COVID-19 pandemic and the NHS
29 April 2025
31 attendees
Description
A talk on learnings from the pandemic and NHS data, followed by a panel discussion.
Speakers and topics
NHS Data and the pandemic
Jenni Woods, Head of Health & Business Intelligence at NHS Tayside
Jenni explored Covid-19 data and reporting story from within NHS Tayside, including:
- What happened from 13th March 2020 to focus all data minds around Covid reporting and how we used our data input systems.
- The data and intelligence we needed to understand, capture and report on.
- The toolkits and techniques we used to track the impact of Covid within the hospitals, with a focus on patients, beds, predictions and data visualisation to deliver key messages to the masses.
Panel discussion
Jenni Woods, Head of Health & Business Intelligence at NHS Tayside
Jack Gilmore, Senior Developer @ NES | Technical lead @ Open Data Scotland
Lesley-Anne Kelly, Editor at the Press Associaton
A panel discussion and Q&A with an exploration into learnings from the COVID-19 pandemic, public sector data and the NHS.
Speaker bios
Jenni Woods
Jenni is Head of Health & Business Intelligence within NHS Tayside, and has worked in the NHS for over 20 years. She leads a team of information analysts and dashboard developers who use data to drive patient flow, performance and improvement throughout the hospitals. Jenni is a mum of 2 living in Perth, and really enjoys working with clinical and managerial teams to support an evidence-based and data-driven health board. She is passionate about working with others to design information products which support decision making, help gain better insight and improve outcomes.
Jack Gilmore
Jack Gilmore is a full stack software developer with experience of working in the public sector and academia in Scotland. He graduated with a BSc (Hons) in Computing Science and Spanish from the University of Stirling in 2019. As an advocate of free and open-source software, many of the projects he has worked on either consume or produce open data. Most recently, he has been involved as the co-founder of the Open Data Scotland project, working on
Lesley-Anne Kelly
Lesley-Anne Kelly is an international award winning data journalist.
She is currently the editor of the Press Associations local data journalism team but during the pandemic she was one of only a small handful of data journalists in Scotland trying to make sense of the ever-changing covid data landscape.
She is passionate about democratising data and making it more accessible through storytelling and data visualisation.