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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

Report 15/10/2021

Strategy Unit devises a new method for classifying outpatient appointments

The number of outpatient attendances in England is now approaching 100 million each year.

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

14/10/2021

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

 

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

12/10/2021

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

This session debated the ethical challenges around addressing health inequalities.

12/10/2021

INSIGHT 2021: Data for the head, stories for the heart

Death is certain, yet our planning doesn’t reflect this.

12/10/2021

INSIGHT 2021: Data for the head, stories for the heart

Death is certain, yet our planning doesn’t reflect this.

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’

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

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.

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?

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.

05/10/2021

Insight 2021: Welcome to INSIGHT 2021

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

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.

10 min review
Report 12/05/2021

Socio-economic inequalities in access to planned hospital care: causes and consequences

Tacking inequalities in health is a long-standing NHS policy objective. Variation in the experiences and outcomes of different communities during the COVID-19 pandemic served to bring this issue back into focus.

People in a Meeting Room
Blog post 09/04/2021

How do we develop analysts as leaders? Early thoughts from our ‘leadership for analysts’ programme

“What is an analyst?” 

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?

Blog post 11/03/2021

A framework for understanding policy change

A new policy, strategic direction or major programme is announced.

Long read 23/02/2021

Analytical Collaboration for COVID-19

  Between March and December 2020 the Health Foundation; King’s Fund; Nuffield Trust; and the Strategy Unit collaborated to provide 

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