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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.

Machine learning challenge

Create a predictive model and help the NHS recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.

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

HEU’s Jack Ettinger to speak at the HIMSS European Health Conference

16 June 2022

Jack Ettinger, Senior Health Economist at the Health Economics Unit (HEU), will be speaking and joining a panel discussion at the HIMSS European Health Conference and Exhibition in…

AphA mentorship programme aims to strengthen analyst community

15 June 2022

Launched in April 2021, the Association of Professional Healthcare Analysts’ (AphA) mentorship programme is designed to connect mentors and mentees across the NHS and public sector. Aligning to…

Why population health is the future

16 May 2022

The Health Economics Unit’s director, Andi Orlowski, recently spoke at the Pulse PCN London forum about how primary care networks (PCNs) can use their deep understanding of local…