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

I must be an unpleasant creature to share a room with. I snore. I smell. And I’m seemingly addicted to my way of doing things.

Knowing this, I booked two single rooms for me and a friend to go walking in the Peak District. For reasons that remain obscure, the app I used to make the booking failed. We ended up sharing a horrifyingly intimate, and mutually disturbing, twin room.

Relational continuity of care, the extent to which patients have an ongoing relationship with a specific clinician in their GP practice, is perhaps one of the most well researched aspects of primary care service delivery. 

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.