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Strategy Unit Podcast
The SU Podcast is a monthly digest of our current work hearing from our multidisciplinary team.
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Have cuts to public spending on social care for older people led to more emergency hospital admissions?
Cuts to council social care budgets are often cited as a cause of pressure on NHS urgent and emergency care services. Much of the evidence supporting this link, however, is anecdotal. We set out to try and quantify the effect of cuts to social care on older people’s use of emergency healthcare services, and our research has just been published in BMJ Open.
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Let’s face the music and (not) dance
David Frith leads our strategy consultancy work with NHS and third sector organisations.
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New Perspectives on the Perennial Problem of Urgent Care
Waiting times in A&E are never far from the headlines. It threatens to become the defining healthcare performance issue of our time
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Scenario planning – an antidote to the false certainties of forecasts and grand plans
The resurgence of uncertainty
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Artificial Intelligence and the NHS
This is a note of an interview with Matt Fenech of Future Advocacy
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Completing the Clinical Assurance Process quickly and thoroughly - Clinical Assurance Evidence Framework published
The Five Year Forward View set out an ambitious vision for the future of the NHS, which aims to deliver improved health, patient care and efficiency.