Data analysis, modelling and management

Accurate analysis and management of data 

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the need for data analysis and support for remote working generated many requests for our experience and knowledge in data science.   

NPL helped the Royal College of General Practitioners Research and Surveillance Centre to produce their regular updates on communicable and respiratory diseases for Public Health England throughout 2020. We also worked with the Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust on supporting the remote working for as many staff as possible, not something that had been a priority before the pandemic.

NPL offered help to the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust by analysing different kinds of medical data. This included optimising hospital flow and the cancer diagnostic pathways, as well as understanding the cause and effect of thrombosis in COVID-19 patients though biomarker clustering. 

NPL was heavily involved in testing PPE, a process that often involved several testing iterations as designs were refined. Data science allowed certain tests to be simulated, such as field of view tests, so that the computer model could predict if a design would pass the test. This helped streamline the testing and gave confidence that the PPE would pass the tests.  

NPL also investigated:

• Using signal analysis of telephone calls to GPs or 111 to diagnose COVID-19 by analysing the acoustic signals of breathing and coughing
• Analysing the link between mortality or diagnosed COVID-19 cases with air quality data to understand the impact of pollution.

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