11 November 2024
Triptych metrics
How many? How long? How full?
8 November 2024
Kaplan-Meier curves
Emphasize remainers over leavers
25 October 2024
Overlapping histograms
A way of visualizing difference
11 October 2024
ED feedback loops
ED crowding and ED length of stay
4 October 2024
In-frame length of stay
The stay visible in the camera viewfinder
27 September 2024
Process capability
'Ought-to-be' control limits
20 September 2024
The Chernobyl courtroom scene
Use physical objects to explain abstract concepts
13 September 2024
The Eisenhower Matrix
Is it the wrong way round?
6 September 2024
Translate everything
Don't assume that everyone speaks data-ese
4 September 2024
Funnel plots in Excel
Compare without confrontation
2 September 2024
We've done data.
But it didn't work.
26 August 2024
Roadmap to Recovery.
We need to be a lot more specific when we talk about 'inpatient hospital beds'
23 August 2024
Meetings, bloody meetings.
Flow_ology isn't a series of graphs; it's a series of meetings.
6 August 2024
It's data, Jim.
But not as we know it.
2 August 2024
Dances, masks and feathers
Fieldwork versus deskwork
31 July 2024
Data League Tables
Pros and cons
18 July 2024
The green zone
The benefit of empty beds in AMU
18 May 2024
Red herrings
Should we include or exclude them?
28 April 2024
The beds/data mismatch
We need to report data that's space-relevant
27 February 2023
When to act on data
A cool diagram
23 December 2022
Operational versus strategic
Patient A versus patients like Patient A
4 November 2022
Flavours of fullness
Not all fullness is equal
29 June 2022
The FlowStories Synopsis
Move from 'what is' to 'what ought to be'
16 June 2022
The gap...
...between the 'whole system' level and the 'exit block' level
7 June 2022
Data with a Human Face
Individual stories help us understand the big picture
27 May 2022
The Shading of the Delays
Does the middle delay need to be made more visible?
24 February 2020
Three Panoramic Views
It's not just the wide sweep
15 November 2019
Furlong Markers
Activity, length of stay and fullness.
11 October 2019
Data Viewpoints
Different perspectives on the same thing
15 November 2018
Albrecht Dürer's Rhinoceros
Can you make a visual representation of something you've never actually seen?
12 October 2018
The NHS-R Community Conference
Reflections on a day spent with the R tribe
9 March 2018
Coalface Data
Information for the grass roots
2 March 2018
Data Form and Function
Data needs new media containers
29 November 2017
SPC: it's not just a technical thing
Don't just master the stats; understand the processes, too
3 October 2017
Tweaking the Learning Healthcare System
Assembling data and feeding back data: these are collaborative activities
30 August 2017
The S in SPC
Do we really have to do those statistical calculations?
25 July 2017
What can NHS information analysts learn from the journeys of Marco Polo?
Can we find a way of superimposing individual patient journeys on static maps?
17 February 2017
Developing analytical capability in health care
Can analysts solve this problem on their own?