Andy Charlwood
@andy.charlwood.xyz
Pharmacist of the data nerd variety. D. Head of Pop. Health & Data Analytics @ N&WICB.
Stitches together other people's work from stackoverflow and puts own name on it.
All views are my own, not employer's.
https://andy.charlwood.xyz/
#PharmSky
Stitches together other people's work from stackoverflow and puts own name on it.
All views are my own, not employer's.
https://andy.charlwood.xyz/
#PharmSky
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Andy Charlwood
@andy.charlwood.xyz
· Apr 3
After seeing FiveThirtyEights implementation of this idea (thank you @andrew.heiss.phd for sharing), I've been working on a medicine themed p-hacking simulator called Placebo playground: medicines.charlwood.xyz#phacking
#pharmsky #healtheconomics #medsky #pharmacy
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#pharmsky #healtheconomics #medsky #pharmacy
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50 months? How the hell is that a "significant sentence ... in order to be a deterrence, and to send a message." - that's nothing.
Like, legitimately how has this happened #pdiddy
Aside from ya know, money buys everything in 'Murica.
Like, legitimately how has this happened #pdiddy
Aside from ya know, money buys everything in 'Murica.
SEAN COMBS SENTENCED TO OVER 4 YEARS ON PROSTITUTION CHARGES
October 3, 2025 at 8:50 PM
50 months? How the hell is that a "significant sentence ... in order to be a deterrence, and to send a message." - that's nothing.
Like, legitimately how has this happened #pdiddy
Aside from ya know, money buys everything in 'Murica.
Like, legitimately how has this happened #pdiddy
Aside from ya know, money buys everything in 'Murica.
Also for those wanting to avoid having to ID on platforms, grab a VPN via a cashback site. I paid about £20 for 5 years access to Private Internet Access.
Topcashback are offering 105% on nordvpn subscriptions currently.
Topcashback are offering 105% on nordvpn subscriptions currently.
Petition: Repeal the Online Safety Act
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
Was hoping this would have been spiked before it made its way into implementation. Disappointed to see the only party against it is reform (based on very different motivations though).
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
Was hoping this would have been spiked before it made its way into implementation. Disappointed to see the only party against it is reform (based on very different motivations though).
Petition: Repeal the Online Safety Act
We want the Government to repeal the Online Safety act.
petition.parliament.uk
July 26, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Also for those wanting to avoid having to ID on platforms, grab a VPN via a cashback site. I paid about £20 for 5 years access to Private Internet Access.
Topcashback are offering 105% on nordvpn subscriptions currently.
Topcashback are offering 105% on nordvpn subscriptions currently.
Petition: Repeal the Online Safety Act
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
Was hoping this would have been spiked before it made its way into implementation. Disappointed to see the only party against it is reform (based on very different motivations though).
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
Was hoping this would have been spiked before it made its way into implementation. Disappointed to see the only party against it is reform (based on very different motivations though).
Petition: Repeal the Online Safety Act
We want the Government to repeal the Online Safety act.
petition.parliament.uk
July 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Petition: Repeal the Online Safety Act
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
Was hoping this would have been spiked before it made its way into implementation. Disappointed to see the only party against it is reform (based on very different motivations though).
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
Was hoping this would have been spiked before it made its way into implementation. Disappointed to see the only party against it is reform (based on very different motivations though).
Reposted by Andy Charlwood
Meanwhile if I want to make even the smallest tweak to the #NHS I'm instantly handed impact assessment paperwork.
Ministers admit failing to assess impact of thousands of NHS job cuts in England www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Ministers admit failing to assess impact of thousands of NHS job cuts in England
Exclusive: Failure to assess impact of axing thousands of NHS managers described by critics as reckless
www.theguardian.com
May 8, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Meanwhile if I want to make even the smallest tweak to the #NHS I'm instantly handed impact assessment paperwork.
Reposted by Andy Charlwood
This isn't getting enough attention: policyskeptic.blogspot.com/2025/05/a-wa... ...
A&E waits might be the biggest cause of avoidable death in England
New data from the ONS on their analysis of mortality and A&E waits has enabled new, better calculations on the magnitude of excess deaths ...
policyskeptic.blogspot.com
May 9, 2025 at 4:52 PM
This isn't getting enough attention: policyskeptic.blogspot.com/2025/05/a-wa... ...
