New Recruit
When I had my first interview with WSP back in October 2020, the lockdown restrictions were just easing, and I was able to meet a few of my potential future colleagues in the office. However, just a few weeks later, that had all changed. With rising Covid-19 cases and increasingly tough restrictions, we were all […]
Who Is Our COVID-19 Leader…?
Who is our COVID19 leader….? We have heard a lot about ‘being led by the science’ in the last few weeks, which I have assumed is a means of communicating to the great British public that there is certainty and a sure footing on which decisions are being made. To paraphrase, what we seem to […]
A technology-enabled health and care workforce for the future?
When will health and care services take full advantage of new technologies, or are we doomed – or perhaps blessed – to be always half a generation behind the rest of the world? Prompted by the Topol review WSP recently brought together a group of academics to help us think through the opportunities presented by […]
New approaches needed if the Long Term Plan isn’t to result in more of the same…
Most people won’t be surprised at the key messages in the Long Term Plan published on the 7th January, although there are admittedly some juicy bits to get your teeth stuck into like the commitments on prevention and health inequalities. But, have we heard a lot of it before? Are we indeed on the verge […]
All models are wrong …
It was George Box, a statistician, who is accredited with the quote “all models are wrong, some are useful” – but it is a frequently quoted and well attested observation. Over my twenty-plus years of modelling, the balance between ‘wrong’ and ‘useful’ in any one model is a constant tension to hold, and to use […]