The Midlands Decision Support Network (MDSN) brings together the Decision Support Units of integrated care systems across the Midlands, to help them make high-quality strategic decisions. It is hosted by the Strategy Unit, which also runs the network’s Analyst Network Huddles and a training and development programme for analysts and leaders.
In 2022 and 2023, recordings of many of the network’s training courses were published on YouTube. Each course was taught live over several sessions, often two to five hours long, and the recordings can be followed at your own pace. The courses include:
- Population health management - a series covering an introduction to population health management (PHM), R and statistics for PHM, population segmentation, risk prediction and stratification, impactibility and causal inference, and evaluation
- Health economics and evaluation - led by the Health Economics Unit, covering the foundations of health economics, evaluating service change, critical appraisal of economic evaluations, decision modelling and equity in healthcare
- Time-series forecasting and decision-making - a three-session course, recorded twice
- Machine learning - the first two sessions of a five-session course, covering an introduction to machine learning and data preparation and feature engineering
- Theory of constraints for patient flow - a one-day course led by Alex Knight
- Introduction to R Markdown - a two-part course
- Leadership development for analysts - a session for the line managers of analysts on the leadership course
Some series are incomplete - for example, the second population health management session and the last three machine learning sessions aren’t in the playlist.
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| Session | Course | Year | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| HE-1:Health Economics Foundations, 25/10/22 | Health economics and evaluation | 2022 | Economics and Evaluation: Health Economics Foundations (HE 1) 25th October 2022 Agenda Rationale: why health economics? Health budgets versus spending Cost and benefit types Perspective: which costs and benefits are relevant? Introduction to types of health economic studies Led by: Anna Buylova,… |
| HE - 2 : Evaluating Service Change and Transformation Programmes - 03/11/22 | Health economics and evaluation | 2022 | Economics and Evaluation: Economic Evaluations of Service Change and Transformation Programmes HE-2 3rd November 2022 Agenda A framework for carrying out economic evaluations - Identifying purpose of evaluation and setting clear objectives - Understanding how the service or change achieves expected… |
| HE - 3: Critical Appraisal of Published Economic Evaluations - 10/11/22 | Health economics and evaluation | 2022 | Economics and Evaluation: Critical Appraisal of Published Economic Evaluations HE-3 10th November 2022 Agenda Critically appraising data - Rationale: does the data fit the objective of the study? - Different types of data - Study targets (e.g. patient/proxy, stakeholder/expert) - Quantitative… |
| HE - 4: Decision Modelling for Health Economic Evaluation - 17/11/22 | Health economics and evaluation | 2022 | Economics and Evaluation: Decision Modelling for Health Economic Evaluation HE-4 17th November 2022 Agenda - Understand what a model is and rationale for using models in economic evaluations - Interpret and appraise a Markov model for economic evaluation Led by Anna Buylova, The Health Economics… |
| HE-5: Understanding Equity in Healthcare - 24/11/22 | Health economics and evaluation | 2022 | Economics and Evaluation: Understanding Equity in Healthcare HE-5 24th November 2022 In this virtual session Lisa Cummins, lead health economist at the Health Economics Unit, will lead attendees through a two-hour interactive session. Agenda Interaction between need, demand, supply and access to… |
| MDSN Training: Introduction to RMArkdown - Part 2 (19/10/22) | Introduction to R Markdown | 2022 | Day 2 of the MDSN Training: ntroduction to RMArkdown Wednesday 19th October 2022 With Zoë Turner |
| MDSN Training: Introduction to RMarkdown - Part 1 (18/10/22) | Introduction to R Markdown | 2022 | Introduction to RMarkdown - Day 1 Tuesday 18th October 2022 With Zoë Turner |
| Leadership Development for Analysts LINE MANAGER session 021122 | Leadership development for analysts | 2022 | |
| MDSN Training: Machine Learning (1/5) - 12/12/22 | Machine learning | 2022 | Session 1: Introduction to Machine Learning |
| MDSN Training: Machine Learning - Session 2/5 (09/01/23) | Machine learning | 2023 | Session 2: Data Preparation and Feature Engineering |
| PHM 1 - MDSN Training : Introduction to PHM | Population health management | 2022 | Topics covered What do we mean by PHM? Why is PHM important? How is it different? What is the PHM cycle? What are the key methods and tools used in PHM Led by: Andi Orlowski, David Sgobati and Sophie Hodges, the Health Economics Unit |
