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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.

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.

Report 28/10/2021

Advancing the analytical capability of the NHS and its ICS partners

The Strategy Unit were asked by the Strategy and Development Team in the Directorate of the Chief Data and Analytics Officer, NHSE/I, to make recommendations for advancing analytical capability across the health and care workforce.

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Report 19/10/2021

Estimating the impact of the proposed reforms to the Mental Health Act on the workload of psychiatrists

In January 2021, the Government published a White Paper, setting out its plans to reform the Mental Health Act.

Report 27/07/2021

Inequities in children and young people’s mental health services

Good mental health during early years and childhood has a great bearing on health throughout life.

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 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.

News 10/02/2021

Some positive news for integrating GP practices with hospital trusts

The drive for greater integration of health and care services has been the central theme of UK health policy for most of

Report 08/02/2021

Learning from lockdown: support for people experiencing homelessness

There are few clearer measures of societal health than homelessness.

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Blog post 19/10/2020

Making sense of evidence

It's time to celebrate World Evidence-Based Healthcare (EBHC)  Day.  In a world dominated by COVID-19 and the associated infodemic, this day arguably has more resonance. Closer to home, EBHC Day also coincides with our Insight 2020 festival and the launch of the Midlands Decision Support network.  What better opportunity to ask, 'what does evidence-informed decision making actually mean'?

Blog post 28/09/2020

Insight 2020 - Week 6: Making the most of our decision-making resources

The final week’s theme was a reflection on what had been heard in the previous weeks.We thoug

Blog post 28/09/2020

Insight 2020 - Week 5: The decision-making toolkit

Decision-making is an art; we can train at it, rehearse and access tools to support us.

Blog post 28/09/2020

Insight 2020 - Week 4: Exploring Health Inequalities

COVID-19 has shone a light on health inequalities; it has “laid bare our longstanding social, economic and political inequalities…” (BMJ,

Blog post 28/09/2020

Insight 2020 - Week 3: Analytical priorities of the Decision Support Network

The Midlands Decision Support Unit Network has defined its analytical priorities for 20/21.

Blog post 28/09/2020

Insight 2020 - Week 2: The role of the Decision Support Network

The Midlands Decision Support Unit (DSU) Network is a new and emerging approach to bring together analytical resource a

Blog post 28/09/2020

Insight 2020 - Week 1: Our decision making context in 2020

Transformation in health and care has been rapid and intensive, particularly in 2020.

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.

Report 01/07/2020

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

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