Conference Information
We are very excited to announce that the NHS-R Community will be hosting its annual conference, including pre-conference online talks, online workshops and the main conference, during October 2023. The main conference will be a hybrid event enabling both delegates and speakers to attend in person at Edgbaston Cricket Ground, Birmingham UK or online via Zoom link.
The main conference will take place over the following dates and times:
Please may we kindly ask that you register to attend each day of the conference separately.
Conference Content
The aim of the NHS-R Community is to promote the use of R (+ other open source solutions) to the health and care sector.
We are currently in the process of confirming the conference schedule – watch this space for updates!
| Time | Speaker | Presentation Type | Presentation Title |
| 09:15 | Welcome/Sign-in | ||
| 09:30 | Chris Beeley | Welcome Speech | |
| 09:40 | Marcos Fabietti | Lightning Talk | NHSRplotthedots Plotly Update |
| 09:50 | Keiko Toma, Sam Akinloye, Alberto Liuzzo Scorpo, Laura Birks and Allison Jordan | Lightning Talk | Upskilling 80% of an NHSE performance analysis team in R and sharing reproducible code on Github |
| 10:00 | To Be Confirmed | Lightning Talk | To Be Confirmed |
| 10:10 | Will Manners | Lightning Talk | Developing Inequalities Reporting in R |
| 10:20 | David Jephson | Lightning Talk | Reflections on developing a dashboard website in gov.uk style using Quarto |
| 10:30 | To Be Confirmed | Plenary Talk | To Be Confirmed |
| 10:50 | Barnaby Rumbold | Lightning Talk | Using Python and Streamlit for Data Analytics |
| 11:00 | Refreshment Break | ||
| 11:25 | To Be Confirmed | Keynote Talk | To Be Confirmed |
| 11:55 | Claire Welsh | Lightning Talk | Using a RAP approach to uplift existing processes within the National Disease Registration Service |
| 12:05 | Joseph Wilson | Plenary Talk | Releasing the Potential of the RAP Community of Practice with GitHub Actions |
| 12:25 | Dr. Charlie Pinder | Lightning Talk | QA of analytical projects in the health sector |
| 12:35 | To Be Confirmed | Lightning Talk | To Be Confirmed |
| 12:45 | Katie Thornton | Lightning Talk | Developing a reproducible, regular report exploring delayed discharges in Mental Health |
| 12:55 | Chaeyoon Kim | Lightning Talk | Enhancing Analytics: Move from Excel to Python |
| 13:05 | Amadeus Stevenson | Plenary Talk | How I learned to stop worrying and embrace pip, conda, virtualenv, venv and Visual Studio Code (How to install Python) |
| 13:25 | Lunch Break | ||
| 14:35 | Dr. Bahman Rostami-Tabar | Plenary Talk | Probabilistic Forecast Reconciliation For Health Services |
| 14:55 | Roberto Villegas-Diaz | Lightning Talk | You love purrr, but have you tried speeding up things furrr-ther? |
| 15:05 | Matt Dray | Lightning Talk | Base slaps! |
| 15:15 | To Be Confirmed | Lightning Talk | To Be Confirmed |
| 15:25 | Iain Dillingham | Lightning Talk | Less neat, less tidy, and more unpredictable: Improving your code with property-based tests |
| 15:35 | Ross Kennedy | Plenary Talk | Splink: Data Linkage at Scale |
| 15:55 | Chris Beeley | Thank You and Closing Speech | Thank you! |
| 16:15 | End of Conference |
Ticket Information
By registering for this event ticket, you will qualify for the following:
Accessibility
A Zoom link will be provided to you to attend the conference virtually. Please note that subtitles are likely to be generated by Zoom thus, may encounter some issues converting technical language and acronyms to text.
If you require any additional information or have any accessibility requests, please do not hesitate to contact the Conference Team via nhs.rcommunity@nhs.net.
Additional Conference Related Activities
Please note that the conference will also include the following separate activities:
Conferences
October 18, 2023
9:15 am - 4:15 pm
Online
Only authorised members can sign up to this event, please log in first to register.
