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Report 21/10/2025

10-Year Productivity Forecast for the English NHS: An Expert Elicitation Study

Expert elicitation exercise commissioned by and in collaboration with the Health Foundation has produced forecasts of NHS productivity rates over the next 10 years.

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Report 13/12/2024

‘To risk stratify or not risk stratify, that is the question’ (At least, it should be)

Risk stratification tools are ubiquitous in healthcare. The concept is simple and seductive.

17/04/2024

Insight to action blog #3: It's a community effort

There are many challenges in translating the findings from insights into action.

17/04/2024

Insight to action blog #2: Conversations between decision makers and analysts

The quality of the analyst-decision maker relationship really matters when it comes to the translation of insights to action.

15/04/2024

Insight to action blog #1: From translation to application

“Solving complex problems requires new approaches to problem solving…To do this, organisations and communities need to become skilled in mobilising

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11/10/2023

Leadership training and support for organisational development: an offer from the Strategy Unit

The Strategy Unit has long been known for the quality of its analytical work, and the clear, critical thi

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Blog post 23/06/2023

Exploring the Edge of Tomorrow, Today

Exploring the critical building blocks for a resilient social care system in 2035 with the West Midlands Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (WM-ADASS).

17/04/2023

Insight to action blogs - a series of blogs from Lucy Hawkins

“Solving complex problems requires new approaches to problem solving…To do this, organisations and communities need to become skilled in mobilising

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Report 28/10/2021

Advancing the analytical capability of the NHS and its ICS partners

The Strategy Unit were asked by the Strategy and Development Team in the Directorate of the Chief Data and Analytics Officer, NHSE/I, to make recommendations for advancing analytical capability across the health and care workforce.

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Blog post 06/08/2021

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

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11/06/2021

Learning the lessons of Long Covid in real time

Round table event, 12 July

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Blog post 09/04/2021

How do we develop analysts as leaders? Early thoughts from our ‘leadership for analysts’ programme

“What is an analyst?” 

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Blog post 16/03/2021

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?

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Blog post 28/01/2021

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.

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09/12/2020

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.     

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Report 21/09/2020

How can we learn from changes in practice under COVID-19

During the COVID-19 pandemic we have seen rapid changes in ways of working.

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Blog post 24/07/2020

Bringing NHS analytics into the 21st Century

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Report 14/03/2020

Midlands Population Health Management Academy

The Midlands Population Health Management Academy was part of a programme of support, commissioned by NHS

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25/09/2019

The Strategy Unit have been awarded funding from the Health Foundation to continue promoting the use of R in the NHS via the NHS-R Community

The value of R and its use within the NHS  

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12/07/2019

PHM Core Team - 2nd July 2019

PHM Academy - Core Team Event 2nd July 2019  We held our first Core Team event on the 2nd July 2019 which was a huge success.

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