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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. Since then I have spent upwards of 10k hours analysing various COVID-related datasets (some being utterly unique) with 336 reports written to date.

With the COVID story thrashed out as much as it will ever be I shall be turning my attention outward to other health issues. I’ll be looking at all things cardiac, along 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 truly independent study.

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A former NHS Head of Department (Clinical Audit) and applied statistician who specialised in assessment of clinical outcomes at a major UK teaching hospital puts down the pruning shears to explore 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.