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.

 10/09/2020
News Primary Care | Secondary care | Service configuration | Service improvement

INSIGHT 2020

Now taking registrations of interest for our free, online 6-week festival: 

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03/03/2020
Blog post Service improvement

Key opportunities for eye health and well being

Eye health and sight loss services have historically had a lower profile in service provision compared to many other specialities. There is a view that the importance of eye health has been underrepresented in many Sustainability and Transformation Partnership (STP) plans.

09/12/2019
News Integrated Care | Service improvement

Measuring what matters in systems – A call for person-centred intelligence

The Strategy Unit and Ipsos MORI launch guide to implementing Person-Centred Intelligence.

03/12/2019
Feedback from clients Service improvement

"...an excellent way of encouraging health and care professionals to think about and challenge each other on the future"

"The Strategy Unit scenario planning was an excellent way of encouraging health and care professionals to think about and challenge e

01/08/2019
Feedback from clients Service improvement

"...interesting and just invaluable for our afternoon thinking"

"The way the scenario workshop was structured really stood out for me.

 31/07/2019
News Primary Care

The Strategy Unit have been awarded funding from the Health Foundation to improve analytical capability in health and care services

The Strategy Unit have been selected to be part of the latest round of the Health Foundation's Advancing Applied Analytics programme.

 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.

13/07/2018
News Service improvement

Brief reflections on Dudley's journey as a Vanguard

With the end of the New Care Models programme there is an opportunity to reflect on what has been learnt at local level.

20/03/2018
News Service improvement

Sharing learning from Dudley Vanguard

In 2015, Dudley embarked on an ambitious journey to transform its health and social care services.

research signpost
19/03/2018
Blog post Integrated Care | Primary Care

What works for primary care led integration?

We recently shared highlights from our realist synthesis on primary care-led integrated models, at the Health Policy and Planning Network workshop. Take a look at our presentation for a flavour of our findings ahead of publication later in the summer.

improvement for success
22/12/2017
Blog post Primary Care

Want to have better access to general practice appointments?

Here’s how we can support practice staff to improve access.

09/11/2017
News Secondary care | Service improvement

Strategy Unit work helping make the case for increased NHS funding

We were pleased to hear Simon Stevens referring to the conclusions of our project in his speech this week setting out the

18/08/2017
Blog post Primary Care | Service improvement

Innovation In Dudley: The Enabling Practice To Improve And Change Programme (Epic)

The Strategy Unit has been working with GP practices in Dudley for the last three years to support service improvement in Primary Care.