The NHS Research Secure Data Environment Network is powering life-saving research through secure access to insight from the world's largest linked health datasets

Learn more in Becca's blog ‘Research, powered by data’
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Watch Starship's third flight test twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Settling in, ready for my favourite show. This episode, the one where they attempt to hover Starship’s 71m tall booster above the sea before ditching. 👀

Great article in Health Service Journal though needs to have greater visibility than just being tagged as technology! hsj.co.uk/technology-and…

A few thoughts on this helpful challenge from Jess Morley

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As the editorial recognises, the report does indeed not say the NHS should sell data, it is about access to data.

This is the premise of the SDE network too which is already being rolled out across the country.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is facing an exodus of MPs that will outstrip the number of losses the UK’s Conservative party suffered ahead of its landslide defeat in 1997 on.ft.com/3SQKYyd

The greatest possible single improvement for our health and care service would be sorting out data.

My Taiwanese family have health cards with all their health data on a chip. Every engagement with the health system is seamless.

The Times and The Sunday Times Health Commission is right - It’s

Analysis: Surge in heat pumps and solar drives record for UK homes in 2023 | Molly Lempriere w/ comment from Solar Energy UK

Read here: bit.ly/48NL8fw

NEW: we don’t reflect enough on how severe the housing crisis is, and how it has completely broken the promise society made to young adults.

The situation is especially severe in the UK, where the last time house prices were this unaffordable was in ... 1876.

These remarkable graphs from John Burn-Murdoch, who I spoke to at 8.43 on BBC Radio 4 Today, show monumental, sudden, devastating social changes, which have civilisational consequences

It is just astonishing how little attention the complete transformation of young adulthood gets

The Brexiteers must be very proud…

🚨 BREAKING: Guy's and St Thomas' has just declared a critical incident due to a major IT failure according to alerts sent to staff this afternoon:

And another... COVID admissions ramping up just in time for Christmas. 🎄

I'm all for data visualisation, but Twitter is awash with depressing NHS charts today...

Nice summary here of A&E data published today for last month from Matt Discombe . Remember NHS England has target to deal with 76% of A&E patients within four hours - so NHS faces uphill task here bearing in mind winter pressures will likely crank up from here

🚨New elective data out today: the total waiting list fell by 65k in October. That's a a large fall, but still leaves the waiting list 490k higher than in Jan when Sunak promised to cut waiting lists

It's also not unusual for the elective list to fall at this time of year

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An exciting development for a new Covid vaccine: inhaled single dose induces strong mucosal immunity and protection in multiple species, including non-human primates, and prevents transmission across all variants assessed
nature.com/articles/s4158… nature

Normal... Oh so very normal.

This is a hugely depressing chart.

New Britain Remade research has analysed data on every nuclear power station built in the 21st century.

Our bleak conclusion: It costs more to build a new nuclear power station in Britain than almost anywhere else in the world.

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