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Hospital building 08/04/2025
News

Our role in the New Hospital Programme

​​Learn how the Strategy Unit’s innovative model is transforming hospital planning by providing a consistent, data-driven approach to forecast future demand and evidence-based decision making.

30/01/2025
News

Our collective responsibility to share evaluation findings

The Strategy Unit is increasingly being commissioned to undertake evaluations on the pre

03/12/2024
News

Evaluating NHS England’s national approach to tackling healthcare inequalities

NHS England have commissioned the Strategy Unit to evaluate the national Core20PLUS5 approach for reducing healthcare inequalities.

21/04/2023
Blog post
Learning and development | Public health and prevention

Could a peer review methodology help drive continual learning within and across local systems?

In this blog Karen describes how peer review methodologies are being used to support learning in Long COVID services.

07/03/2023
Blog post
Evidence Reviews

No more suffering in silence, we want to talk about the menopause

To mark International Women’s Day on March 8, Karen Bradley, Principal Consultant at the Strategy Unit, and Susan Blakey, Senior People Consultant at MLCSU, two advisors involved in the recent project, ‘Menopause and the NHS Workforce’, discuss its significance and share what they want to see happen as a result of the published report.

18/10/2022
News
Evaluation and impact assessment | Policy

Menopause and the NHS workforce

Now with the World Menopause Day 2022 update. What is it like to experience menopause as an NHS employee? And what is its impact on both the individuals and the organisations they work for?

27/09/2022
News
Elective care | Inequalities | Policy | Strategy Development

Helping ICSs to reduce inequalities in access to planned care

Are there inequalities in access to planned care? If so, what are they? Which groups ‘gain’ and which groups suffer? And what could be done to address any inequalities? In pursuing their objective of reducing inequalities, what could Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) do? What strategies and approaches are likely to be successful?

01/07/2022
News

Blog: Strategies to reduce inequalities in planned care

MDSN responds to recent reports addressing the NHS waiting list crisis

08/06/2022
News
Futures thinking

‘Might’ is right

A good idea can be ruined by over-selling.

09/05/2022
News
Elective care | Inequalities

Strategies to reduce inequalities in access to planned hospital procedures

UPDATE 10th August: Now including briefing note for Integrated Care Boards on legal duties in respect of reducing inequalities. This report guides ICBs through the process.

28/04/2022
News

Appointing an ICS ‘Chief Analyst’

The Strategy Unit has, over the last ten years, developed a way of working that has allowed us to become recognised as a leading analytical organisation in the NHS.

30/03/2022
News
Better use of analysis

‘Developing your ICS Intelligence Functions’: A Free Webinar Series

What is an ‘Intelligence Function’? What value can they add to decision making? How can they be configured and who needs to be involved? What lessons can be drawn from current practice?

11/03/2022
Blog post

Treating people on waiting lists: who decides what is fair?

Waiting lists for elective care are in the news. The national plan has been issued, with the expectation that lists will continue to rise for some years - and that long waiting will not disappear anytime soon. Addressing this ‘backlog’ will remain a fundamental challenge for some time to come.

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.

15/10/2021
News
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.

12/02/2021
News
Evaluation and impact assessment | Learning and development | Public health and prevention

Share your good practice in increasing vaccine uptake

The Strategy Unit will undertake a rapid qualitative project to identify, collate and share, good practice across England in increasing COVID-19 vaccine uptake.

28/01/2021
Blog post
Complex Modelling | Emergency care | Inequalities

Strategy Unit analysis published showing changes in use of emergency departments under lockdown

We know that patterns of access to healthcare have changed during the pandemic.

09/12/2020
News
Elective care | Emergency care | Evaluation and impact assessment | Mental health | Primary, community and social care services

Evaluating Artificial Intelligence: a significant new win

The Strategy Unit, the Health Economics Unit and Leicester Clinical Trials Unit have been announced as evaluation partners to support success in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Health and Care Awards.     

04/12/2020
Blog post

A learning NHS and ‘black box’ analysis aren’t compatible

Data analysis presents a limitless opportunity to improve decision making within the NHS.

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

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