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Nurse seen from behind walking down long hospital corridor

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Hospital league tables: a statistician’s view

Hospital league tables could be returning to the UK. On the 21st anniversary of the…

Sheila M. BirdDecember 2, 2024

coronavirus leaflet

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Why England’s daily reported Covid-19 deaths are not the number of people that have died in a day

Photo by Hello I'm Nik 🎞 on UnsplashThe UK government provides an update during their…

Kathryn LeemingMay 5, 2020

Nightingale sketch

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Nightingale and the coronavirus pandemic: disease prevention, parallels and principles

An imaginary drawing of Florence Nightingale nursing in Scutari, by her sister Parthenope. Photographed at…

Lynn McDonaldApril 30, 2020

Covid UK dashboard

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Covid-19 data: To age or not to age; to date or not to date?

Pandemic swine-flu, which emerged from Mexico in spring 2009, was a wild thing but a…

Sheila M. BirdApril 22, 2020

Staffordshire

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2013: Year of Statistics, hospitals, cows, and living to 100

Happy New Year. Especially (for a statistical site) because 2013 is, officially, the International Year…

Julian ChampkinJanuary 7, 2013