There's one thing I hate... ok, ok, there are many things that I hate. But one thing that I definitely do hate is people taking credit for other people's work. The Coalition Government seem incredibly happy to take credit for the increasing number of doctors in the NHS, despite only being in power for less than two years.
It takes seven years to train a doctor, so I will let you draw your own conclusions about how much credit they should take after less than two years in power. But leaving that aside, what do the figures actually show?
The Information Centre published the latest annual NHS workforce data on Wednesday 21 March. The annual figures are as at 30 September each year - the Coalition came into power in May 2010, therefore the latest annual figures mark a point about 17 months into their tenure.
The two graphs below show the total number of doctors in the NHS, and the year on year percentage change in the total number of doctors.
To accompany the publication of the data, a briefing was produced by the Information Centre. The below graph compares the latest annual increase of some staff types included in the briefing against the average annual increase of that staff type over the last decade.
Now, looking at these three graphs, leaving aside how premature it may or may not be, if you were the Coalition Government, would you be so quick to herald your performance?
Chris
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Thursday, 22 March 2012
Wednesday, 14 March 2012
Highlights from the latest year (2010/11) of A&E data
The Accident and Emergency (A&E) data for the 2010/11 financial year was published by the Information Centre on January 26, 2012. The full data set is available here. It is definitely worth noting that it is still billed as 'experimental statistics', with there being caveats concerning data quality, completeness and coverage. It is however still well worth pulling out some highlights.
1. A&E attendances by age group
2. A&E attendances by month
3. A&E attendances by day of the week
4. A&E attendances by time of day
5. A&E attendances by type of outcome
6. Percentage of A&E attendances spending less than four hours in A&E by A&E unit
And having had to take my baby son to A&E last week, he'll be one of the 0-9 year old attendees on a Thursday in March at 17:00 in the 2011/12 figures.
Chris
1. A&E attendances by age group
2. A&E attendances by month
3. A&E attendances by day of the week
4. A&E attendances by time of day
5. A&E attendances by type of outcome
6. Percentage of A&E attendances spending less than four hours in A&E by A&E unit
And having had to take my baby son to A&E last week, he'll be one of the 0-9 year old attendees on a Thursday in March at 17:00 in the 2011/12 figures.
Chris
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