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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

NHS-R Conference 2021

25 October 2021

The NHS-R Community is running its fourth annual conference during the first two weeks of November 2021. The conference promotes the use of R in the NHS and…

The most valuable value

21 October 2021

Watch the debate as experts from the NHS, National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and academia discuss the challenges of finding value through efficiency and allocating…

Sharing your awesomeness

15 October 2021

We do incredible work every day in health and care, not just those on the frontlines, but also analysts, economists, communications professionals and everyone who is working behind…