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15/10/2021
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Better use of analysis | Comparative Analysis | Elective care | Finance and payments | Problem Structuring

Strategy Unit devises a new method for classifying outpatient appointments

The number of outpatient attendances in England is now approaching 100 million each year.

15/09/2021
Blog post
Comparative Analysis | Emergency care | Problem Structuring

Infant feeding problems, lockdown and attendance at Emergency Departments: what’s going on?

From our previous work, with Nuffield Trust and Health Foundation, we know that lockdown had a significant effect on attendance at Emergency Departments (ED). We also know that this effect was very unevenly distributed: some demographic groups stayed away far more than others.

10 min review 06/08/2021
Blog post
Comparative Analysis | Elective care | Emergency care

Decisions to admit patients are not solely determined by clinical risk

Whether or not to admit a patient is one of the most routine yet important decisions a doctor in an Emergency Department

01/07/2021
Blog post
Comparative Analysis | Emergency care | Problem Structuring

Emergency Department attendances reach new high – August may bring new challenges 

Earlier this year, the Str

16/03/2021
Blog post
Better use of analysis | Comparative Analysis | End of life | Learning and development

How can analysis help clinicians improve services? Interview with Dr Anna Lock

Dr Anna Lock, Justine Wiltshire and Lucy Hawkins reflect on the Strategy Unit's innovative end of life care analysis. How can this work help clinicians to improve services?

30/10/2020
Blog post
Comparative Analysis | End of life

Why are deaths set to rise?

In our recent analysis of healthcare use in the last 2 years of life, we point out an important change that’s taking place to life and death in the UK. 

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Blog post
Comparative Analysis | Mental health

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
Blog post
Comparative Analysis | Elective 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.

10/10/2017
News
Better use of analysis | Comparative Analysis | Mental health

The Strategy Unit and the new Aston Medical School

We are very pleased to announce that The Strategy Unit has been invited to be a founding member of the new Urgent and Emergency Psychiatric Care Ce

26/09/2017
Blog post
Comparative Analysis | Mental health

Making the Case for integrating mental and physical health care

The Strategy Unit was commissioned by NHS England to provide tailored reports to each of the Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships in England.

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