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Hello, and welcome to another episode of Beyond the Ming.
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A very short episode today, just a little trailer for an event that we are holding in Co- Coventry on the, um, 5th of November.
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So I have with me Sam Riley.
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Hello, Sam
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Hello, nice to meet you
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So you say.
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Uh, thank you for joining us.
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Um, well, tell us a little bit about yourself, Sam.
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What are you going to talk about?
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Okay.
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So I'm Sam.
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I'm a data enthusiast.
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I spent most of my career working in the NHS, most recently at NHS England, where I led a program called the Making Data Count the clue's in the title.
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It was about helping people make their data count.
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But I've now set up Spuddling Solutions, so I'm working under my own steam
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brave.
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And so why Spuddling Solutions?
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Why did you choose that name?
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Ah, well, spuddling is one of the things that I'm gonna be talking about on the 5th.
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Um, shall I give away the description here of spuddling?
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I'm not sure that I can, James, really.
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All I'm gonna say is that spuddling is a bad thing.
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We don't want to be doing spuddling, and the way that the NHS used to look at data led to lots of spuddling and lots of wasted time.
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So I'm gonna be talking about that experience
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the NHS was doing wrong and how they're now doing it right
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Absolutely.
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what I've been teaching people about is using statistical process control that many of your colleagues will be familiar with, I'm sure.
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Um, I was able to get organizations across the NHS and people at all levels to start using SPC, whereas previously they were probably using a RAG report or something that was equally horrendous.
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So I think it's quite a success story.
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Now, if you look at board papers within the NHS, they're mainly SPC based, so I'm gonna come and talk about how that actually came to be It's gonna be a lot of fun.
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We might play a couple of games.
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It's gonna be a very interactive session, and I'm gonna give, give away my secrets in terms of how do you, change something that's very theoretical into something that, people are excited about
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and presumably you've done this with a whole host of frontline people as well.
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It's not just executives you've been talking to,
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So the whole gamut.
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So worked with many boards, across the health service in England, but equally, I think the final total while I was at NHS England was 56,000 people trained, and those would've been people further down the organization.
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They might have been clinical, they might have been non-clinical.
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Trained lots of analysts as well.
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So, I bet you're excited for the session now, aren't you?
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I have to admit, for my sins, I am.
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I am a Six Sigma Black Belt, but it's not the sort of thing you go bragging about.
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So I'm very interested to see how, um, to get 56,000 people excited about SPC,'cause I think I managed to achieve three in my entire career.
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So I look forward to hearing about it, and, uh, I look forward to seeing you on November the 5th in Coventry at Nettlehill.
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Thank you very much