6 November 2024
What is PHM? Baby don’t hurt me
With a health system increasingly under pressure for immediate improvements, how do we find time for valuable Population Health Management (PHM) analysis to generate impactful impacts for the long term? […]
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29 October 2024
Bringing experts together to understand the future of Population Health Management
As the UK government looks to define the next 10 years of health and care, how can we better understand the need of our population? How can we understand where […]
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18 October 2024
Is there really only one way to become an analyst?
Is it ever too late to become an analyst? Are analytical skills all that you need? Is there only one career path to getting there? The brilliant Sophie Hodges joined […]
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8 August 2024
Preserving information from a vital HIV support community
The Health Economics Unit was proud to have their work with the Terrence Higgins Trust featured at AIDS 2024, the 25th annual AIDS conference, in July. Lead Client Service Manager […]
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25 July 2024
Sharing our impactful work at HACA 2024
Just one year after its inception, the Health and Care Analytics conference (HACA) has become an essential opportunity to share outstanding work, hear from brilliant speakers and meet incredible people […]
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9 July 2024
At the Health Economics Unit collaboration is one of our core values, and one loud and proud example of this is our team band, The HEUristics. Covering songs ranging from […]
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3 July 2024
Marching for equality at Pride in London
Inclusivity and equality are core to our ways of working at the Health Economics Unit, and we don’t just talk the talk, we walk the walk – quite literally last […]
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6 June 2024
Why we support Pride at the Health Economics Unit
This Pride Month members of the Health Economics Unit (HEU) team will be joining marchers in London for the second year running, coming together to celebrate LGBTQ+ culture and demonstrate […]
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12 April 2023
Speakers announced for first Health and Care Analytics conference
We’re excited to reveal the first expert speakers who will be appearing at July’s national Health and Care Analytics conference. Including leading figures from the UK’s response to the Coronavirus […]
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4 April 2023
Online training collaboration nominated for prestigious award
The Health Economics Unit and the Midlands Decision Support Network are proud to be shortlisted for an HSJ Digital Award for their Population Health Management online training. The HSJ Digital […]
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3 April 2023
Smarter Spending in Population Health: A first year of insights
The Smarter Spending in Population Health (SSPH) programme puts healthcare analytics into the hands of the people delivering and receiving treatment and services, empowering them to make impactful changes. After […]
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13 March 2023
Integrated Care Systems- the Great Expectation?
In this guest blog post, Sally Markwell, senior lecturer within the Oxford School of Nursing and Midwifery (Oxford Brookes University), explores how working together across Integrated Care Systems moves us […]
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20 January 2023
Helping analysts to drive better decisions
Equipped with a range of tools and techniques, an analyst can support better decision making, and ultimately drive better health outcomes… But how do we achieve this? As part of […]
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20 January 2023
HEU online training series – Health Economics
As part of the Health Economics Unit’s recent training programme on population health management with Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) we ran several interactive online sessions on the […]
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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. However, faced […]
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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 summer working […]
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17 October 2022
With the launch of the Population Health Data and Analytics Centre of Excellence (PHDA CoE), AnalystX* has created the first comprehensive curriculum for health and care data professionals and analysts […]
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15 June 2022
AphA mentorship programme aims to strengthen analyst community
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 AphA’s professionalisation […]
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16 May 2022
Why population health is the future
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 populations to […]
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30 March 2022
In our ever-pulsating digital world, it feels like there is infinite shelf space for more and more content. In this blog Matt Grek explains the Health Economics Unit approach to […]
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23 February 2022
Data linkage: the missing link for population health management
A new ‘Guide to data linkage’ has been published by NHS England, aimed at anyone involved in the planning and delivery of health and care, from GP practices and secondary […]
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21 January 2022
Population Health Finance: Why allocative efficiency should be embedded in NHS finance processes
One of the key principles in economics is scarcity. There is not enough resource to meet all needs. As healthcare professionals, we can all recognise this theory. Given scarcity exists […]
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14 January 2022
Bridging the Impactibility Gap: New Review Published
The Health Economics Unit (HEU) has published a new BMJ Open paper exploring how Impactibility can bridge the gap in population health management. The paper details a systematic review of […]
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21 December 2021
NECCTAR – a year of making a difference in critical care
As the North East London Critical Care Transfer And Retrieval (NECCTAR) Service approaches the end of its first year of operation, the country is once again facing a COVID level […]
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16 December 2021
Levelling up for the future: the impact of COVID on cancer care
Andi Orlowski, Director at the Health Economics Unit (HEU), and his colleague Heather Humphreys joined DATA-CAN’s James Peach, Deborah Lancaster (former Head of Market Access, Novartis UK) and Heather Moses […]
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13 December 2021
PULSE PCN insights Winter 2021
In April 2021 PULSE magazine launched PULSE PCN as a the new hub containing information for primary care network clinical directors. They’ve just interviewed Andi Orlowski for the Winter 2021 […]
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10 December 2021
And the winner is… causal inference!
