The Strategy Unit is proud to support early-career analysts that help widen access to data science and strengthen diversity in the field. This summer, we welcomed Ashionye Aninze, through the Health Data Science Black Internship Programme, where she worked with our modelling team on a project to make the New Hospital Programme demand model more accessible.

Hospices are fundamental to end of life care, and the broader shift ‘from hospital to community’. But, relying on charitable income, they are in financial trouble. In an article first published in the Integrated Care Journal, Fraser Battye, asks ‘what is to be done’?

The NHS waiting list in England must halve to reach waiting time targets.

Our analysis and stakeholder engagement supported NHS England to develop the national Ethnicity Recording Improvement Plan.

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.