NHS-R Community – NHS-R Community Quarto website

Promoting the use of R and open analytics in health and care

Building a community of practice for data analysis and data science using open source software in the NHS and wider UK health and care system

Reports

NHS-R 2025 Questionnaire Analysis

This report describes the analysis of the results of a community-wide NHS-R online questionnaire which was active in Spring 2025.

Blog

The RTT Planner tool for elective waitlist modelling – a collaboration success story!

What makes a successful analytics project? Early stakeholder engagement is a determinant that is often cited: if the target customers of the analysis are invested in it from…

Nov 6, 2025

Git Rebase Demystified: Clean Up Your R Project History

Maintaining a clean Git history is essential for collaboration and reproducibility in data science projects. This blog explores how git rebase can help you create a…

Sep 18, 2025

Positron for Product Owners

The clever cookies at Posit (creators of RStudio) recently released Positron, their new ‘next generation’ integrated development environment (IDE), after 2+ years of…

Sep 9, 2025

Books

Health Inequalities

This project is a collection of information and knowledge related to analytical work on “Health Inequalities”, as performed in the NHS and the wider UK Health and Social…

NHS-R Way book

Everything you need or want to know about NHS-R Community including: how to contribute and get involved, code styles, training preparation materials.

Open Analytics Resources

Useful links for health and care analysts and data scientists.