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Dr Jess Butler

Dr Jess Butler
Dr Jess Butler
Dr Jess Butler

Honorary Senior Research Fellow

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Biography

I’m the Lead Data Scientist at NHS Grampian and a Senior Research Fellow at the 51cg. 

Networked Data Lab

I run the 51cg and NHS Grampian’s . This is a seven-year, million-pound project working to reduce health inequalities.

My team’s specialty is working with big, messy, high-security health and social care data. Our focus is creating useful analysis for policy makers and care providers.

Get in touch if you're interested in an academic + NHS collaboration! We're always looking for partners in improving care.

Who Gets Care First?

We have a new – people who live in the most deprived areas wait longer for treatment and people from Black or Asian ethnic backgrounds tended to wait longer than white patients.

Prevention vs Recovery

We recently published on . We found that pre-COVID, community medical centres were used primarily for preventative care, but they are now mostly used for patients’ recovery after a hospitalisation.

Children's Mental Health Needs

Read our article on mental healthcare inequalities – we show that . We also found that by social workers used five times more mental healthcare.

Research Culture

I’m a huge advocate for open science and good research culture. Scientists should be (but aren’t!) rewarded for doing rigorous science. I gave evidence about this to the . You can also watch a symposium I hosted:

 

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