Oh good, I'm glad it got through in the end. Yes I'm very torn about starting again elsewhere, I'm really hoping we can nudge them into action 🤞

Hi, I've just discovered this post in a desperate attempt to figure out what is going on at BMC HSR. I'm in a similar position - did your paper ever get published or did you pull it?

I will say, at least the next REF is a couple of years out. Good thing too, if this is the way things are going.

It's a seasonal paper, looking at winter pressures in ED, so when we submitted in February, we did so with a mind to having it published before winter. Sadly that is looking unlikely.

Good question. I guess we're conceptualising of them as general health measures to be adjusted for - but as they're heavily inter-related (but different) it's difficult to justify either sitting before the other on a causal pathway. Measures are in routine data so can't be further decomposed.