Respiratory Surveillance at Public Health Scotland. Former actuary (ex-FFA). MSc Epidemiology. R Evangelist. Personal account.
Edinburgh, Scotland
Joined March 2021
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John Wood retweeted
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 nhsinform.scot/rsv-adult for more information.
#RSVvaccineScot
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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
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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 publichealthscotland.scot/ne…
ALT Pregnant woman holding her bump.
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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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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.
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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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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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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”
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…
Brilliant opportunity here: really interesting and important work, alongside some incredibly smart (and very friendly) people!
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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🇬🇧 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…
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?
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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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!
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
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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Tie between Scotland and England but Scotland edges it bc graphs are in R and England in excel 😬
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
