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agreed, catch up soon at council xx

Tbf there are numerous good reasons for this… I’d be worried if they didn’t report on homicide and if anything gun deaths are under not over reported given just how preventable they are.

I was going with yes, you do need foil cutters but this one is also good.

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Jane Goodall said she would launch Trump and Musk on one-way trip into space

Wie schade…

ICYMI: From CMO of England (& colleagues inc @statsgeekclare.bsky.social ), #our #health as a nation. Some will reinforce, some will suprise, should make us all think/question. Very much welcome the narrative, alongside the numbers www.gov.uk/government/p...

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Yes, it seems that way…

MSOAs were created to be a stable geography with roughly similar numbers of people in each. They are a statistical building block geography. In the past wards had been used for that but their boundaries change constantly and they vary wildly in size.

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Good to know there is interest as hopefully this will help us get approval to do it!

I need to make a start on Taskmaster but am behind on Bake Off!

This is the best present you could ever give an autistic person who likes data and it's interfering with my ability to watch Taskmaster

Warning: this is a dangerous report

You will be drawn into its pack of "aha"moments and, without noticing, it'll be two hours later :-)

Thank you!

Yep, with an annoying little blue notification trying to make me read

Deprivation is the main measure used, mainly because of availability on the data sets used. There might be something on occupation, I’m trying to remember exactly what’s in there - there’s over 150 slides

I haven’t done age verification so if you’ve DMed me I can’t see it, hopefully you’ll have another way to reach me instead! 😄

it's something we hope to present on, and if we get permission it will be recorded. So fingers crossed! I will share if we do of course.

Thank you! I will pass this on to the team.

An absolute goldmine of health and mortality data 📊

Well done to all involved in this.

my kids find me cringe, although they have mostly got over that now

south east London is the north of the south imo. there are a lot of similarities.

Great to hear Burnham's been to Mancwalk 2000.

Health trends and variation in England 2025: a Chief Medical Officer report An overview of the health of England’s population, including trends over time and geographical variation.

New CMO report out today on health trends and variation in England. My team delivered this using a RAP developed in R, which made a nice change from lots of people running around putting numbers into excel then pasting into powerpoint... Was not without challenges though! www.gov.uk/government/p...

My dad used to say my job was like being in an episode of W1A (or possibly the Thick of It)

What happened to "but millennials are different"? Not much evidence of anything different among 30-45 year olds here?

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Maybe in 1985, plutonium is available in every corner drug store, but in 1955 it’s a little hard to come by.