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March 2022 Strategy Unit information

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.

November 2021 Inequalities | Policy | Primary, community and social care services

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. It said which services and supports are needed to help people whose behaviour challenges services or who have mental health problems. This was because too many people were living…

July 2021 Inequalities | Policy | Public health and prevention

Measuring the effect of the coronavirus pandemic on population health

Measuring the effect of the coronavirus pandemic on population health One feature of the pandemic has been the fast-flowing stream of facts and numbers about the impact of Covid-19. At the same time, we’ve had to absorb the meaning of terms that were previously the preserve of epidemiologists and…

June 2021 Better use of analysis | Elective care | Emergency care | Inequalities | Primary, community and social care services | Public health and prevention

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 May 2021 Elective care | Inequalities | Policy | Primary, community and social care services

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.

April 2021 Inequalities | Policy | Primary, community and social care services | Public health and prevention

Reviewing the evidence on digital inclusion

Digital technology is a significant part of our daily lives. It has changed the way we interact with each other, the services we use, and the ways we work.    The NHS is no exception. Digital technology has begun to change the way health and care services are delivered. And the Covid-19 pandemic …

February 2021 Better use of analysis | Inequalities | Public health and prevention

Strategy Unit analysis of air quality highlights inequalities

Poor air quality is the largest environmental risk to public health in the UK and central London has the highest levels of particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide.  The Guy’s and St. Thomas’ charity, now operating its programmes under the Impact on Urban Health banner, have committed to 10 years of…

February 2021 Inequalities | Mental health | Policy | Primary, community and social care services | Public health and prevention

Learning from lockdown: support for people experiencing homelessness

There are few clearer measures of societal health than homelessness. On this count, and despite its enormous material wealth, England is in poor shape. Relative to the recent past, and any country we might want to compare ourselves to, we have a problem with homelessness. The causes of homelessness…

January 2021 Elective care | Finance and payments | Inequalities

Equity and Cost Growth in Specialised Services

NHS specialised services provide care for people with complex or rare medical conditions. Treatments for these conditions are often expensive: While specialised services support a small proportion of the population, approximately one-sixth of the total NHS budget - over £19 billon - was allocated…

November 2020 Better use of analysis | Inequalities | Mental health

Mental Health Surge Model

Early in the Covid pandemic, it became clear that people’s mental health would suffer. Whether through bereavement, unemployment, social isolation, not being able to access support services – or a host of other routes – an alarming picture began to emerge and attract attention.

October 2020 Inequalities | Policy | Public health and prevention

COVID-19: breaking the cycle of deprivation and ill health

Promoting whole-system action on the wider determinants of healthy life expectancy in the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic

October 2020 End of life | Inequalities

Health service use in the last two years of life

Health and care services get just one opportunity to support people at the end of their life. When this support is compassionate and appropriate, unnecessary suffering can be avoided and grieving can be eased. When this is not the case, harm and distress can result. The difference in these…

October 2020 Elective care | Inequalities | Public health and prevention

Socio-economic and environmental impact of Herefordshire and Worcestershire STP

Anchor institutions are large, typically non-profit, public sector organisations whose long-term sustainability is tied to the wellbeing of the populations they serve. They also have a significant impact on the health and wellbeing of their local communities. Health and care organisations act as…

Black pregnant Woman September 2020 Inequalities | Mental health

Accessibility of perinatal mental health services for women from Ethnic Minority groups

Barriers to accessing mental health care during pregnancy and the first postnatal year (perinatal period) seem to be greater for ethnic minority women.

July 2020 Elective care | Inequalities | Primary, community and social care services

Modelling the impact of covid on waiting lists for planned care

Working with the national collaboration to coordinate covid-related analysis, and the NHSE/I Midlands region, the Strategy Unit has produced a ‘systems dynamics’ model of waiting lists for planned care. The model is freely available for non-commercial use across the NHS. Here, Steven Wyatt and Mike…

July 2020 Inequalities | Primary, community and social care services

Primary and Community Qualitative Insights

The COVID-19 response required rapid change and innovation across health and care. As part of a wider package of evaluation support, from April to June, the Strategy Unit led some qualitative work (training and supporting CCG staff to conduct interviews) across an STP to capture learning from…

July 2020 Better use of analysis | Elective care | Inequalities | Mental health | Primary, community and social care services

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

Working with our partners Ipsos MORI, we have produced detailed guidance and an offer of services to address this question. This webpage contains information about the work, and all the products from it.   Please get in touch if you would like to improve your use of person-centred intelligence.  

March 2020 Better use of analysis | Inequalities | Public health and prevention

Midlands Population Health Management Academy

The Midlands Population Health Management Academy was part of a programme of support, commissioned by NHS England and NHS Improvement (Midlands) working in partnership with the Local Government Association and Public Health England. The Programme ran from March 2019 to March 2020. It was designed…

Thumbnail February 2019 Inequalities | Policy | Primary, community and social care services

New care models - what's the evidence

High level findings from a series of evidence reviews on new care models.

Thumbnail January 2019 Inequalities | Mental health

Evaluation of Building the Right Support: findings to date

Building the Right Support is a national plan to provide better support to people with a learning disability or autism. It says what services and supports are needed to help people whose behaviour challenges services or who have mental health problems.

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