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Let’s face the music and (not) dance
David Frith leads our strategy consultancy work with NHS and third sector organisations.
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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**
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New Perspectives on the Perennial Problem of Urgent Care
Waiting times in A&E are never far from the headlines. It threatens to become the defining healthcare performance issue of our time
Blog post Better use of analysis | Problem Structuring
Part of the solution or part of the problem? Management Consultants and the NHS
I was quoted in a recent Guardian newspaper article which described a London Clinical Commissioning Group’s wasteful use of external
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Do you like to integrate horizontally or vertically? NHS positions examined
Our latest research paper explores the impact of the different options for integration implemented as a result of the Transforming Community Services policy in 2010. This accompanying commentary reflects on potential implications for the current policy drive towards Integrated Care Systems.
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Scenario planning – an antidote to the false certainties of forecasts and grand plans
The resurgence of uncertainty
News Finance and payments | Learning and development | Policy
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
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HSJ Article - Why are A&Es feeling the strain?
Article published by HSJ on 3rd November 2017.
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Artificial Intelligence and the NHS
This is a note of an interview with Matt Fenech of Future Advocacy
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Completing the Clinical Assurance Process quickly and thoroughly - Clinical Assurance Evidence Framework published
The Five Year Forward View set out an ambitious vision for the future of the NHS, which aims to deliver improved health, patient care and efficiency.