nhsx / nhs_time_of_travel

This GitHub repository and accompanying webpage contain the initial proof of concept and exploratory analysis for the design of a holistic and interactive mapping tool to support decision-making in health and social care.

Please see www.github.com/nhs-pycom/nhs_time_of_travel for the streamlit geospatial app.

Travel time to NHS organisations

Work in progress

This work was led by Mattia Ficarelli, Data Engineer, and Paul Carroll, Senior Data Scientist, as part of their roles with the Analytics Unit of the NHS Transformation Directorate.

Project Structure

This GitHub repository and accompanying webpage contain the initial proof of concept and exploratory analysis for the design of a holistic and interactive mapping tool to support decision-making in health and social care.

A mapping tool could support national and regional commissioning strategies by facilitating the placement of new services and the reconfiguration of existing ones. It could also contribute to the NHS agenda for tackling health inequalities by enabling evidence-based decision-making by providing insight on how the availability of health and social care services is influenced by sociodemographic factors.

Using open-source software and publicly accessible datasets we calculate the travel time, with different modes of transport, to varying NHS healthcare services in London, Cambridge and Lincolnshire. We highlight the challenges of estimating accurate travel times and possible approaches to overcome these.

OSMnx walkable urban network of central Cambridge

Built With

• Folium
• OSMnx
• NetworkX

Getting Started

Installation

Install the above software packages as per the following example: conda install -c conda-forge osmnx

To get a local copy up and running follow these simple steps.

To clone the repo:

git clone https://github.com/nhsx/nhs_time_of_travel.git

Datasets

The data sources are saved for your use in the data folder in the repo, or are widely available with links to the data within the workbooks.

Contributing

Contributions are what make the open source community such an amazing place to learn, inspire, and create. Any contributions you make are greatly appreciated.

1. Fork the Project
2. Create your Feature Branch (git checkout -b feature/AmazingFeature)
3. Commit your Changes (git commit -m 'Add some AmazingFeature')
4. Push to the Branch (git push origin feature/AmazingFeature)
5. Open a Pull Request

See CONTRIBUTING.md for detailed guidance.

License

Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.

nhs_time_of_travel's Issues

Flagging similar work using R in NHS Wales

Hello @mattia-ficarelli and @pauliecarroll, I don't if you'd be interested in some work I did Wales on trying to make travel-time-analysis more accessible.

The main product was a set of weekly-updating LSOA-to-LSOA matrices, covering driving and public transport for Wales and bordering regions, but this is built using tools in R that are more flexible. I gave a presentation at an NHS-R conference in November 2021 which gives a bit more detail on approach.

I note that this doesn't solve some of the more significant issues, like obtaining public per-way speed data (instead it falls back on UK-wide averages from 2017).

(Hope it's okay to communicate this as an 'issue'! Wasn't sure of a better approach.)

Missing links on contributing md

I think your contributing.md references a few broken links:

1. code of conduct that doesn't exist
2. broken link to GDS commit message style guide
3. CHANGELOG.md doesn't exist