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Here's Ian Leslie again. This time on "cognitive avoidance”: the habit of inhibiting the processing of threatening information by directing attention to something safer. Instead of confronting what daunts us we turn towards the problems we know how to handle.

I've just realised that what I'm droning on about here (in relation to maps) is what Bruce Gray was pointing me to (much more concisely!) last month! x.com/brucejgray/sta…

Another attempt to visualize the difference that ED crowding makes to four-hour compliance. I've 'smoothed out' the distributions (so that they're both 'perfect' Normal curves) to try to make the point clearer. The means and standard deviations are real, though. #rstats #ggplot2

Look what can happen (in the blue shaded area on the right hand side of the chart) when a health and care system engages with patient flow...

The benefits of a data driven, systems approach and lots of hard work by NHS Lothian and their partners

Are you listening, historians? Yes, we’re all eras.

Neil Pettinger But it is also really pleasing to see the effect that massively reducing delayed discharges has had on patient flow in the hospital and therefore care in the ED. The City of Edinburgh Council have done a really excellent job The Edinburgh Health and Social Care Partnership

Testament to the commitment and sheer hard work of Edinburgh EM and the teams across the front door of the RIE ⭐️Callum Bottom Ray Middlemiss Dave McKean