Socio-economic inequalities in coronary heart disease
There are substantial differences in mortality rates from cardiovascular disease between socio-economic groups. Our new tool provides an overview, for ICBs, of the points on the care pathway where inequalities emerge and are amplified
Population health implications of the Covid-19 pandemic
Our new report for The Midlands Decision Support Network (MDSN) presents findings of the effects of the care disruption, from the Covid-19 pandemic, on population health. The in-depth analysis identifies which patients and health conditions should be the focus of future efforts in reducing inequalities caused by the pandemic.
The NHS as an anchor institution: addressing fuel poverty
The number of households in fuel poverty in Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent (SSoT) is higher than the national average. As anchor institutions, NHS organisations can use their assets to influence the health and wellbeing of their local communities. The Strategy Unit was asked by the Midlands NHS Greening Board to evaluate a cross-sector initiative in SSoT to help alleviate fuel poverty using savings generated through solar panels on NHS buildings. The project is called Keep Warm, Keep Well.
Inclusive Elective Care Recovery
These case studies present the key features and learning from local initiatives which championed inclusive approaches to elective care recovery.
How is growth in diagnostic testing affecting the hospital system?
Diagnostic services, such as medical imaging, endoscopy, and pathology, have grown substantially in recent years and at a faster rate than most other healthcare services. Increased diagnostic testing brings benefits to patients, but rapid growth of this service area within a complex, adaptive system such as the NHS is likely to have had unintended consequences. Midlands ICBs wanted to understand the impact of diagnostic growth on hospital services.
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Improvement Science
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Economic thinking for non-economists
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Introduction to R and RStudio
SummaryBased on the hugely popular Introduction to R and R Studio course run by NHS-R Community volunteers.,
Introduction to Git and GitHub (RStudio)
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Introduction to Quarto course
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Working with challenge and conflict
What does the session cover? Why problems repeat or feel intractable and how to work with this
Better quality decision making
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Ethics for decision making
What does the session cover?What ethical decision making is and why it mattersThe main approaches for think
Leading in collaboration
What does the session cover?The underlying dynamics of partnership decision makingThe concept of ‘stretch c
System thinking, system doing
What does the session cover?The characteristics of ‘systems’ and especially of complex systemsThe implicati
Seeing (and feeling) your organisation in new ways
What does the session cover?Exploring the ‘organisation-in-the-mind’, and where it does and doesn’t match with reali
Working with challenge and conflict
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