James de Lacy
James has worked in the NHS for almost 10 years and has considerable experience in strategic consultancy projects.
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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
INSIGHT 2020
The Strategy Unit are hosting a 6-week festival of virtual events, called
INSIGHT 2020
Now taking registrations of interest for our free, online 6-week festival:
Rural Health Inequalities
The UK Government (2016) define rural areas as those which
MDSN: Community Healthcare Services
How Does Access to Community Health Services Vary Across the Midlands?
Death (and taxes?)
Hospices are fundamental to end of life care, and the broader shift ‘from hospital to community’.
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.
Scoping a Health Needs Assessment for Adults on Probation in England
This scoping report explores the health inequalities experienced by people on probation and the limited data on their health needs and engagement with health services. It sets out recommendations for commissioning and delivering a national health needs assessment to address that data gap and support local health needs assessments for the probation population.
Localism and the NHS: a case in four stories
In this blog, Fraser Battye makes the case for localism in the NHS. He tells four short stories. He suggests that these stories highlight an opportunity as the NHS enters a period of reform.
Appointing an ICS ‘Chief Analyst’
The Strategy Unit has, over the last ten years, developed a way of working that has allowed us to become recognised as a leading analytical organisation in the NHS.
Is ‘Integrating Care’ bold enough?
In this blog, Fraser Battye leaves the Strategy Unit’s usual careful and empirical view of the world. He reflects on NHS England and Improvement’s ‘Integrating Care’ paper from the perspective of wider ideological and societal trends. In doing so, he suggests that there is scope for bolder reform – and that localism is the way to go.
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Discharged without a diagnosis
In 2023/24, one million people who were admitted to an NHS hospital in an emergency, were later discharged without a diagnosis. This long-read examines what this means for patients and providers.
Integrated Care Systems
There is an increasing evidence base that co-ordinating plans, integrating delivery and aligning incentives across currently separate organisations
Jonathan Spencer
Jonathan previously worked for the Nuffield Trust, and as a researcher in health economics at Kings College London.
New care models - what's the evidence
High level findings from a series of evidence reviews on new care models.
Beating the backlog: Meeting the waiting list challenge
The NHS waiting list in England must halve to reach waiting time targets.