Reposted by Andy Charlwood
The Guardian (and the IoG report) are wrong on what patients want from their GPs.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Guardian view on GPs: the importance of being face to face | Editorial
Editorial: Relationships matter to people, and public services must be designed with this in mind
www.theguardian.com
April 28, 2025 at 8:56 AM
The Guardian (and the IoG report) are wrong on what patients want from their GPs.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
...
Whenever I think about the model ICB structure being worked up centrally, this is all I can picture. #pharmsky #NHS
a man in a suit and tie stands in front of a sign that says the work is mysterious
ALT: a man in a suit and tie stands in front of a sign that says the work is mysterious
media.tenor.com
April 14, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Reposted by Andy Charlwood
Reducing duplication between NHS E and DHSC has been a main plank of the rationale for NHSE's abolition and 50% cuts to the centre. But how much duplication is there?
April 9, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Reducing duplication between NHS E and DHSC has been a main plank of the rationale for NHSE's abolition and 50% cuts to the centre. But how much duplication is there?
After seeing FiveThirtyEights implementation of this idea (thank you @andrew.heiss.phd for sharing), I've been working on a medicine themed p-hacking simulator called Placebo playground: medicines.charlwood.xyz#phacking
#pharmsky #healtheconomics #medsky #pharmacy
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#pharmsky #healtheconomics #medsky #pharmacy
1/3 🧵
April 3, 2025 at 7:36 PM
After seeing FiveThirtyEights implementation of this idea (thank you @andrew.heiss.phd for sharing), I've been working on a medicine themed p-hacking simulator called Placebo playground: medicines.charlwood.xyz#phacking
#pharmsky #healtheconomics #medsky #pharmacy
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#pharmsky #healtheconomics #medsky #pharmacy
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Reposted by Andy Charlwood
A seriously niche post here for PCN and general practice folk confused by "adjusted list" sizes.
Part 1: the background and workings. Start here, or skip to part 2 if you just want to see numbers.
Two documents here:
Part 1: the background and workings. Start here, or skip to part 2 if you just want to see numbers.
Two documents here:
April 3, 2025 at 9:25 AM
A seriously niche post here for PCN and general practice folk confused by "adjusted list" sizes.
Part 1: the background and workings. Start here, or skip to part 2 if you just want to see numbers.
Two documents here:
Part 1: the background and workings. Start here, or skip to part 2 if you just want to see numbers.
Two documents here:
Reposted by Andy Charlwood
If every single Bluesky user's profile doesn't include "Currently clean on OPSEC" by the end of today I don't know what this platform is for at all.
March 26, 2025 at 1:02 PM
If every single Bluesky user's profile doesn't include "Currently clean on OPSEC" by the end of today I don't know what this platform is for at all.
Not sure what's better in this post:
1. The really interesting data
2. 40 year old men being described as middle aged.
1. The really interesting data
2. 40 year old men being described as middle aged.
Good news from the British Election Study: there's no sign of the reported uptick in sexism among young British men
Bad news: what's going on with middle aged men?
Bad news: what's going on with middle aged men?
March 21, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Not sure what's better in this post:
1. The really interesting data
2. 40 year old men being described as middle aged.
1. The really interesting data
2. 40 year old men being described as middle aged.
This is absolutely brilliant!
I’ve long used FiveThirtyEight’s interactive “Hack Your Way To Scientific Glory” to illustrate the idea of p-hacking when I teach statistics. But ABC/Disney killed the site earlier this month :(
So I made my own with #rstats and Observable and #QuartoPub ! stats.andrewheiss.com/hack-your-way/
So I made my own with #rstats and Observable and #QuartoPub ! stats.andrewheiss.com/hack-your-way/
March 21, 2025 at 8:44 AM
This is absolutely brilliant!
Reposted by Andy Charlwood
Today is a planned day off. Burning residual leave.
I seem to have more tasks allocated today than if I’d been doing a full day at work.
I should have just told my wife I was at work and sat playing computer games all day…
I seem to have more tasks allocated today than if I’d been doing a full day at work.
I should have just told my wife I was at work and sat playing computer games all day…
March 21, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Today is a planned day off. Burning residual leave.
I seem to have more tasks allocated today than if I’d been doing a full day at work.
I should have just told my wife I was at work and sat playing computer games all day…
I seem to have more tasks allocated today than if I’d been doing a full day at work.
I should have just told my wife I was at work and sat playing computer games all day…
Reposted by Andy Charlwood
How firm is the hold of antivax beliefs?
