The Warwickshire Observatory is now on Twitter!

You can now follow the Observatory on Twitter.  Our username is @WarksObs and you can either visit our feed here or, even better, follow us using the  button on the right.  We’ll use the account to publicise some of our work and engage with customers – please tell your Twitter friends!

Rumbi Takundwa joins NHS Warwickshire Public Health Intelligence Team as a Trainee Analyst

Rumbi Takundwa joined the Public Health Intelligence Team this week as a Trainee Analyst. She will be providing specialist public health intelligence input across NHS Warwickshire, Warwickshire County Council and partners.  This will include analytical expertise, statistical guidance and research advice to support health related commissioning and decision making. Areas of work will include GP practice and [...]

Helen Parker joins the Observatory as a Community Safety Partnership Analyst for Warwickshire

Helen Parker joined the Observatory this week as a Community Safety Partnership Analyst for Warwickshire. She will support the four Community Safety Partnerships by providing problem-solving analysis and using analytical techniques to identify trends and patterns in crime and disorder. Helen joins the team from Warwickshire Police where she has had varied work experience in [...]

July 2011 Newsletter

We have now released our second newsletter, providing an overview of some of the projects we are involved in and links to further details where they are available.  Warwickshire Observatory Newsletter – July 2011 We publish three newsletters per year alongside the regular updates we provide both on the blog and on our website (see our [...]

Winners of Young Local Authority of the Year Award! Another success for the Observatory!

Last week, three of the Partnership and Performance Unit (PPU), Emma Curtis, Kirsty Campbell and Kate McGrory (Warwickshire Observatory), along with Ben Cahill from Member Services entered this year’s Young Local Authority of the Year competition. They competed alongside 18 other teams from other Local Authorities. The initiative is part of the ‘Young UK and [...]

Observatory Managers Leading the Way!

Two managers within the Observatory team, Spencer Payne and Huw Davies, attended a Leadership Challenge event on the 10th February held by Warwickshire County Council (WCC). It was a full day event which saw officers from across the Council come together to look at a real life problem facing WCC and working in small groups [...]

New Public Health Intelligence Team now in place!

An exciting new venture between the Observatory and NHS Warwickshire has seen the formation of a new Public Health Intelligence Team.  Public Health Intelligence or epidemiology is the study of factors affecting the health and illness of populations, and serves as the foundation and logic of interventions made in the interest of public health and [...]

Gareth Wrench has left the building! (sort of)

Today is the end of an ‘era’ as Gareth is leaving the Research Team after 4 years as a Research Officer.  He’s not moving very far though - only just down the road to the Warwickshire PCT.  He’ll be taking on the role of Senior Public Health Analyst starting on Monday the 1 November.  He won’t be gone and forgotten though (how could we?!) [...]

Observatory Blog reaches 5,000 visits!

The Warwickshire Observatory Blog today received its 5,000th visitor.  This success demonstrates the appetite for regular updates on the work of the Observatory and information on what datasets, analysis and reports are being made available. This is the Blog of a research team, so you might expect a few facts and figures… the Blog has [...]

Three Observatory team members nominated for GEM Awards

Last week, three of the Observatory team members received nominations for GEM awards . The GEM awards are a Warwickshire County Council initiative which rewards and encourages individual and team excellence in a number of different categories. Dave Gardiner and Gareth Wrench were both nominated individually for the ‘Innovation’ award which awards those that have been [...]