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Report 17/10/2025

Cancer and comorbidities: An Evidence Review of Diagnosis, Treatment, and Experience

An evidence review on the challenges and disparities faced by individuals living with cancer alongside other long-term conditions.

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Tool 02/10/2025

Shifting care ‘from hospital to community’: where to start?

What are the opportunities to shift activity from hospital to community? Our analysis provides an evidence-based place to start.

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Blog post 24/09/2025

A missing element in ‘shifting care’

Our Director, Peter Spilsbury, outlines the scale of the task when it comes to making ‘the shift from hospital to community’.

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Report 31/01/2024

A Picture of End-of-Life Care in England

Working with Macmillan our analysis investigates who is more likely to experience poor outcomes associated with shortcomings in end-of-life care? Are there particular areas in England where those at end-of-life face significant challenges and how might the supply of services in an area be influencing these?

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Report 18/10/2023

Menopause and the NHS workforce

The impact of the menopause on the NHS workforce. The Strategy Unit and Health Economics Unit report on their mixed methods findings.

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Podcast 09/10/2023

Review of Ophthalmic Managed Clinical Networks (MCNs) in Staffordshire and Shropshire

The aim of the MCNs is to bring together primary care optometrists with local ophthalmologists within a geographical area. This is a review Strategy Unit were commissioned by NHS England to work with a medical retina MCN in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin and a glaucoma MCN in Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent, to review their work so far and look at the opportunities the networks present.

Long Covid
Blog post 21/04/2023

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.

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Report 21/03/2023

ICS intelligence functions – a toolkit to support the implementation of NHSE guidance

In 2020, NHSE

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Long read 07/03/2023

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.

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Blog post 13/05/2022

Urgent Community Response – What Works?

The Strategy Unit, with our partners Ipsos, has been commissioned by NHS England and NHS Improvement (NHSEI) to provide a long-term national evaluation of the Urgent Community Response programme rolled-out across England. The programme aims to shift resources to home and community-based services as part of the NHS commitment to providing the right care, to the right people, at the right time. And there are a range of outputs from the early work that provide learning for local systems as they develop their services.

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30/03/2022

‘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?

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Report 15/10/2021

Strategy Unit devises a new method for classifying outpatient appointments

The number of outpatient attendances in England is now approaching 100 million each year.

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14/10/2021

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

 

Dr Katherine Mannix
12/10/2021

INSIGHT 2021: Data for the head, stories for the heart

Death is certain, yet our planning doesn’t reflect this.

Dr Katherine Mannix
12/10/2021

INSIGHT 2021: Data for the head, stories for the heart

Death is certain, yet our planning doesn’t reflect this.

Professor Jon Glasby
06/10/2021

INSIGHT 2021: Insight into action for adult social care. how? IMPACT Centre

This session began with Professor Jon Glasby describing IMPACT – a new £15 million UK centre that he leads for implementing evidence i

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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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Report 22/04/2021

Reviewing the evidence on digital inclusion

Digital technology is a significant part of our daily&nb

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Report 20/04/2021

Evidence review: Early diagnosis of cancer

Detecting cancers early is essential to saving lives and reducing the need for invasive treatments.

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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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