@Samfr , @livbailey and I are doing a joint project on the NHS over the next few months for @instituteforgov and @HealthFdn.
Am v interested in any analysis from those who understand our health system and at least one other (not US). Please do get in touch!
There’s much to criticise about Rishi Sunak’s “maths to 18” announcement, not least that it was so thin as to be meaningless, but the response showed UK elites at worst: proudly innumerate, reflexively rude about maths: https://t.co/B1jq7BROCA
These numbers are so large/traumatising as to be almost unbelievable: 20% more deaths in last week of December than the 5 year average for that week - particularly huge increase in numbers of deaths at home (40% up)
@stephenkb is absolutely right here. And I think it particularly important that our politicians and policymakers learn how programming and algorithms work so they understand what software can and CANNOT do rather than viewing it as some mystical genie.
https://t.co/sNJSedA5uh
Interesting via @stephenkb
"One of the most exciting developments in public policy and in private businesses is the development and deployment of algorithms and machine learning to solve complex problems."
https://t.co/9xdJYZcoGT
At least in health and education the issue is not what will the unions settle for - it's what pay level is required to stem the flow of people out of the professions and stop vacancies being at all time highs.
@dsquareddigest@olibradley@Gilesyb My suspicion is that low capex is a result of the NHS having a very thin management layer, in that broadly, if the NHS had more managers it would have more people going 'couldn't this job that we spend £30k a year on getting a person to do be done by a machine that costs £10k?'