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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

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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.

10 min review
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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.

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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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 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.

10 min review
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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.

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Blog post 11/03/2021

A framework for understanding policy change

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

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