Keep up to date with our latest news and blogs.  As part of our commitment to openness and transparency, we also share recent feedback from our clients and our monthly feedback scores.

 14/05/2019
News

Population Health Management support

13/05/2019
News Mental health services

When mental illness and physical illness overlap

A series of guest blogs from Professor Sir Muir Gray, Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health FT Medical Director - Dr Hilary Grant, Health Foundation Chief Executive - Jennifer Dixon, Mind's Director of External Relations - Sophie Corlett, GP & Clinical Director - Dr Paul Turner, and Diabetes UK - Colette Marshall.

07/05/2019
News Capacity and Demand | Evaluation | Secondary care

Survey: Seasonal Profiling in NHS Elective Care

NHS England and NHS Improvement (NHSE & I) are exploring the opportunity of applying seasonal profiling in elective care.

29/04/2019
Blog post

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.

17/04/2019
Blog post

Living with diabetes is a mind game - Colette Marshall, Diabetes UK

As we continue our series of viewpoints on the physical and clinical mental health divide, Colette Marshall, Director of Operations at Diabetes UK brings the perspective of those living with a chronic health condition.

14/03/2019
Feedback from clients Integrated Care | Service improvement

The Neighbourhood Network Feedback

We have received some fantastic feedback from those who attended our "Science of Improvement" workshop led by our very own Professor Mohammed A Mohammed on Wednesday 27th February 2019. 

13/03/2019
Blog post Mental health services | Primary Care

The body keeps the score (do we?)

In this fifth guest blog, in our series of viewpoints on the physical and clinical mental health divide, Dr Paul Turner, General Practitioner at Karis Medical Centre, Birmingham and Joint Clinical Director for Mental Health, NHSE West Midlands Clinical Network describes the cost of untreated complexity.

08/03/2019
Blog post

Time to act for sex and gender parity in health and care

On International Womens Day 2019, Abeda Mulla from the Strategy Unit reflects on our gendered society that has led to poorer health outcomes in women.

18/02/2019
Blog post

Emerging from the silos: how the NHS can support economic growth

The Strategy Unit has been leading the way on supporting local NHS bodies to consider the wider economic impact of how they operate. Here, David Frith highlights what a shift this is for the NHS, along with the range of opportunities NHS bodies should consider exploring.

12/02/2019
News

"The Science of Improvement" Neighbourhood Network Event

Our third Neighbourhood Network event will be led by our very own Professor Mohammed A Mohammed, an expert in the Science of Improvement.  

 06/02/2019
Blog post Mental health services

They don’t believe you

Continuing our mental and physical health guest blog series, Sophie Corlett the Director of External Relations at Mind provides some perspectives from people with physical ailments who are users of mental health services.

09/01/2019
Blog post

Mind and body: inseparable twins

Jennifer Dixon, Chief Executive of the Health Foundation, reflects on the relationship between mental and physical health and the need for better integration of care.

07/01/2019
News

What can the NHS learn from the EU

What could NHS policy makers learn from the European Union?

 18/12/2018
Blog post

Let’s face the music and (not) dance

David Frith leads our strategy consultancy work with NHS and third sector organisations.

 11/12/2018
Blog post

Why community alternatives to hospital admission don’t (typically) reduce total admission levels

Repeatedly, published evaluations show that community/primary care services interventions with a stated intention to reduce total (or forecast total) emergency admissions to hospital don’t achieve the expected result**

07/12/2018
Blog post

Innovation and evaluation – a proposition for change, an offer of support

Health and care services in England are labouring under a chronic state of stress – where for many organisations, ‘just about coping’ has become the new normal.

05/12/2018
Blog post

Painful conversations. A GP perspective on chronic pain.

Dr Paul Roberts, Director of the North Staffordshire GP Federation provides a GP perspective in his contribution to the Strategy Unit’

28/11/2018
Feedback from clients

"...very interesting and high quality"

I thought the subject was spot on, and the analysis very interesting and high quality – well done to all involved” 

22/11/2018
Blog post

Simple tools for improving healthcare - Tool 3: The naïve question

This is the third in our short series of blogs on ‘simple tools for improving healthcare’.

 09/11/2018
Blog post

Simple tools for improving healthcare - Tool 2: A clear theory of change

At heart, the Strategy Unit has a very simple belief.