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.

RPySOC 2025 Conference Feedback

The RPySOC 2025 hybrid Conference was held online and in person at the Wellcome Trust, London, on 13th and 14th Novemeber 2025. During the event, a QR code, posted around…

Blog

Why Open Data Matters

I have been fortunate to build my career as a data professional in a country where data is increasingly shared rather than locked away. In the UK, the NHS, government…

Mattia Ficarelli

Mar 16, 2026

Lightweight Contextual Entity Extraction for Radiology Notes using R

Working as a Mental Health Data Analyst within Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust, I often face the same barrier many NHS analysts do: the majority of clinical…

Bashir Abubakar

Nov 11, 2025

Quality Assurance without the spreadsheets

Making QA a habit, not a chore

Rhian Davies

Nov 7, 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.