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SU Insights
May 2026

  • Read more about SU Insights

‘SU Insights’ is a series of events hosted by the Strategy Unit, exploring the latest analytical insights with leading experts.

What Helps People Stay in NHS Talking Therapies? Insights from Services
Mental health
May 2026

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How NHS Talking Therapies services are improving engagement through clearer expectations, flexible access and stronger support, and what further action could enhance recovery for more people.

Supporting the Mayor's partnership approach to reducing health inequalities in London
May 2026

  • Read more about Supporting the Mayor's partnership approach to reducing health inequalities in London

Being commissioned by the Mayor of London to produce independent reviews of proposals for major service change, affecting Londoners, perfectly aligns with our commitment to help the health and care system make better decisions and ultimately achieve benefits for population health and wellbeing. 

Discharged without a diagnosis
Better use of analysis and decision making, Urgent and emergency care
March 2026

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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.

Continuity in primary care: the safest bet we aren’t able to make?
Better use of analysis and decision making, Inequalities, Primary, community and social care services, System thinking and system working
March 2026

  • Read more about Continuity in primary care: the safest bet we aren’t able to make?

In this long-read, which first appeared in the HSJ, Fraser Battye asks whether focusing on continuity might also improve access to primary care

10-Year Productivity Forecast for the English NHS: An Expert Elicitation Study
Better use of analysis and decision making
October 2025

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Expert elicitation exercise commissioned by and in collaboration with the Health Foundation has produced forecasts of NHS productivity rates over the next 10 years.

A fairer funding future for general practice: lessons from Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland ICB
Inequalities, Primary, community and social care services
October 2025

  • Read more about A fairer funding future for general practice: lessons from Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland ICB

Our evaluation of the Health Equity Payment (HEP) scheme in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland highlights how flexible, needs-based GP funding can support more equitable care.

Heart Failure Targeted Funding Programme 2023/24 Evaluation
Primary, community and social care services
October 2025

  • Read more about Heart Failure Targeted Funding Programme 2023/24 Evaluation

The Heart Failure Targeted Funding Programme was an NHS England initiative to improve access to heart failure specialists in the community and during a hospital admission. Over £4.4 million was invested in services nationally. This report is an evaluation of the programme.

Shifting care ‘from hospital to community’: where to start?
Better use of analysis and decision making, Primary, community and social care services
October 2025

  • Read more about Shifting care ‘from hospital to community’: where to start?

What are the opportunities to shift activity from hospital to community? Our analysis provides an evidence-based place to start.

A missing element in ‘shifting care’
Better use of analysis and decision making, Primary, community and social care services
September 2025

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Our Director, Peter Spilsbury, outlines the scale of the task when it comes to making ‘the shift from hospital to community’.

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