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Not just innovative thinking… Innovative doing…

February 23, 2012

Innovation and efficiency in the NHS We’ve all been there… You think you know something, the targets have been met, the numbers have crunched, the percentages all work… On paper everything is hunky dory but in reality, we haven’t a …

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Oil shortages: Improving emergency response rates

February 21, 2012

The last newsletter from  EnergyMarketPrice  is consistent with the warnings from economist Jeff Rubin [i] in telling us world oil demand will increase despite the weak economic environment [ii]. Today’s headline Iran ‘halts oil sales to France and Britain’ is …

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GPS analysis, the DfT and the National Travel Survey…

February 15, 2012

Recently the Department for Transport (DfT) completed a pilot study to see if GPS could be used in the methodology for the National Travel Survey. Their conclusion was that GPS technology would not be feasible. A sample of GPS tracks …

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Competition: It started with a GIS…

February 7, 2012

…and there’s a prize! Not just any prize either… A Celebration Gift Box from Betty’s! Maps don’t always start with ‘m’. These ones start with ‘ll’, ‘ch’, ‘st’… Can you identify which is which? The thinking behind this post and …

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The effects of increased salaries on carbon footprints and green attitudes…

February 2, 2012

A few years ago I performed some estimates of carbon footprints using the P²  People and Places geodemographic classification from Beacon Dodsworth. I used carbon footprint numbers from the Green Ration Book and combined these with data from the Target …

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