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 public 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 evaluation of patient and carer experiences of virtual wards found widespread benefits and highlights areas for improvements particularly in involving carers better.

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

‘Analysis’ means to pull something apart: to understand phenomena by breaking them down into their constituent parts. 
But sometimes analysis breaks things down at a deeper level. Sometimes analysis pulls beliefs apart. Cherished assumptions; hopes for the future; things we wish were true: analysis can tug and tug until they also fall away.

​​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.