From the parents of the 6 year old unvaccinated child who died of measles:
“Don’t do the shots,” the girl’s mother said. Measles, she added, is “not as bad as they’re making it out to be.” She noted that her four other children all recovered…
From the parents of the 6 year old unvaccinated child who died of measles:
“Don’t do the shots,” the girl’s mother said. Measles, she added, is “not as bad as they’re making it out to be.” She noted that her four other children all recovered…
How the anti-vaccine movement weaponized a 6-year-old’s measles death
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
How the anti-vaccine movement weaponized a 6-year-old’s measles death
Anti-vaccine influencers see the child’s death as proof — not of the danger of measles, but of their own debunked theories.
www.nbcnews.com
March 20, 2025 at 10:18 AM
How firm is the hold of antivax beliefs?
From the parents of the 6 year old unvaccinated child who died of measles:
“Don’t do the shots,” the girl’s mother said. Measles, she added, is “not as bad as they’re making it out to be.” She noted that her four other children all recovered…
From the parents of the 6 year old unvaccinated child who died of measles:
“Don’t do the shots,” the girl’s mother said. Measles, she added, is “not as bad as they’re making it out to be.” She noted that her four other children all recovered…
Reposted by Andy Charlwood
Everyone loved Big Mango funding dodgy studies so much that I wrote about it.
open.substack.com/pub/gidmk/p/...
open.substack.com/pub/gidmk/p/...
Mangoes Can't Cure Diabetes
The latest in a string of research funded by Big Food
open.substack.com
March 20, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Everyone loved Big Mango funding dodgy studies so much that I wrote about it.
open.substack.com/pub/gidmk/p/...
open.substack.com/pub/gidmk/p/...
Reposted by Andy Charlwood
OK, every year I try to explain to my students how LLMs work, and every year I have to do a big trawl for good resources and activities. Here's this year's haul of *introductory* materials. (In-class activities + visualizations, not so much readings.)
March 6, 2025 at 6:42 PM
OK, every year I try to explain to my students how LLMs work, and every year I have to do a big trawl for good resources and activities. Here's this year's haul of *introductory* materials. (In-class activities + visualizations, not so much readings.)
I am absolutely terrible at sticking to 300 characters. I must admit I miss the long text feature of the other place...
March 19, 2025 at 7:58 PM
I am absolutely terrible at sticking to 300 characters. I must admit I miss the long text feature of the other place...
Reposted by Andy Charlwood
I have a big worry that the NHS 10-year plan is trying to derive the strategy from consensus views of the solutions.
It should be driving the solutions from robust analysis of the problem and trying to get a consensus around them...
It should be driving the solutions from robust analysis of the problem and trying to get a consensus around them...
March 19, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I have a big worry that the NHS 10-year plan is trying to derive the strategy from consensus views of the solutions.
It should be driving the solutions from robust analysis of the problem and trying to get a consensus around them...
It should be driving the solutions from robust analysis of the problem and trying to get a consensus around them...
Reposted by Andy Charlwood
Every time I find one of these, I laugh harder.
Today's find - headlines saying that mangoes can improve diabetes. The study was funded by BIG MANGO.
Wonderful stuff. Better than fiction.
Today's find - headlines saying that mangoes can improve diabetes. The study was funded by BIG MANGO.
Wonderful stuff. Better than fiction.
March 17, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Every time I find one of these, I laugh harder.
Today's find - headlines saying that mangoes can improve diabetes. The study was funded by BIG MANGO.
Wonderful stuff. Better than fiction.
Today's find - headlines saying that mangoes can improve diabetes. The study was funded by BIG MANGO.
Wonderful stuff. Better than fiction.
After reading this post, I felt I should make my first post...
...so i'm sharing a little toy web app/game i've put together to help people understand ARR/RRR/NNT (apologies to pharma colleagues for the bad pharma inspired game).
medicines.charlwood.xyz
Adding some QALY bits on the next update...
...so i'm sharing a little toy web app/game i've put together to help people understand ARR/RRR/NNT (apologies to pharma colleagues for the bad pharma inspired game).
medicines.charlwood.xyz
Adding some QALY bits on the next update...
March 19, 2025 at 12:18 AM
After reading this post, I felt I should make my first post...
...so i'm sharing a little toy web app/game i've put together to help people understand ARR/RRR/NNT (apologies to pharma colleagues for the bad pharma inspired game).
medicines.charlwood.xyz
Adding some QALY bits on the next update...
...so i'm sharing a little toy web app/game i've put together to help people understand ARR/RRR/NNT (apologies to pharma colleagues for the bad pharma inspired game).
medicines.charlwood.xyz
Adding some QALY bits on the next update...