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08/06/2022
News
Futures thinking

‘Might’ is right

A good idea can be ruined by over-selling.

01/04/2022
Blog post
Complex Modelling | Population Mapping

Bringing patient flow modelling into general practice

With general practice appointments hitting the highest numbers on record (34.8 million in England alone in November 2021), careful organisation and planning for patient appointments is increasingly important.

03/02/2022
News
Better use of analysis | Futures thinking | Learning and development

Decision makers can make much better use of analysis

Part of the Strategy Unit mission is to improve the use of analysis in decision making. Current use is, to employ a euphemism, variable.

16/10/2020
Blog post
Futures thinking | Policy

The bigger picture

Today, the Health Foundation launched the REAL Centre (Research and Economic Analysis for the Long term), an incredibly important initiative to imp

09/12/2019
Blog post
Better use of analysis | Futures thinking | Problem Structuring

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

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

10/10/2019
Blog post

World Mental Health Day - Insights from our Guest Blog Series

On World Mental Health Day 2019, we bring to a close the Strategy Unit’s guest blog series which explored the overlap between mental and physical health.

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Blog post

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.

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Blog post

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.

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Blog post

Warp and weft – recognising that physical and mental health are interwoven - By Professor Sir Muir Gray

On World Mental Health Day, we’re delighted to present a guest blog by Professor Sir Muir Gray, the first in a new series of commi

04/07/2018
Blog post

Mental Health and integration: Cinderella or the Ugly Sisters?

Introduction

26/09/2017
Feedback from clients

"This report is vitally important to us and a powerful call to action" - Mental Health Report

"I have quoted the headlines from this remarkable report at two board meetings over the last two days and the response has been ident

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