My opinions–not my clients'–on analytics and other stuff I'm a freelance data scientist and commentator working in healthcare.
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"What is the cost of lies?
It is not that we will mistake them for the truth.
The real danger is that if we hear enough lies, then we will no longer recognise the truth at all."
The first words spoken in HBO's Chernobyl but somehow strangely relevant right now.
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𒊓𒅂𒁓𒐗𒐕𒐗 Steve the skeptic retweeted
spot on. Key is knowing the REAL reason for delays, have digital tools to mitigate and/or address, but also ensuring that the remainder of the path or patients journey remains clear of other bottlenecks... without the unnecessary bunfights & manual overheads historically endured.
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𒊓𒅂𒁓𒐗𒐕𒐗 Steve the skeptic retweeted
However, reduction in beds causes capacity & flow issues with the back pressure likely felt in A&E + Amb waits and electives = 0sumGame. Which mirrors the issue in addressing symptoms rather than underlying causes.
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𒊓𒅂𒁓𒐗𒐕𒐗 Steve the skeptic retweeted
Assumptions like this - shifting focus onto cost cutting rather than delivering svc are likely to result in RP2PP in that beds & staff are sunk costs. Reducing bed count doesn't reduce cost unless you get rid of them, but does allows staff to cope better with lower bed vol.
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𒊓𒅂𒁓𒐗𒐕𒐗 Steve the skeptic retweeted
Don't join NATO and there's a ~23% (3/13) chance of being invaded.
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𒊓𒅂𒁓𒐗𒐕𒐗 Steve the skeptic retweeted
The "tyrannical, destructive COVID-19 pandemic policies that included lockdowns, mask mandates, social distancing, and the ruination of countless businesses and livelihoods" happened when Trump was president. They were all gone within 5 months of Biden taking office.
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RT @BoveFromAbove: Why the hell would you want to bring back an inferior measuring system that hasn’t been taught in schools for over 50 ye…
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𒊓𒅂𒁓𒐗𒐕𒐗 Steve the skeptic retweeted
I’ve posted this as a reply elsewhere but its worth sharing again
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𒊓𒅂𒁓𒐗𒐕𒐗 Steve the skeptic retweeted
Can we bring back typhoid and children chimney sweeps too? Oh and perhaps repeal the Catholic Emancipation Act? They are indeed off their tits
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𒊓𒅂𒁓𒐗𒐕𒐗 Steve the skeptic retweeted
Beds … with the lowest number of hospital beds the NHS continues to cut them
The premise an empty bed cost £. They don’t, they provide flexibility, opportunity to admit someone while another bed is being emptied. Blocked A&E cancelled operations!
NHSE 5000 more permanent beds
the great and the good aren't so great and not so good when it comes to bed numbers.
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𒊓𒅂𒁓𒐗𒐕𒐗 Steve the skeptic retweeted
Nicki Minaj (translated):
“I love Trump so much, I hope he pardons my husband, who committed witness intimidation,
1st degree attempted rape and is a lifetime sex offender
AND
my brother, convicted of repeated child rape of his 11 year old step daughter.”
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𒊓𒅂𒁓𒐗𒐕𒐗 Steve the skeptic retweeted
Chief Deniability Officer Sheryl B. Bahama is doing her part to keep Republican lawmakers unaccountable
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𒊓𒅂𒁓𒐗𒐕𒐗 Steve the skeptic retweeted
"Political scientist" John Mearsheimer's HUMILIATING Ukraine predicitons.
The Jim Cramer of foreign policy predictions.
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𒊓𒅂𒁓𒐗𒐕𒐗 Steve the skeptic retweeted
It’s a remarkable coincidence that SpaceX discovered and closed a “loophole” in a way that severely harmed Ukraine in the very same week that the White House had a dispute with Ukraine. Just astonishing luck that SpaceX lawyers got to the issue at the very same time by chance!
Correct.
Using Starlink, a civilian commercial service, for offensive drone strikes to kill people has never been allowed, nor should it be.
Starshield, a different system, is controlled by the US government. What they decide to do is up to them.
Ukraine military violated Starlink terms of service and used it for offensive drone strikes to kill people. That loophole was closed last week.
Starlink remains critical to the defense of Ukraine, as it is the only system that cannot be jammed or blown up, at least for now. Were Starlink to be turned off, the Ukrainian front line would collapse immediately. This is NOT a threat, it is simply a statement of fact.
Starlink was also crucial to preventing Russia from overrunning Ukraine in the early days of the war, as all other means of communication were destroyed or jammed by Russia.
SpaceX has done more to defend Ukraine than any private company on Earth BY FAR.
That said, I have nothing but UTTER CONTEMPT for the virtue-signaling evil warmongers who push for endless slaughter and offer no realistic solution to the conflict. May you burn in hell.
End of story.
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All the useful idiots promoting the idea that NATO expansion caused the Russian invasion of Ukraine seem to forget that no amount of NATO "pressure" ever persuaded Finland or Sweden to join...
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𒊓𒅂𒁓𒐗𒐕𒐗 Steve the skeptic retweeted
Agree. @YvetteCooperMP was quick to acknowledge discharge was a complete mess. Focus on Flow would address this or at least the ability to see flow in real-time, across Health & Care would highlight where the real issues are, and inform better policy.
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𒊓𒅂𒁓𒐗𒐕𒐗 Steve the skeptic retweeted
Hilarious that you would potentially miss out on high-quality *fictional* entertainment because you are that much of a snowflake.
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@YvetteCooperMP hasn't been Health Secretary for long enough to grasp that NHSE policy on emergency care is a "shit show at the fuck factory". But it is: hsj.co.uk/daily-insight/the-…...
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𒊓𒅂𒁓𒐗𒐕𒐗 Steve the skeptic retweeted
“Mr Bolsonaro, true to family form, said he would try to get the election result annulled, after bad weather and transport problems led the Supreme Court to extend voting hours. (Mr Bolsonaro had himself asked for an extension.) His quest may find a willing backer in Donald Trump, who is close to the Bolsonaro clan, as well as other presidents in a region that has taken a right-wing turn”
Lula, the great survivor, makes history
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𒊓𒅂𒁓𒐗𒐕𒐗 Steve the skeptic retweeted
It’s amazing that the US is refusing major Ukrainian concessions (and these are) while asking nothing at all of Russia. The US seems fine with Putin attacking anything he wants in Ukraine.
🇺🇸🇺🇦 Zelensky offered the US three options to stop strikes on Russian refineries!
"I said: if you want us not to hit diesel, refineries, then let them (the Russians, - ed.) not hit our electricity. This is fair. An energy truce.
The second option is you open Starlink over Russia, we show you the places where there are ballistic missile launchers. We want to destroy them.
The third option is if you don't open Starlink to us, and it depends only on you, and you said that Musk doesn't want it, then give us something that doesn't depend on Musk and Putin - missiles for Patriot."
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