John Wood

Respiratory Surveillance at Public Health Scotland. Former actuary (ex-FFA). MSc Epidemiology. R Evangelist. Personal account.

[Public Health Scotland @P_H_S_Official]

There's now a vaccine that helps protect against RSV. In this video, Dr Mike Coates explains what RSV is, what the common symptoms are and how getting the vaccination can help provide protection against RSV.

Visit https://t.co/lnvj6YH0yX for more information.

#RSVvaccineScot

[Public Health Scotland @P_H_S_Official]

The whooping cough vaccine offers important protection during pregnancy and after babies are born until they’re old enough to have their routine immunisation at 8 weeks old.

Find out why it’s important to get the vaccine from week 16 of pregnancy.

#WhoopingCoughScot

[Public Health Scotland @P_H_S_Official]

Public Health Scotland is encouraging pregnant women to ensure they are immunised against whooping cough.

The vaccine offers vital protection to babies after birth until they are old enough to have the routine immunisation at 8 weeks old.

Read more at https://t.co/Myxumc4Eau

[Public Health Scotland @P_H_S_Official]

To mark International Women's Day, some of our colleagues have shared what this day means to them.

Read more from Dr Kim Marsh & help us celebrate her recent shortlisting for Scotland's Chief Scientist Officer Awards this year: https://t.co/8FDqWrdnur

#IWD2024

[John Wood @JohnWood_data]

@AdeleGroyer @lrossouw This is so desperately sad to hear. My condolences to her family and friends.

[Meaghan Kall has moved to Bluesky @kallmemeg]

Syndromic data is a useful thing to show to anyone concerned that the numbers aren’t reliable bc ‘we don’t test anymore’

As I’ve noted before, we have a LOT of data. But no one data source is definitive. Like a puzzle, you have to put pieces together to see the big picture.

[Meaghan Kall has moved to Bluesky @kallmemeg]

The UK has some of the best syndromic surveillance in the world, led by @UKHSA Real-time Syndromic Surveillance Team (ReSST) in Birmingham:

https://t.co/IJ12grEuK6

[Meaghan Kall has moved to Bluesky @kallmemeg]

UK 🇬🇧 isn’t big on diagnostic testing for (typically) mild, self-limiting illnesses.

So syndromic surveillance gives a lot of insight into disease burden.

It gives useful trends that are not affected by changes in testing.

Less lagged so is the earliest signal of an increase.

[Meaghan Kall has moved to Bluesky @kallmemeg]

Do people know what syndromic surveillance is?

In a nutshell 🥜 it is indicators of illness not confirmed by a test: symptom reporting, google searches, and 111 calls, GP visits and A&E visits for “influenza like illness” or “acute respiratory illness”

[John Wood @JohnWood_data]

https://t.co/Ra3NqM6Gg0

[John Wood @JohnWood_data]

I’m really sorry to see this. I had a fantastic experience on the data analysis course, which helped me get my job with ⁦⁦@P_H_S_Official⁩. I hope that all the staff and students find new roles. https://t.co/gO8K8Ydm7a

[John Wood @JohnWood_data]

Brilliant opportunity here: really interesting and important work, alongside some incredibly smart (and very friendly) people!

[Public Health Scotland @P_H_S_Official]

We have multiple vacancies for Senior Information Analysts to analyse, interpret and communicate complex data, which will support better decision making and help tackle Scotland’s public health challenges.

Salary: Band 6 (£37,831-£46,100)

Find out more: https://t.co/VhsnUkW1cK

[Viki Male @VikiLovesFACS]

🇬🇧 UK…

👉🏻 128 measles cases so far this year, vs 54 in the whole of last year

👉🏻 Low MMR uptake means London is particularly at risk of an outbreak

👉🏻 19-25 year olds also at risk

👉🏻 The NHS is launching a catch up campaign. Catch up if you need to!

https://t.co/GQSKe2NnpQ

[John Wood @JohnWood_data]

I’ve just discovered the {esquisse} R add-in. Point-and-click ggplot interface that generates the code for you! How did I not know about this before?

[John Wood @JohnWood_data]

@statsgeekclare @AdeleGroyer @john_actuary @trishgreenhalgh Captured for posterity - the first time you saw a pie chart?

[John Wood @JohnWood_data]

I only made a small contribution to this, but it’s the first time I’ve had my name on a preprint so I’m sharing it!

https://t.co/rmUkEK8PVo

[jjolot2 @jjplot2]

As a noob to #rstats in 2022 I’ve got to say how incredibly useful the @NHSrCommunity YouTube videos have been. If you’re a nhs analyst and want to start using R I couldn’t recommend these videos enough. Intro to R, connecting to databases and Rmarkdown are great starting points

[John Wood @JohnWood_data]

@statsgeekclare Leave R alone!

[John Wood @JohnWood_data]

@_johnmackintosh {patientcounter} - should probably have known about it already!

[John Wood @JohnWood_data]

90% of R coding is realising that someone has already solved your problem, you just need to find that solution.

And in healthcare R coding, 90% of the time it’s @_johnmackintosh who solved it!

Another of his packages doing exactly what I need! 👍👍👍

[Allan McLeod @AllanRobbMcLeod]

Today we publish our first combined respiratory and COVID-19 report and dashboard. Lots of hard work from across a number of teams in @P_H_S_Official to get us to this point. Well done to them all!