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Blog post 01/07/2022

Blog: Strategies to reduce inequalities in planned care

MDSN responds to recent reports addressing the NHS waiting list crisis

15/10/2021

INSIGHT 2021: Insight to action - lessons from think tanks

The Midlands Decision Support Network exists to support health and care leaders generate insights from high quality analysis and evalu

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14/10/2021

A new resource to support analysis of outpatient services: Classifying activity by function

 

Andi Orlowski
11/10/2021

INSIGHT 2021: The most valuable value - a health and care resourcing dilemma

We heard discussions from experts from the NHS, NICE and academia (Andi Orlowski, Gwyn Bevan, Deborah O’

Professor John Wright
05/10/2021

INSIGHT 2021: What can we learn from the pandemic to reduce health inequalities

The COVID pandemic has highlighted the stark inequalities in health that exist in the UK and globally.

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05/10/2021

Insight 2021: Welcome to INSIGHT 2021

Peter Spilsbury (Director, Strategy Unit) welcomes you to INSIGHT 2021 and i

Figure 1: Deaths in England, long term trends and forecasts
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.

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