| PHM 3 - MDSN Training : Introduction to R for PHM | Population health management | 2022 | Agenda How can we write and run R code? What basic functions are most useful? Which data structures and tools are more likely to be relevant to population health management? Led by: David Sgobati, Joe Lillington and Santosh Kumar, Health Economics Unit |
| PHM 4 - MDSN Training: Introduction to Statistics for PHM - 27/09/22 | Population health management | 2022 | PHM 4 - MDSN Training: Introduction to Statistics for PHM - 27/09/22 Agenda What statistical metrics can we use? What is statistical testing and how can it be implemented in R? How can statistics be useful in population health modelling? Led by: David Sgorbati, Santosh Kumar and Joe Lillington, The… |
| PHM - 5: Understanding population segmentation for your local population 04/10/22 | Population health management | 2022 | Population Health Management: Understanding Population Segmentation for Your Local Population PHM-5 4th October 2022 Agenda: What is population segmentation? Why segment? Methods of segmentation How are these techniques used in practice? Group segmentation exercise and discussion Led by: Andi… |
| PHM - 6 Doing population segmentation for your local population 12/10/22 | Population health management | 2022 | Population Health Management: Doing population segmentation for your local population PHM - 6 12th October 2022 Agenda: What is segmentation? What are three standard techniques for segmentation? How are these techniques different in nature? Led by: Andi Orlowski, Joe Lillington, Sophie Hodges and… |
| PHM 7: Understanding risk prediction and stratification for your local population, 18/10/22 | Population health management | 2022 | Population Health Management: Understanding risk prediction and stratification for your local population PHM-7 18th October 2022 Agenda What is risk stratification? Why is it useful? What is the difference between segmentation and risk stratification? Methods of risk stratification How are these… |
| PHM 8: Doing Risk Prediction and Stratification for Your Local Population, 26/10/22 | Population health management | 2022 | Population Health Management: Doing Risk Prediction and Stratification for Your Local Population PHM-8 26th October 2022 Agenda How do you formulate a risk prediction/stratification modelling problem? How is the modelling typically implemented and validated? What are good practices in the… |
| PHM - 9: Understanding Impactibility for your local population (Part 1) - 01/11/22 | Population health management | 2022 | Population Health Management: Understanding Impactibility for Your Local Population PHM-9 1st November 2022 Agenda What is impactibility? How impactibility is used to predict those who will be most responsive to care Overview of impactibility models How are these techniques used in practice?… |
| PHM - 9: Understanding Impactibility for your local population (Part 2) - 01/11/22 | Population health management | 2022 | Population Health Management: Understanding Impactibility for Your Local Population PHM-9 1st November 2022 Agenda What is impactibility? How impactibility is used to predict those who will be most responsive to care Overview of impactibility models How are these techniques used in practice?… |
| PHM - 10: Doing causal inference for impactibility assessments for your local population (08/11/22) | Population health management | 2022 | Population Health Management: Doing Causal Inference for Impactibility Assessments for Your Local Population PHM-10 8th November 2022 Agenda Why do we need causal inference? What can causal inference tell us? What is the difference between association, correlation and causation? Which techniques… |
| PHM - 11: Closing the PHM cycle - An introduction to Evaluation (15/11/22) | Population health management | 2022 | Population Health Management: Closing the PHM cycle - An introduction to Evaluation PHM-11 15th November 2022 Topics Covered • Learning Health Systems – an introduction to evaluating PHM interventions and learning from them |
| MDSN: Theory of Constraints for Patient Flow (part 1) Introduction - 11/10/22 | Theory of constraints for patient flow | 2022 | Led by Alex Knight Introduction to the course. Please see Part 2 for the full recording. |
| MDSN Training: Theory of Constraints for Patient Flow (part 2) - 11/10/22 | Theory of constraints for patient flow | 2022 | Led by Alex Knight |
| MDSN Training: Time-series forecasting and decision-making - Session 3 (22/06/22) | Time-series forecasting | 2022 | |
| MDSN Training: Time-series forecasting and decision-making - Session 1 (08/06/22) | Time-series forecasting | 2022 | |
| MDSN Training: Time-series forecasting and decision-making - Session 2 (15/06/22) | Time-series forecasting | 2022 | |
| MDSN Training: Time-series forecasting and decision-making - Session 1, 22/07/22 | Time-series forecasting | 2022 | |
| MDSN: Time-series Forecasting - July 2022, Session 2 | Time-series forecasting | 2022 | |
| Time series Forecasting - Session 3 -26/08/22 | Time-series forecasting | 2022 |
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