The Winton Centre are delighted to release two eLearning courses. In partnership with the Australian Commission and the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges we have produced courses on risk communication for primary care clinicians and for perioperative specailists such as surgeons and anaesthetists. The courses are freely available on our moodle site.

We have just launched our new front-end to the NHS Predict site for women who have had breast cancer surgery: http://www.predict.nhs.uk/ The site is used regularly 20,000 times per month worldwide by oncologists to help guide treatment options for individual women. However, our new front end is designed to help communicate this same information to the patients, so that doctors …

David's latest blog hit the home page of medium.com

In recent media coverage of studies reporting that coffee could be good for you, the Daily Telegraph reported that “Drinking a cup of coffee may add nine minutes per day to your life”, while ITV News used the images below. Read the full article here.

Headlines across the media that were resoundingly upbeat following publication of an article in the Lancet. Read the full article here.

Bad numbers in the news: how to spot them, and how to stop them

This was the subject of David's talk on June 13th at the University of Singapore.

Some say we live in a post-truth society abounding in fake news and alternative facts, with a declining trust in ‘experts’. Certainly the media are full of political and scientific claims …

The Winton Centre are delighted that Professor Theresa Marteau, a member of the Management Board of the Centre and Director of the Behaviour and Health Research Unit, has been appointed a Dame of the British Empire for her services to public health.

Journalism’s standards of statistical reporting have been notoriously low. But they are improving. And it seems they might now have become better at it than the scientists who produce the numbers…

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