The Strategy Unit
Leading research, analysis and change from within the NHS
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Strategies to reduce inequalities in access to planned hospital procedures
09/05/22Our new report guides Integrated Care Boards through the process of developing a credible strategy to reduce inequalities in access to planned hospital procedures.
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‘Might’ is right
08/06/22A good idea can be ruined by over-selling. The NHS has a tendency to adopt ideas and then move rapidly to wanting them to become certainties.
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Blog post
Urgent Community Response – What Works?
13/05/22The Strategy Unit, with our partners Ipsos, has been commissioned by NHS England and NHS Improvement (NHSEI) to provide a long-term national evaluation of the Urgent Community Resp...
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We saw them before they were famous: reflections on AphA’s away day
28/04/22In June 1976, the Sex Pistols played Manchester's Lesser Free Trade Hall.
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Appointing an ICS ‘Chief Analyst’
28/04/22The Strategy Unit has, over the last ten years, developed a way of working that has allowed us to become recognised as a leading anal
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Blog post
Bringing patient flow modelling into general practice
01/04/22With general practice appointments hitting the highest numbers on record (34.8 million in England alone in November 2021), careful organisation and planning for patient appointment...
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News
‘Developing your ICS Intelligence Functions’: A Free Webinar Series
30/03/22What is an ‘Intelligence Function’? What value can they add to decision making? How can they be configured and who needs to be involved? What lessons can be drawn from current prac...
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Publication
Autism evidence scan identifies knowledge gaps
29/03/22Diagnosing autism takes account of a person’s differences in social interaction and communication, sensory sensitivity, interests and b
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We don’t just need to hear ‘you are more affected’ - what’s the action?
23/03/22The experience of minority ethnic people symptomatic for COVID-19 in the first UK wave of the pandemic.
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Peter Spilsbury
Director of The Strategy Unit
Peter has worked in the NHS for nearly 40 years. In that time, he has held Director positions in provider, commissioning and strategic NHS…
Abeda Mulla
Managing Consultant
Abeda started her career in medical research. She gained a PhD from Imperial College London in Neuroendocrinology. She then moved on to medical…
Alison Turner
Head of Evidence and Knowledge Mobilisation
Alison brings over 25 years’ experience supporting evidence-informed decision making. She has contributed workshops and papers at a range of…
Andrew Jones
Senior Healthcare Analyst
Andrew has worked for the Strategy Unit since 2015, covering both research and education. His recent project work includes:
Analysing opportunities…
Andy Hood
Analytics Manager
Andy has an academic and practical background in public health, having worked in the NHS in analytical and intelligence roles for 17 years.
Whilst…
David Frith
Principal Consultant
David has worked in the NHS since 2008, including roles in commissioning, major programme management and strategic planning in the acute sector. He…
Deborah Mabbley
Business Manager
Deborah has 23 years’ experience within the NHS in business management, customer service and administration. She has excellent organisational and…
Fraser Battye
Principal Consultant
Fraser draws on over 20 years of experience and has worked on multiple areas of public policy. Before joining the NHS, he worked as a consultant in…
Jake Parsons
Head of Modelling and Analytics
Before joining the NHS, Jake worked as a senior performance analyst in a large social services department. He has also worked as an auditor and…
James de Lacy
Senior Consultant
James has worked in the NHS for almost 10 years and has considerable experience in strategic consultancy projects.
His recent Strategy Unit work…
Jon Cook
Coaching Consultant
Jon has over 25 years experience working for the NHS and has worked at all tiers in the NHS, gaining a national perspective whilst working for the…
Justine Wiltshire
Analytics Manager
Justine has over 20 years’ experience in healthcare analysis. In that time, she has worked across different parts of the NHS - acute providers and…
Karen Bradley
Head of Strategy and Change
Karen is a highly experienced leader of change providing strategic consultancy and complex improvement services. She has had an eclectic career,…
Lorna Crofts
Business Manager
Lorna has ten years’ experience working within the NHS. This has seen her work across commissioner, provider and regional/national organisations to…
Mahmoda Begum
Senior Consultant
Mahmoda has over 15 years’ experience working in the health and wellbeing sector. She has worked in community, commercial and public sector…
Mike Woodall
Analytics Manager
Mike has over 25 years’ experience in analytical roles across the health and care sector. He has worked on projects within commissioning, acute,…
Paul Seamer
Analytics Manager
Paul has many years’ experience of leading research and analytical projects across health, local government, and the wider public sector. Before…
Sharon Townsend
Business Manager
Sharon has over 15 years’ experience in the NHS. She has also worked for charities and the private sector. The majority of Sharon’s experience is in…
Shiona Aldridge
Senior Consultant
Shiona draws on over 10 years’ experience working in the NHS. Prior to this, she worked as a data analyst in the corporate sector, supporting an NHS…
Stacey Croft
Analytics Manager
Stacey started her career over twenty years ago, working as an analyst at the West Midlands Cancer Intelligence Unit. After completing a Master’s in…
Steven Wyatt
Head of Research and Policy
Steven has 20 years’ experience leading and managing analytical services in the health and social care sector. He has broad, practical experience of…
David Callaghan
Managing Consultant
David has a particular interest in issues around public health, social care and workforce development. He draws on 15 years’ experience in the…
