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  • https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9x8j5p0992o

    In response to their claims, the new health secretary launched an independent review led by Prof Appleby which analysed data from NHS England on suicides of patients at the Tavistock clinic, based on an audit at the trust.

    Covering the period between 2018-19 and 2023-24, he found there were 12 suicides - five in the three years leading up to 2020-21 and seven in the three years afterwards.

    "This is essentially no difference," Prof Appleby says in his report, "taking account of expected fluctuations in small numbers, and would not reach statistical significance."

    This is such a frustrating bit of reporting. If your data doesn't reach statistical significance, it doesn't mean you accept the null hypothesis, it means you don't have enough data to tell either way.

    (And this is before we even get into the deeper issue that by restricting the data to only those at the Tavistock center, which was already notorious for not having the needed capacity, means that you're almost certainly excluding the a large proportion of those who are most likely to be effected)

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