/f36c5d…

Well done Sebastien Peytrignet and @WillBall12 👏 For more info on findings and methods see our The Health Foundation briefing: health.org.uk/publications/r… #IPDLN2022 #IPDLN #LinkedData #NetworkedData

Are you interested in mental health statistics but don’t know where to start? You may find our new blog useful, with tips on working with NHS data. Here’s what struck us the most (a 🧵) (part 1) towardsdatascience.com/getting-starte…

The argument that’s often made for why we need an alternative model to the NHS or radical reform is that the NHS is unsustainable. The latest to make the argument is Sajid Javid. But *is* the NHS unsustainable? A Friday🧵

Almost a year ago, the Lancet published estimates comparing excess deaths across countries. These, which were flawed and misleading, made news here because they suggested the UK had fared much better than had been thought (below from Daily Telegraph). thelancet.com/journals/lance…

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