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Report 07/05/2025

Are there any non-technical ‘rules of thumb’ for assessing the quality of analysis?

The report below is from a short project that explored a simple set of questions:

Report 13/12/2024

‘To risk stratify or not risk stratify, that is the question’ (At least, it should be)

Risk stratification tools are ubiquitous in healthcare. The concept is simple and seductive.

Report 15/10/2024

What are the downsides of digital?

What are the downsides of digital?

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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.

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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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Report 04/11/2022

What are the ethical challenges in addressing inequities?

Produced by Angie Hobbs - the world’s first Professor in the Public Understanding of Philosophy – this paper examines the ethical questions raised by our report outlining strategies for reducing inequity.

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.

Report 01/07/2020

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

Working with our partners 

Report 02/04/2020

Outcomes based commissioning: A framework for local decision making

This local decision-making framework aims to empower systems as they look to design new contracting approaches aimed at improving outcomes.

Report 14/03/2020

Midlands Population Health Management Academy

The Midlands Population Health Management Academy was part of a programme of support, commissioned by NHS

Report 09/01/2020

How will we know if Integrated Care Systems reduce demand for urgent care?

The implications of a blended payment system are far reaching: Decisions about planned activity levels will determine the total funding envelope for urgent care within a system and will influence the behaviour of healthcare providers and the services they deliver to patients.

Report 17/09/2018

Evaluation of the Dudley New Care Models Programme

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

Report 11/06/2018

Risk and Reward Sharing for NHS Integrated Care Systems

Risk and reward sharing is a simple and attractive concept, offering a commissioner the opportunity to co-opt and incentivise a provid

Report 09/02/2018

Dudley MCP Scenario Analysis

Dudley is one of fourteen vanguard sites nationally developing the Multispecialty Community Provider (MCP) care model.

Report 01/12/2017

Evaluation and complex change

 

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