Case studies
Evaluating the impact and cost benefits of NHS 111
Evaluating the NHS's 111 service for the first time - helping NHS England to understand whether it offers value for money, and how it might be systematically improved.
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Modelling gambling harm across Great Britain
Gambling harm has a significant health, financial and societal impact. However, the prevalence of gambling harm in the UK is not well understood, with different sources giving different estimates, making it difficult to plan and ...
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Enhancing care planning and management through demand and capacity modelling
Discover how combining large-scale engagement and complex data analysis enabled impactful future planning across multiple hospital trust specialties and directorates.
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Empowering health and care workers to practise Population Health Management
Population Health Management (PHM) is a valuable technique and key priority for the NHS. It can be used across complex health and care systems to maximise health from available resources and address inequalities in a ...
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Bringing together people and analytics to make impactful changes
When healthcare pathways cross multiple organisations, how do we identify the most impactful places to direct resources? The Smarter Spending in Population Health (SSPH) programme, brings together stakeholders from across systems and inputs their insights ...
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Improving Population Health Management through bespoke training
As NHS Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire (BNSSG) ICS went through a restructuring, it recognised the opportunity to improve interaction between analysts and decision makers to better deliver Population Health Management (PHM). ICS leaders ...
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Informing better healthcare policy for an ageing population
With an ageing population in the UK, healthcare providers are increasingly having to plan and deliver care and treatments for elderly patients with multiple ongoing conditions. But which patient groups are most at risk? How ...
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Generating insights on the evolution of HIV care with the Terrence Higgins Trust
How do you analyse and understand eight years of valuable HIV online forum history while preserving the anonymity of the online members? The Health Economics Unit worked with Terrence Higgins Trust (a British charity that ...
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Developing new cancer endpoints to improve patient care
The Health Economics Unit collaborated with Janssen, The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) and DATA-CAN: The Health Data Research UK Hub for Cancer to understand not only if cancer treatments work to save ...
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Using MCDA to evaluate robotic surgery in the NHS
The Health Economics Unit was funded by the Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit (MLCSU) to explore the use of multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) to evaluate the economic implications of robotic surgery in the NHS, ...
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Economic Modelling for Peripheral Arterial Disease in England and Wales
Peripheral arterial disease is a common condition, affecting around 20% of people over 60, where a build-up of fatty deposits in the arteries restricts blood supply to leg muscles. Chronic limb threatening ischaemia (CLTI) is a severe ...
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Management and Supervision Tool (MaST) in the community mental health service at Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Introduction and aims The Health Economics Unit was asked by the Innovation Agency North West Coast to evaluate the use of the Management and Supervision Tool (MaST) in the community mental health service at Mersey ...
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Developing a dashboard to help drive improvement in cancer screening in the Midlands
The NHS Long Term Plan sets out ambitious targets for cancer care, intended to drive an improvement in cancer survival rates and increase early diagnosis. Across England there are 21 Cancer Alliances, which bring together clinical ...
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Assessing the budget impact of toric lens surgery in the NHS
A toric lens is a type of intraocular contact lens (IOL) that can be implanted during cataract surgery to improve long distance vision and correct astigmatism, reducing a patient’s reliance on glasses. HEU was ...
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Using a population health management tool to improve health outcomes for patients
Data analysts for Herefordshire & Worcestershire General Practice recognised they did not have a good way of understanding the population or who or what sits within it. Since October 2021, they have been working with executive ...
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