The Strategy Unit have been awarded funding from the Health Foundation to improve analytical capability in health and care services
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31st July 2019

The Strategy Unit have been selected to be part of the latest round of the Health Foundation's Advancing Applied Analytics programme.

 

The programme aims to improve analytical capability in support of health and care services. In this third round of the programme, the Health Foundation is providing funding to 10 teams in the UK that are working on innovative projects that demonstrate the value of improving analytical capability in health and care. Each project will run for up to 15 months and will start in September 2019.

 

Population Health Management Analyst Development Programme: An overview
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12th June 2019

The Population Health Management (PHM) Analyst Development Programme will introduce analysts from the Midlands CCGs, NHS Trusts, CSUs, Local Authorities and national bodies (NHSE&I; PHE) to the concepts of PHM. It will equip them with the conceptual frameworks, knowledge and skills required to play a central role in the development and deployment of PHM within STPs/ICS.

Part of the solution or part of the problem? Management Consultants and the NHS
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13th August 2018

I was quoted in a recent Guardian newspaper article which described a London Clinical Commissioning Group’s wasteful use of external management consultants. That in turn came after I spoke at the CASS Business School seminar on the same topic on 9th May this year. In this blog, I set out why I believe the NHS is enticed by management consultancies and I offer an alternative option of ‘internal consultancy’ as practised by the Strategy Unit.