1. Funding success 1: HAVEN "Hospital Alerting Via Electronic Noticeboard" Looking at what other data in hospital information systems can be used to predict unanticipated ICU admission Collaborative with University of Oxford, Oxford Hospitals, Portsmouth Hospitals Funded by Wellcome Trust/Dept of Health, £1.8m (about £250k to UoP) Will start 3 rd August 2015 for 3 years One senior research associate to be recruited 1

2. Funding success 2: Missed care "Nurse staffing levels, missed vital signs observations and mortality in hospital wards: modelling the consequences and costs of variations in nurse staffing and skill mix. Retrospective observational study using routinely collected data" Comparing VitalPAC data with nurse rostering data in order to see if there is a link between staffing levels and care Collaborative with University of Southampton, University of York and Portsmouth Hospitals Funded by NIHR HS&DR programme, £550k (about £90k to UoP) Started 1 st June 2015 for 2 years One senior research associate to be recruited (possibly part-time) 2

3. Other on-going work Done much work on NEWS –comparing medicine with surgery –binary variants of NEWS –effectiveness of NEWS escalation criteria (3*) –effect of all versus random observations –comparing NEWS with other EWSs and MET systems Collaboration with Canada, Denmark and Ireland 3