Surrey Informatics Summer School 2012
Thursday 23 February 2012
How to use routine health data for quality improvement and research
Venue: University of Surrey
Price: Full Fee: £1,500, Post Graduate Fee: £750
Dates: 9 -14 July 2012
Who is this for?
People wishing to carry out quality improvement, service evaluation or research using routine data
- Researchers: PhD, potential PhD students or researchers using routine health data
- Leaders and managers of health care organisations wanting to improve their use of health data
- Medical records staff looking to extend their skills
- Public health trainees and specialists
- Data analysts: In health care providers or commissioners - Social sciences and social care students wishing to work with health data
- International delegates are especially welcome - although we will use UK health data for analysis we will include commonly used international systems.
Learning outcomes
Practical knowledge of how to sort, clean process and describe health data;
Development of statistical analysis skills and introducing modelling and simulations.
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Bookings and enquiries
Please contact fbelevents@surrey.ac.uk.
More information
The Summer School will be taught by leading informatics academics and practitioners with International reputations, including Professor Simon de Lusignan, Prof Simon Jones, Dr Tom Chan and Dr John Williams.
Bursaries are available, please enquire for more details.
Keynote presentation
Professor Matthew Swindells
Use of multi-system data in real time to ensure the quality of care
Thursday 12th July, 7:00pm
How SEPSIS brings together data from different systems to provide information about the risk of septic shock.
Guest speaker
Dr Jamie Tratalos
Using Social Care Data and Problems linking it to other data types
Tuesday 10th July
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