Welcome to the home of the Health Service Modelling Associates (HSMA) programme on GitHub!
Our GitHub is where you can find all of our slides, code examples, and coding exercises. There are also standalone teaching resources like our Discrete Event Simulation Playground.
HSMA is a 15-month programme of training and mentoring for people working in health, social care and policing in England, covering a range of data science and operational research techniques. We take participants all the way from the basics up to Python through to using discrete event simulation, geographic optimization, machine learning, agent-based simulation, and much more. You can find out more about the programme on our website.
But don't fret if you're not able to apply formally to the course - you can follow along with everything here, and our Youtube Channel houses the the lectures that go with each of these repositories.
All of our training materials are made available Free and Open Source, with most of the content provided under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International [cc-by-nc-sa] License, meaning you are welcome to copy, share and adapt most of our materials - though it's worth checking the individual licence on the repositories.
HSMA has now run for several rounds - archived repositories relate to an earlier run of the programme, but are perfectly fine to refer to if there isn't an active repository covering the same topic!
HSMA is all about upskilling people to be able to undertake their own applied data science and operational modelling projects - below are just a handful of the projects our fabulous HSMAs have produced over the years!
| Project | Code Link | Video Link | App Link | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Web App for Reducing Travel Times to Treatment for Cardiac Patients in South East England | Repository | Video | App | Streamlit; Travel Times |
| A Discrete Event Simulation tool to model the bottlenecks in an acute medical unit pathway | Repository | Video | Streamlit; Discrete Event Simulation | |
| A tool to automatically generate health equity audits for Community Diagnostic Centres | Repository | Video | Automation | |
| A Service Planning Decision Support Tool to Tackle Inequalities & Minimise Carbon Output | Repository | Video | Automation; Machine Learning | |
| Using Discrete Event Simulation to explore the role of Patient Initiated Follow-Up and 'Digital Outpatients' in supporting the elective recovery | Repository | Video | Discrete Event Simulation | |
| Investigating factors impacting NHS workforce retention | Repository | Video | Automation; Data Cleaning; Regression; Plotly Dash | |
| An open source tool to model waiting lists for elective surgery | Repository | Video | App | Streamlit; Discrete Event Simulation |
You can find out more about our projects on Youtube for HSMA 3, HSMA 4 or HSMA 5, or read about them on our projects page.
HSMA is a programme that is conceived, developed, and is supported by the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration South West Peninsula (PenARC) and supported by funding from the NHS Digital Academy.