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We are The Health Economics Unit

We provide world-class economic and analytical expertise. This delivers impactful insights to power the future of health and care delivery.

Supporting decision-making

Helping you generate evidence for the adoption of innovations and effective resource allocation.

Recognise areas for improvement

Evaluating the relative costs and benefits of current and potential care pathways, interventions, technologies, and products.

Demand and capacity modelling

Assessing and explaining your current service demand, peaks, troughs and variations.

Population health analytics

We work with you to Identify patterns of health outcomes in different groups and understand the challenges and risks they face.

Dashboard and visual tools

Our interactive visualisations present and monitor your healthcare data in a dynamic and interactive way.

Our specialist services

Evaluation service

Understanding whether new care pathways and interventions are effective, efficient, and deliver value for money is vital.

Economic evaluations

Inform your decision-making by quantifying the expected health benefits and costs related to alternative options.

Demand and capacity modelling

Understand pathways and how different elements come together, assess and explain current service levels and variations in demand.

Population health analytics

Identify patterns of health outcomes in different groups and understand the challenges and risks they face.

Innovative projects improving the delivery of healthcare

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Funding for health services in England 20/21

Integrated care systems (ICSs) improving population health and reducing inequalities

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Latest news from the Health Economics Unit

Population health management: How systems work together

22 November 2022

This online training session during day 3 of Insight 2022 brings together Population Health Management experts Andi Orlowski, of the Health Economics Unit, and Sally Markwell of Oxford Brookes, to look at…

How to look at data

7 November 2022

Primary Care Networks (PCNs) hold some of the richest data in health and care which can tell us a great deal about our local populations and their needs.…

A career defining summer?

21 October 2022

Two participants from the 10,000 Black Interns programme speak about their time working at the Health Economics Unit during 2022. Students Aderayo Onipede and Victor Eze-Ukaegbu spent the…