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summary flow chart highlighting potentially mitigable activity at the top with boxes for redirection, prevention, relocation and efficiences and further boxes underneath
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.

carer holding had with elderly person in wheelchair
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’.

Carer giving seated elderly woman a glass of water
Report 21/08/2025

Hydration, UTIs and older people: learning from NHS pilots about how to improve care

Our evaluation of hydration-focused interventions for older people found promising signs of impact and highlighted the practical and systemic challenges of delivering and sustaining change.

Elderly man wearing arm monitor and female relative sitting on sofa looking at consultant on a computer screen with carer standing nearby
Report 16/06/2025

Virtual wards: Patient and unpaid carer experiences of ‘hospital at home’ care

Our evaluation of patient and carer experiences of virtual wards found widespread benefits and highlights areas for improvements parti

Image of London at night
23/04/2025

“Champion, challenge, collaborate.”

Being commissioned by the Mayor of London to produce independent reviews of proposals for major service change, affecting Londoners, perfectly aligns with our commitment to help the health and care system make better decisions and ultimately achieve benefits for population health and wellbeing. 

dandelion with seeds floating away
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?

Summary of findings from the study
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.

Senior Patient Lady Signing Papers With Doctor In Hospital
Long read 10/05/2023

Inclusive Elective Care Recovery

These case studies present the key features and learning from local initiatives which championed inclusive approaches to elective care recovery.

Image of young child wearing sunglasses
Blog post 28/04/2022

We saw them before they were famous: reflections on AphA’s away day

In June 1976, the Sex Pistols played Manchester's Lesser Free Trade Hall.

Organogram showing sub headings against Family, Community, Use of health services, Occupational, and Policy and guidelines
Report 23/03/2022

We don’t just need to hear ‘you are more affected’ - what’s the action?

The experience of minority ethnic people symptomatic for COVID-19 in the first UK wave of the pandemic.

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.

I've had my covid vaccine sticker with crown and heart in centre
Report 04/06/2021

Increasing vaccine uptake

The purpose of this work was to identify the key features of local initiatives which encourage vaccine uptake in different population groups, and share these for others to learn from.

Dr Anna Lock on Microsoft Teams call with colleagues
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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05/02/2021

NHS-R: 2020 in Review

In 2020, collaboration and community meant more than ever.

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.

PCI guide
Guide 09/12/2019

Measuring what matters in systems – A call for person-centred intelligence

The Strategy Unit and Ipsos MORI launch guide to implementing Person-Centred Intelligence.

Long read 29/09/2019

Lessons, Evaluation and Learning from the Dudley MCP

Learning from Dudley MCP

17/09/2018

Evaluation of the Dudley New Care Models Programme

The Strategy Unit led the evaluation of the Dudley Vanguard programme. This is the final system-wide report from that work.

Report 17/09/2018

Evaluation of the Dudley New Care Models Programme

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

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