Introducing a new online tool to help local health and care service planners think differently about healthy ageing.    

‘Analysis’ means to pull something apart. In the NHS, this typically means understanding something – changes in unplanned admissions, for example – by breaking something down into simpler constituent elements.  

But sometimes beliefs get pulled apart. Cherished assumptions; hopes for the future; things we need to be true. That kind of thing.

​​Learn how the Strategy Unit’s innovative model is transforming hospital planning by providing a consistent, data-driven approach to forecast future demand and evidence-based decision making.

In this blog, our Head of Policy, Fraser Battye, shares his reflections on a recent ‘SU INSIGHTS’ event on the ‘Internal Consultancy’ model.  

Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Chief Minister to King Louis XIV, is credited with saying that:

“The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing.”

Ahead of a SU INSIGHTS event on the topic, Fraser Battye, our Head of Policy suggests ways the NHS could make better use of consultancy support.

Our Head of Policy, Fraser Battye, looks at the challenges facing the intention to shift care ‘from hospital to community’. He suggests that we have missed a critical part of the explanation for why this ‘left shift’ hasn’t taken place following previous initiatives.

In this long read, which first appeared in the HSJ, Fraser Battye - our Head of Policy – looks at the role of charisma and innovation in the way that NHS resources are allocated.

The Strategy Unit is increasingly being commissioned to undertake evaluations on the premise of learning from the findings for programme delivery. As our evaluation blog series continues, Abeda Mulla sets out why this intent to share lessons learnt from evaluations is realised in frustratingly few instances and outlines our collective responsibility to share findings more widely.

Evaluation blog series continues with Impact Evaluation Lead Mike Woodall looking at how programme designers can maximise the chances of success.