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Scaling Neighbourhood Health: what does it take?
A deep dive exploring how neighbourhood health can move from promising local innovation to consistent delivery at scale.
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Despair now accounts for one-sixth of all years of life lost
Deaths from drug misuse, alcohol use and suicide, often referred to as deaths of despair, are on the rise. New research, by the Strategy Unit and the Health Foundation, show how deaths rates vary by sex and socio-economic deprivation, and how these rates changed during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Using evidence effectively for strategic commissioning
A new series of videos to help commissioners find, interpret and apply evidence for better decisions.
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Tracking Hospital Admission Thresholds Within Emergency Departments: A Feasibility Study
This new analysis explores the concept of hospital admission thresholds and assesses the feasibility of tracking these thresholds within emergency departments.
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Emergency Departments worked better during the strikes. But why?
New research published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine explores why emergency departments worked better during strikes.
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The hidden challenge at the heart of the 10-year plan
A new tool exploring why hospital bed pressure is increasing and what this could mean for future NHS capacity planning.
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Strategy Unit to lead the Strategic Commissioning Intelligence Centre
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NICE vs Not So NICE: Clinical vs Operational Excellence
If operational decisions shape patient outcomes as much as clinical decisions, why doesn't the NHS support them with the same evidence infrastructure?
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A new tool to help systems to deliver the left shift
Our new tool to help systems explore opportunities to reduce hospital care.
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Neighbourhoods and hospital activity: oh yes it can, oh no it can’t?
Simple, intuitive ideas don’t draw critical attention. They stroll about the policy world, untested and unscathed.
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Improving the experience of waiting: the evidence behind new NHS minimum standards
New NHS patient experience minimum standards aim to improve how people experience waiting for elective care
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Waiting List Conference 2026: From Backlog to Breakthrough
Reducing elective care waiting lists remains one of the most pressing challenges facing the NHS.
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Exploring cultural adaptations in dementia care: our work with the NHS Race and Health Observatory
Understanding what it takes to deliver culturally responsive dementia care.
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Improving perioperative flow: using simulation to understand elective care pathways
Why are operations still being cancelled on the day of surgery, despite long waiting lists and high demand? The answer often lies not in a single point of failure, but in how the perioperative pathway functions as a whole.
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The impact of failure demand on the ambulance service
Failure demand is described as the additional work created when services fail to meet people’s needs effectively the first time – and
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Complex problems and Multi-Disciplinary Teams
Many moons ago, I was fortunate enough to observe a multi-disciplinary team (MDT) in Dudley.
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Failure demand isn’t new. So why does it feel like a revelation?
Guest blog by Jacob Lant, Chief Executive, National Voices
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Failure demand as a route to success?
When we began looking at failure demand in the NHS, I assumed most of our time would be spent in familiar territory: productivity metr
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Discharge before noon
Can data on discharge times help us to improve hospital flow?
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Adopting the Core20PLUS5 approach: different strokes for different folks?
This blog describes the headline findings from the first phase of the national evaluation of the Core20PLUS5 approach