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I’m a former NHS head of department for clinical audit who specialised in assessment of clinical outcomes for cardiac surgery, cardiology and cardiac anaesthesia at a major UK teaching hospital. Before this I headed a statistical modelling section as a G7 government scientist working on a wide variety of projects.

My interest in COVID kicked-off back in April 2020 when debate centred around estimation of case fatality rates. Nothing ‘official’ made sense so I rolled my sleeves up. Since then I have spent upwards of 10k hours analysing various datasets, some of which are utterly unique.

From 2025 onward I shall be turning my attention outward to other health issues, starting with the curiosity that is the transmission of epidemic influenza. The impact of space weather on human health intrigues me; and the potential harms of electromagnetic radiation would seem to be another field ripe for rummaging among the numbers.

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A former NHS Head of Department (Clinical Audit) and applied statistician explores the story of human health as seen through numbers.

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A former G7 UK government scientist and one-time NHS 'suit' who, being an applied statistician, simply can't resist crunching numbers for breakfast each day.