tl;dr - in the last financial year NHS England spent £21,170.37 on 866 homeopathic items. In the last calendar year (2020) it was £28,597.58 on 1,004 items.
For the latest figures there are two files as NHS BSA has made a change to their system - there's now a calendar year version and a financial year version.
NHS Homeopathy Spend - England 2020-2021 - document 1 of 2 (summary Doc)
NHS Homeopathy Spend - England 2020-2021 - document 2 of 2 (summary Sheet)
I'm a bit late with this post (usually publish these annually in April) but I have been diligently and enthusiastically collecting film listings of open air screenings taking place in London and adding them to this Google Sheet: http://bit.ly/OpenAirCinemaLondon2021
If you know of one I've missed please let me know.
As of 20 June 2021 there are over 400 films still to come, several free screenings and 220 already done. There are over 200 unique films being screened and some sing-alongs of Grease, Bohemian Rhapsody and The Greatest Showman. There are a few drive-in screenings too (these increased in 2020 in response to the Covid pandemic).
1. Advice for film-goers / things to bring
2. List of film screenings
This list is as accurate as I can make it but there will always be smaller events that are advertised locally that I may not hear about. Grateful for any tip-offs :)
1. Version for mobile phones (scroll up/down or left/right)
2. Wider version for desktop / web (scroll up/down or left/right)
The original embedded sheet was a bit cramped. The embed code didn't include anything for height and width that would let me improve this but I found out where to add it from this post.
3. Organisations screening films in London in 2021
(some may be screening in other cities too)
Note that Somerset House is not hosting an open air film festival in 2021.
TL;DR: FREE seminar tomorrow from 14:00 BST on "intelligent medical decision support systems and the underlying technology" with a bit of chat at 4.30pm about outreach which may be of interest for science communicators / public engagement with science folk.
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Tomorrow there's an afternoon seminar to talk about, and to close, the EPSRC-funded Pambayesian project which has recently ended. The project looked at ways of helping doctors and patients make treatment decisions about particular health conditions (the examples under investigation included diabetes in pregnancy (aka gestational diabetes) and rhematoid arthritis) using computer science (specifically Bayesian Networks) to 'weigh' different pieces of ('risk') information. As you can see from the agenda below Bayesian Networks can be used in all sorts of health-decision-making scenarios.
I was involved in helping to produce an issue of our computing magazine for schools (CS4FN, Computer Science For Fun) which talked about Smart Health and included several articles on the Pambayesian project. I wrote a couple of articles myself. It was rather nice to be able to write about diabetes again, as in a previous life I was one of the Science Information Officers at Diabetes UK and wrote nothing but stuff about diabetes back then :-)
My boss Prof Paul Curzon will be speaking about outreach at 4.30pm and you can read the Pambayesian issue of CS4FN as a PDF here (free print copies are already on their way to subscribing UK schools, if you're a teacher please use the purple form here to sign up or invite your child's teacher to sign up). You can also explore the magazine's articles individually on the CS4FN blog.
When: Tuesday, June 8, 2021, 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Where: Zoom
The PAMBAYESIAN (PAtient Managed decision-support using Bayesian networks) is an EPSRC funded project to develop a new generation of intelligent medical decision support systems to help both patients suffering chronic conditions and clinicians treating them.
The project ends on 30 June 2021 and there will be a final project open Seminar that will take place on Zoom on 8th of June 2021 from 14:00 to 17:00.
You can join the seminar using the following link: https://qmul-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/85147764196
The event will include presentations on the development of intelligent medical decision support systems and the underlying technology. There will be time for discussion of both the technical issues and future exploitation.
Agenda
2.00-2.10: Prof Norman Fenton: Introduction and overview of the PAMBAYESIAN project
2.10-2.20 Dr William Marsh: Overview of the Bayesian Network (BN) clinical models
2.20 – 3.10 PAMBAYESIAN rheumatoid arthritis application
2.20-2.30 Dr Amy MacBrayne: The clinical perspective
2.30-2.40 Dr Hamit Soyel: User interaction
2.40 –2.50 Ali Fahmi: The BN model
2.50- 3.00 Chris Robson (Living With): Integrating the model into a commercial platform
3.00-3.10 Discussion
3.20- 3.50 PAMBAYESIAN diabetes in pregnancy application
3.20-3.30 Prof Graham Hitman: The clinical perspective
3.30-3.40 Mariana Raniere Neves: The BN model
3.40-3.50 Discussion
3.50 – 4.10 Extensions of PAMBAYESIAN
3.50-4.00 Dr Scott McLachlan: The caremap approach
4.00-4.10 Morghan Hartmann: PAMBAYESIAN additional cases studies - Multiple Sclerosis and Pelvic Floor Syndrome
4.10-4.30 PAMBAYESIAN BN technology
4.10-4.20 Dr Maggie Wang: The dynamic BN modelling challenge
4.20-4.30 Dr Eugene Dementiev: The BN deployment challenge
4.30-4.40 Prof Paul Curzon: PAMBAYESIAN impact and outreach
4.40-5.00 Discussion
More details on PAMBAYESIAN: https://pambayesian.org/