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Blog post 11/03/2022

Treating people on waiting lists: who decides what is fair?

Waiting lists for elective care are in the news. The national plan has been issued, with the expectation that lists will continue to rise for some years - and that long waiting will not disappear anytime soon. Addressing this ‘backlog’ will remain a fundamental challenge for some time to come.

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02/12/2021

PHM ExploreR

NHS Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire CCG presenting PHM ExploreR which is an open source tool for Population Health M

Logos: Strategy Unit, ICF, University of Birmingham, BILD
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.

15/10/2021

INSIGHT 2021: Insight to action - lessons from think tanks

The Midlands Decision Support Network exists to support health and care leaders generate insights from high quality analysis and evalu

Misinformation and how do we tackle it
14/10/2021

INSIGHT 2021: Misinformation and how do we tackle it?

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO’s director-general, famously said in the early days of the COVID pandemic: “We’re not just fightin

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14/10/2021

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

 

Dr Judith Dyson
13/10/2021

INSIGHT 2021: Insight to Action. How can we change behaviour?

So we’ve gathered all the data and evidence, we understand the problem and we know what we think the best solution is…so how do we act

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 Sir Michael Marmot
12/10/2021

INSIGHT 2021: Reducing health inequalities - the practical & ethical challenges

This session debated the ethical challenges around addressing health inequalities.

Andi Orlowski
11/10/2021

INSIGHT 2021: The most valuable value - a health and care resourcing dilemma

We heard discussions from experts from the NHS, NICE and academia (Andi Orlowski, Gwyn Bevan, Deborah O’

Tom Parnell and Matthew Grek
11/10/2021

Insight 2021: Sharing your awesomeness!

The session looked at how we can put insight into action through remarkable stories, working with communication teams, spreading your

Andrew Jones and Steven Wyatt
07/10/2021

INSIGHT 2021: A new resource to support analysis of outpatient services

In this session, Andrew Jones presented a new classification system designed to enrich analyses of outpatient activity.

Jonathan Breckon
06/10/2021

INSIGHT 2021: Insight to Action. What Works?

It has been estimated that it can take up to 17 years to translate evidence into practice – how can we change that?

Professor John Wright
05/10/2021

INSIGHT 2021: What can we learn from the pandemic to reduce health inequalities

The COVID pandemic has highlighted the stark inequalities in health that exist in the UK and globally.

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05/10/2021

Insight 2021: Welcome to INSIGHT 2021

Peter Spilsbury (Director, Strategy Unit) welcomes you to INSIGHT 2021 and i

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Blog post 15/09/2021

Infant feeding problems, lockdown and attendance at Emergency Departments: what’s going on?

From our previous work, with Nuffield Trust and Health Foundation, we know that lockdown had a significant effect on attendance at Emergency Departments (ED). We also know that this effect was very unevenly distributed: some demographic groups stayed away far more than others.

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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.

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Report 06/07/2021

Measuring the effect of the coronavirus pandemic on population health

Measuring the effect of the coronavirus pandemic on population health

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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.

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