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Report 07/05/2025

Are there any non-technical ‘rules of thumb’ for assessing the quality of analysis?

The report below is from a short project that explored a simple set of questions:

Report 15/10/2024

What are the downsides of digital?

What are the downsides of digital?

Report 16/05/2024

How Does Access to Community Health Services for Older People Vary Across the Midlands?

graphic showing inequality being erased with eraser
Report 04/11/2022

What are the ethical challenges in addressing inequities?

Produced by Angie Hobbs - the world’s first Professor in the Public Understanding of Philosophy – this paper examines the ethical questions raised by our report outlining strategies for reducing inequity.

Report 09/05/2022

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.

Report 22/06/2021

Less noise and more light: using criteria-driven analysis to tackle inequalities

Reducing health inequality is a long-standing aim of health policy. Yet the gap between policy aim and population outcome has grown in recent years: on most measures health inequalities have got worse.

Report 08/02/2021

Learning from lockdown: support for people experiencing homelessness

There are few clearer measures of societal health than homelessness.

Report 14/10/2020

Health service use in the last two years of life

Health and care services get just one opportunity to support people at the end of their life. When this support is compassionate and appropriate, unnecessary suffering can be avoided and grieving can be eased. When this is not the case, harm and distress can result. The difference in these experiences can be profound.

Report 01/07/2020

How can Integrated Care Systems collect and use more ‘person-centred intelligence’?

Working with our partners 

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

Report 17/09/2018

Evaluation of the Dudley New Care Models Programme

This is the final system-wide report from the evaluation.

Report 01/12/2017

Scoping study: the economics of caring

There is a clear moral case for supporting unpaid carers.

Report 01/12/2017

Evaluation and complex change

 

Report 02/11/2017

Dudley MCP Evaluation of New Schemes

To support the move to the MCP model of care, Dudley's Partnership Board instituted a series of new schemes.

Report 13/05/2017

Evaluation of the Dudley Multidisciplinary Teams (MDTs) Summary of Final Report

Multi-disciplinary Teams (MDTs) in primary care are a core component of Dudley's care model; they are also widely used elsewhere.

10 min review Report 28/04/2017

Evaluation of the 'new QOF' for Primary Care in Dudley

Evaluation of Dudley Outcomes for Health

Report 20/09/2016

Review of patient reported measures for the MCP

Embedding PROMs and PREMs into Dudley's MCP Contract

Report 20/09/2016

Dudley MCP Public Consultation and Equalities Impact Assessment Report

The MCP will be a new organisation, with a new contract and a remit to change the way that care in Dudley is delivered. 

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