This year’s Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences has been awarded today, with Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens being recognised for their contributions to the analysis of causal relationships. Here Bruno […]
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19 November 2021
Using Directed Acyclic Graphs to understand cause and effect
In the summer the Health Economic Unit’s expert senior econometrician Bruno Petrungaro had the opportunity to speak to participants of the Midlands Decision Support Network’s quasi-experimental approaches ALS about Directed Acyclic […]
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12 November 2021
How the Aristotle portal helps health leaders put data to ‘the best purpose’
Population health management is a core principle of our work at the Health Economics Unit (HEU) and we are proud to be able to collaborate with and support innovators at […]
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10 November 2021
Meet Rayne: Making a Difference to Healthcare
At the Health Economics Unit (HEU) we are proud of our passionate team of experts, who have an incredible range of skills and experience. But we know that our people […]
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22 September 2021
How to incorporate data scientists into the workforce
What role can data scientists and analysts play in the workforce of our healthcare systems and how can they work effectively alongside clinicians and operational managers? These were subjects that […]
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10 September 2021
How population health analytics can influence change
As the NHS braces itself for a surge of patients who have been putting their health issues to one side during the COVID-19 pandemic, what can be done to target […]
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3 September 2021
Expert Machine Learning Course for ICS Analysts
Integrated Care System (ICS) analysts are being offered the opportunity to learn today’s most in-demand machine learning skills from experts. The course, which would usually cost analysts £1,470 to attend, […]
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31 August 2021
Professor Gwyn Bevan on the STAR approach
Professor Gwyn Bevan has been instrumental in the development of the STAR (Socio-technical allocation of resource) approach to allocative efficiency. Health Economics Unit (HEU) director Andi Orlowski recently had the […]
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23 August 2021
Bruno Petrungaro, Senior Econometrician, lead for machine learning training via the AnalystX platform on the FutureNHS Collaboration site, shares knowledge and best practice on building a predictive model. There tends […]
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19 August 2021
HEU responds to government’s new data strategy
On 23 June 2021, the UK government published a draft of its new national data strategy: Data saves lives: reshaping health and social care with data. Given that the main […]
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16 August 2021
It’s all about creating collaboration…
In recent months, the Health Economics Unit (HEU) has been supporting Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust on developing a case for the long-term provision of cleaners, porters and catering staff […]
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12 August 2021
COVID-19 and cancer: Our opportunity to maximise recovery in the NHS and beyond
Andi Orlowski, Director at the Health Economics Unit (HEU), presented at the HSJ National Cancer Virtual Forum on 8 April 2021. It was one of a series of HSJ webinars that […]
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9 August 2021
Real-world data as an effective response to COVID pressures in critical care
Jonathon Dean, Critical Care Hub doctor from Barts Health NHS Trust, is a member of the North East London Critical Care Hub, a group created in response to COVID. Here, […]
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5 August 2021
Launching the AnalystX machine learning community
Bruno Petrungaro, senior econometrician, describes the launch of the new AnalystX machine learning space on the FutureNHS Collaboration Platform. In March 2021, Julia Wilkins and I gave a talk online […]
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2 August 2021
Working together is crucial to tackle wider determinants
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 for local authority leaders in […]
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30 July 2021
Using data to help fight high stroke rates in Hounslow
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 hospital admissions […]
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9 July 2021
Population health management: the time is now
We are always delighted to collaborate with our brilliant partners. We recently joined forces with colleagues from Novartis UK and NHS Nottingham & Nottinghamshire CCG on an article for the […]
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29 June 2021
HEU supports NHS knowledge sharing on an international scale
Anthony Anandan, an experienced life sciences and healthcare consultant, recently supported HEU in bringing together a team of NHS experts to deliver workshops on payment systems, tariffs, and value for […]
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28 June 2021
Embracing digital data is key to bring health products to market
Adopting a forward-thinking approach to digital technology – and the opportunities it offers for data collection – will become increasingly vital for companies looking to see their products incorporated by […]
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7 June 2021
Shining a light on the NHS data analytics ‘stockpile of awesomeness’
Andi Orlowski of the Health Economics Unit (HEU) and the Association of Professional Healthcare Analysts (AphA) recently joined John McConnell on the ‘Fika: The Leadership’ podcast. The podcast features contributors […]
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1 June 2021
Six months of the Health Economics Unit
Launched in October 2020 the Health Economics Unit supports health system and industry leaders to make evidence-based decisions when it comes to designing services to best meet the needs of […]
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25 May 2021
Developing collaboration between the NHS and industry partners
It’s no secret the NHS needs industry to develop innovation, but industry must understand the needs of the NHS in order to provide solutions. Head of Data and Analytics Julia […]
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13 May 2021
Investigating why patients stop taking their lifesaving medication for atrial fibrillation
A recent systematic review into oral anticoagulation therapy (OAC) for atrial fibrillation has shown that more investigation is needed into the reasons why a high number of patients stop taking […]
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30 April 2021
KID and KeRNEL: integrated data resources for health and care research
The Health Economics Unit (HEU) is working with the integrated data team that works collaboratively across Kent and Medway to promote and facilitate access to its extensive integrated dataset for […]
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