Respiratory Surveillance at Public Health Scotland. Former actuary (ex-FFA). MSc Epidemiology. R Evangelist. Personal account.
Joined March 2021
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18 Jul 2024
RT @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 comm…
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1 Jun 2024
RT @P_H_S_Official: The whooping cough vaccine offers important protection during pregnancy and after babies are born until they’re old eno…
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11 May 2024
RT @P_H_S_Official: Public Health Scotland is encouraging pregnant women to ensure they are immunised against whooping cough.
The vaccine…
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8 Mar 2024
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: linkedin.com/pulse/celebrati…
#IWD2024
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25 Jan 2024
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.
24 Nov 2023
Reminder: respiratory virus surveillance is hard
Most infected people never get diagnosed or see a doctor
The value in this report is that it triangulates MULTIPLE data sources at MULTIPLE levels of the Surveillance Pyramid to build a clear picture of current trends.
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25 Jan 2024
The UK has some of the best syndromic surveillance in the world, led by @UKHSA Real-time Syndromic Surveillance Team (ReSST) in Birmingham:
gov.uk/government/collection…
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25 Jan 2024
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.
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25 Jan 2024
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”
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4 Aug 2023
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. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-s…
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26 Jul 2023
Brilliant opportunity here: really interesting and important work, alongside some incredibly smart (and very friendly) people!
26 Jul 2023
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: apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk/Job/J…
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15 Jul 2023
🇬🇧 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!
gov.uk/government/news/londo…
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15 Jun 2023
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?
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13 Mar 2023
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!
arxiv.org/abs/2303.05541
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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
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2 Feb 2023
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!
2 Feb 2023
From today, our national respiratory infection and COVID-19 statistical reports are being combined into one publication. A new interactive dashboard is included. View the merged report:
➡️publichealthscotland.scot/pu…
ALT National respiratory and COVID-19 surveillance statistical report
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2 Feb 2023
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! 👍👍👍
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16 Jan 2023
Tie between Scotland and England but Scotland edges it bc graphs are in R and England in excel 😬
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19 Dec 2022
Both of my brothers involved in this preprint…guess what they’ll be talking about over Christmas dinner
New preprint from the UK Far-UV air sterilisation team (inc @CathNoakes & @EwanEadie), successfully simulating removal of airborne pathogens, matching previous experimental data.
Concludes that Far-UV even more effective than thought - this could genuinely be a gamechanger! 1/2
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