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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. 

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

Guide 29/01/2025

A Guide to Effective Evaluation: Design, Principles and Practice

Evaluation is key to making better decisions in health and care– understanding what works, for whom, and why.

Report 29/09/2023

Learning about what works in urgent community response

The initial report from the national urgent community response (UCR) evaluation, along with an economic modelling tool to help service providers and systems understand the impact of UCR, is now available.

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Report 22/03/2023

The NHS as an anchor institution: addressing fuel poverty

The number of households in fuel poverty in Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent (SSoT) is higher than the national average. As anchor institutions, NHS organisations can use their assets to influence the health and wellbeing of their local communities. The Strategy Unit was asked by the Midlands NHS Greening Board to evaluate a cross-sector initiative in SSoT to help alleviate fuel poverty using savings generated through solar panels on NHS buildings. The project is called Keep Warm, Keep Well.

16/12/2022

MDSN: Evaluating Social Prescribing Literature Review

Evaluating Social Prescribing – Literature review for the MDSN Evaluation Community of Practice collaborative project

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.

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.

Report 12/11/2021

Evaluation of Building the Right Support: Final Reports

Building the Right Support was a national plan to provide better support to people with a learning disability or autism.

Guide 15/12/2020

A free guide to support high quality evaluation in the NHS

The Strategy Unit issues free guide to evaluation principles and practice

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.     

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.

Report 20/07/2020

Primary and Community Qualitative Insights

The COVID-19 response required rapid change and innovation across health and care.

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.

18/08/2017

Innovation In Dudley: The Enabling Practice To Improve And Change Programme (Epic)

The Strategy Unit has been working with GP practices in Dudley for the last three years to support service improvement in Primary Care.

18/08/2017

Innovation In Dudley: The Enabling Practice To Improve And Change Programme (Epic)

The Strategy Unit has been working with GP practices in Dudley for the last three years to support service improvement in Primary Care.

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