BBC Radio 4 – Eddie Mair program with interviews, context and analysis Here the link to the BBC website program
News and Reports
Festival of Evidence Reports now to download
Brailsford S & Klein JH (2015) The value of simulation and modelling in healthcare – a review of the evidence and some possible ways forward. Cumberland Initiative publication, 56 pages. This is an academic treatment of the event and the evidence raised. The Value Report of the Festival of Evidence Modelling healthcare scenarios: what we…
Terry Young’s BBC Scotland interview
Opening of the Cumberland Institute
You are invited to the opening of The Cumberland Institute Location Cumberland Institute, 163 Bestobell Road, Slough SL1 4SZ Date/Time Monday 6th July 2015, from 15.00 – 19.00 Care services need new ways to address their many challenges holistically and at scale. Simulation modelling, serious gaming and other Operational Research methods are viable and attractive…
Virtual Festival of Evidence
What I have learned from 10 years of trying to improve quality and reduce cost in the NHS LISTEN WATCH coming soon… MORE Dr. Steven Allder | Taunton Hospital Whole systems thinking for complexity and fragility: challenges and guidance LISTEN WATCH coming soon… MORE Prof. Carol Jagger | University of Newcastle Major challenges in hospital…
Festival of Evidence 2014 — The Podcast
Here you can hear the podcast from The Festival of Evidence 2014
Chair of Parliamentary Health Select Committee tells Cumberland Initiative of the importance of modelling to NHS decision-making
Stephen Dorrell, Chair of the Parliamentary Health Select Committee and formerly Secretary of State for Health, has expressed a strong interest in greater use of models for designing healthcare services. Mr Dorrell was speaking during a meeting he hosted with a Cumberland Initiative team at his Westminster office.
Health professionals use Cumberland to test drive ways to manage A + E crisis
The Cumberland Initiative launched its national centre in May with a series of events and facilities focussed on helping colleagues tackle the crisis in A + E and unscheduled care. They joined key experts to share latest thinking plus modelling and simulation technology, allowing them think the unthinkable, trial the untried, and achieve better solutions…
Planning mental health services using simulation and modelling
Modelling offers huge opportunities for the planning of mental health services.
Don’t walk out on the Walk-In Centre
At my age, it always seems tempting fate to say that you enjoy good health, because you feel that you’re bound to get diagnosed with something awful the following week.