Links

NHS

NHS Information Analysis

• Kurtosis
• NHS-R Community
• Chris Mainey
• Chris Beeley
• John Mackintosh

NHS Reference

• Casemix Companion - want to understand HRGs? Start here.
• National Tariff
• HQIP - commissioners of the National Clinical Audit and Patient Outcomes Programme.

Training

• NHS Skills Development Network - free training for NHS analysts.
• Richard Russell - the authority on Payment by Results.

Professional bodies

• Association of Professional Healthcare Analysts - membership includes excellent-value training, tailored to NHS analysts.
• Royal Statistical Society
• UNISON - the trade union for public sector workers.

Policy and opinion

• Health Foundation
• King’s Fund
• Nuffield
• Roy Lilley
• Health Service Journal

Statistics

Visualisation

• Kaiser Fung

Statistics

• Andrew Gelman
• Rob Hyndman
• Forecasting Principles

Software

R

• CRAN - want to install R? Start here.
• RStudio - modern IDE for R.
• tidyverse - very popular selection of R packages for common data science workflows.

SQL

• Simple Talk - Robert Sheldon - clear exposition of SQL Server concepts.
• Simple Talk - Joe Celko - why is SQL the way it is?

Excel and VBA

• Ron de Bruin - Outlook and Excel VBA.
• John Peltier - Excel charting.
• VBEX - VBA extensions, especially helpful for working with ADO.
• Microsoft - VBA Concepts - VBA 101.

Books

• Elements of Statistical Learning
• blogdown - manual for the package used to write this website. I use the Netlify/Github option.
• Geocomputation with R
• R for Data Science
• ModernDive - learn the basic statistical workflow and R at the same time.
• The R Markdown Cookbook
• Mastering Software Development in R