An evidence review on the challenges and disparities faced by individuals living with cancer alongside other long-term conditions.

How well do we understand changing expectations and implications for the NHS?

Rising pubic expectations are described in the 10 Year Plan as a major factor shaping healthcare of the future. But how are expectations changing? And what are the implications for the NHS?

Our open-source demand model, developed in collaboration with the New Hospital Programme, has been named the 2025 winner of the Florence Nightingale Award for Excellence in Health and Care Analytics.

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.”