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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

Working together is crucial to tackle wider determinants

2 August 2021

What are wider determinants of health and why do they matter so much? Andi Orlowski spoke on the subject at the Together for Health conference in April 2021,…

Using data to help fight high stroke rates in Hounslow

30 July 2021

Dr Sadia Khan, Consultant Cardiologist, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, has been working with us to investigate whether a local quality improvement initiative has impacted on…

HEU is hiring

25 July 2021

We are the Health Economics Unit and we lead on the generation of world-class evidence through health economics and advanced analytics for the NHS and beyond. Through collaboration…