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 fighting a pandemic; we’re fighting an infodemic”. Misinformation and conspiracy theories have become endemic and teams within health and care systems have seen the impact on…
A new resource to support analysis of outpatient services: Classifying activity by function
The number of outpatient attendances in England is now approaching 100 million each year.[1] In 2017/18, the estimated cost of this care was over £9 billion – or 8% of the total NHS England budget. So, isn’t it strange how little we know about outpatient activity and, in particular, the…
Better use of analysis | Elective care | Policy
‘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. By predicting the risk of future adverse events, we should be able to target efforts to avoid/mitigate them. Doing so would save both money and misery. But, as Niels Bohr said wryly, “Prediction isn’…
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 actually make a change? We all know that change is hard, things might improve for a while but then people just drift back into old habits, others just never seem to get…
INSIGHT 2021: Reducing health inequalities - the practical & ethical challenges
This session debated the ethical challenges around addressing health inequalities. We heard from our expert panel as Insight 2021 looks at the ethical and practical challenges of reducing health inequalities. Professor Sir Michael Marmot: Professor of Epidemiology at University College London,…
INSIGHT 2021: Data for the head, stories for the heart
Death is certain, yet our planning doesn’t reflect this. At the individual level, conversations and preparations are frequently missing or patchy. And at the population level we also don’t plan well for what is coming. So how do we improve this? How can we make better use of data and analysis that…
INSIGHT 2021: Data for the head, stories for the heart
Death is certain, yet our planning doesn’t reflect this. At the individual level, conversations and preparations are frequently missing or patchy. And at the population level we also don’t plan well for what is coming. So how do we improve this? How can we make better use of data and analysis that…
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’Callaghan, Peter Spilsbury) on the challenge of finding value through efficiency and allocating resources appropriately. Andi Orlowski, from the Health Economics Unit was joined by this…
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 ideas and standing out from the crowd. Join Tom Parnell and Matthew Grek on their mission to help you maximise action from your insights! Tom Parnell,…
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. The tool labels attendances according to their function, for example diagnostic procedure and pre-operative assessment, and has been created to support both service redesign…
INSIGHT 2021: Insight into action for adult social care. how? IMPACT Centre
This session began with Professor Jon Glasby describing IMPACT – a new £15 million UK centre that he leads for implementing evidence in adult social care, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and the Health Foundation. Jon was then joined by Pete Jackson (WM ADASS) and an individual…
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? In this session we heard from a diverse panel of speakers who shared their experiences of research and practice across a range of sectors. Learn about what works (and what doesn’t!)…
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. This session reflected on some of the learning from the NHS frontline in Bradford and how data, science and community engagement was harnessed to protect a city. There is a second pandemic that is…
Insight 2021: Welcome to INSIGHT 2021
Peter Spilsbury (Director, Strategy Unit) welcomes you to INSIGHT 2021 and introduces the opening event of this year’s Festival.
Mental health | Primary, community and social care services
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. By contrast, poor mental health can cast a long shadow. Consequences may include depression, self-harm, and poor physical health. Services recognise this. They aim to provide access to support in a…
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…
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.
Policy | Primary, community and social care services | Public health and prevention
Increasing vaccine uptake
The purpose of this work was to identify the key features of local initiatives which encourage vaccine uptake in different population groups, and share these for others to learn from.
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.
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…