Simon Bourne
Principal Consultant
Simon’s experience spans clinical medicine, academia, NHS commissioning and management consultancy. He is the programme director for the Midlands…
Lucy Hawkins
Managing Consultant
Lucy has a Master’s degree in Healthcare Leadership and worked for a specialist hospital before joining the Strategy Unit. The focus of her Master’s…
Richard Ward
Consultant
Richard has broad experience of evidence review and evaluation projects. This includes:
An evidence map on inequities in access to mental health…
Zaheera Teladia
Senior Consultant
Zaheera has an undergraduate degree in Social Sciences with Social Policy and a Master’s in Public Health. She has extensive experience of working on…
Mohammed Amin Mohammed
Principal Consultant
Over the last ten years Mohammed has delivered scores of highly rated courses on variation, systems thinking, improvement science and mortality…
Stewart Loughlin
Head of Business Management
With over 20 years working in the public and private sectors, Stewart has gained deep experience in education, care and technology. His previous…
Thomas Jemmett
Senior Healthcare Analyst
Tom has over a decade of experience working in analytical roles within the NHS – including in acute provider trusts in the West Midlands. He has…
Beatriz Rubio-Huete
Healthcare Analyst
Beatriz worked as a researcher in health economics at The University of Manchester prior to joining the Strategy Unit. She is currently on secondment…
Alexander Lawless
Healthcare Analyst
Alexander’s background is varied and wide ranging. He has worked as a hospital staff nurse and a local authority analyst. He also has a Master’s in…
Rachel Caswell
Senior Healthcare Analyst
Rachel has over 20 years’ analytical, project management and leadership experience in NHS and local government organisations. She has a master’s…
Paul Mason
Head of Evaluation
Paul has 23 years’ experience in applied research and evaluation spanning a career in universities and private sector consultancy before joining the…
Bethany Taylor
Consultant
Before joining the Strategy Unit, Bethany completed a Masters in Public Health. She also worked as a researcher for a medical education company. …
Ellie Moore
Consultant
Ellie draws on experience of working in clinical and evaluation roles within children and young people’s NHS mental health services, where she has…
Eleanor Jones
Consultant
Ellie has a background in population health, with a special interest in health inequalities and inequities in access to health and care services. She…
Jane Greenstock
Senior Consultant
Jane has over ten years’ experience of health and social-care research and evaluation, gained in the voluntary, commercial and public sectors.…
Freddie Finlay
Research Assistant
Prior to joining the Strategy Unit, Freddie worked for five years in an analytical role in the private sector. Since joining the Strategy Unit,…
Ozayr Mohammed
Healthcare Analyst
Ozayr’s recent work has involved exploring the effects of new housing developments on demand for primary care and developing this is into a ‘Shiny’…
Sarah Gilliland
Business Manager
With a strong background in business administration, Sarah has years of experience in client care, finance support, and performance management.…
Charlotte Henderson
Business Manager
Prior to joining the Strategy Unit, Charlotte worked for the NHS Quality Review Service. There she supported programmes of work to help services…
Patricia Lacey
Senior Consultant
Trish has worked within the health sector for 15 years as a qualified librarian and evidence specialist with a particular interest in public health…
Gareth Wrench
Programme Consultant
An economist by background with a Master’s in Public Health, Gareth has 20 years of experience working in analytical roles across local government,…
Romaana Kapadi
Research Assistant
Before joining The Strategy Unit, Romaana worked collaboratively with a range of stakeholders on numerous clinical research projects in both higher…
Lydia Hextell
Research Assistant
Prior to joining the Strategy Unit, Lydia worked primarily within the charity sector, as well as educational and healthcare settings, in varying…
Sheila Ali
Research Assistant
Before joining the Strategy Unit, Sheila worked as a research assistant in both the NHS and in
academic contexts, working with quantitative and…
Natasha Stephenson
Research Assistant
Before joining the Strategy Unit, Natasha completed a Master’s in Health Psychology and worked within third sector health services promoting…
Marya Mobeen
Research Assistant
Marya recently joined the Strategy Unit. Prior to joining, she completed a master’s degree in Health Psychology at Aston University. During this time…
Jon Cook
Coaching Consultant
Jon has over 25 years experience working for the NHS and has worked at all tiers in the NHS, gaining a national perspective whilst working for the…
James Sandy
Senior Consultant
James has worked extensively across local government, clinical commissioning, the voluntary sector, and professional bodies leading policy, research…
Kimberley Messam
Senior Consultant
My current experience within the Strategy Unit is limited. However, I have a wealth of experience from Local Authority and NHS experience. Having…
Jacqueline Grout
Senior Healthcare Analyst
Jacqueline has 10 years of experience working in analytical roles within the NHS primarily in an integrated care provider trust in Greater Manchester…
Sandhya Duggal
Senior Consultant
Sandhya is interested in Public Health, Adult Social Care and Integrated Care. Before joining the Strategy Unit, Sandhya completed her PhD in Public…
Sally Thompson
Senior Healthcare Analyst
Prior to joining the Strategy Unit, Sally provided analytical support to Health & Social Care Partnerships and GP clusters in Scotland. She has…
Craig Parylo
Senior Healthcare Analyst
Craig previously provided business information management for a Community and Mental Health Trust where he delivered insight into the quality of care…
Sarah Lucas
Healthcare Analyst
Sarah has a PhD in neuroscience and over 15 years’ experience in academic research. Prior to joining the Strategy Unit, she worked on a variety of ‘…
Fikriyudin Mufasir
Healthcare Analyst
Prior to joining the Strategy Unit, Fikriyudin provided data visualization and analytical support for an integrated fisheries commerce company. He…