The Winton Centre was commissioned by NHS England to produce a set of decision support tools, designed to help patients make decisions about their treatment alongside their health professionals.

Working with design company Luna9, the Winton Centre team went through an iterative process, talking to patients, patient support groups, members of the public and clinicians on each topic, refining the …

We've just launched a new free e-learning course on our platform https://moodle.wintoncentre.uk. Designed for trainees or professionals at any career stage who are interested in communicating risks in a public health context, the course should take less than 2 hours to complete and ends with a certificate of completion.

It covers how to extract numbers from academic publications, how …

3 November 2021, 18:30 – 19:30

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre

The current pandemic has emphasised the key role that statistics play in understanding what is going on around us.  But how reliable are all these numbers?  How much should we trust what we hear and read?  I will look at the way that statistics can be used to try and …

Michael Blastland returns to nudge Sir David out of his own podcast hosting chair and turn the tables, to interview Sir David Spiegelhalter and Dr Anthony Masters on what they've learnt about communicating the risks from Covid-19 after a year of writing regular weekly newspaper columns on the topic (now turned into book form).

Listen here: https://riskytalk.libsyn.com

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