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? […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

12 July 2024

Sharing our Population Health Management expertise internationally

As one of the leading theorists and practitioners of Population Health Management in the UK, the Health Economics Unit’s Andi Orlowski was invited by the World Health Organization(WHO)to share his […]

9 July 2024

A HEUristic approach to STEM

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 […]

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 […]

21 June 2024

Bringing together experts to better understand Impactibility

Used correctly Impactibilty is a hugely impactful population health management technique, with potential to reduce health inequalities and lower the risk of poor outcomes for patients. As it has gone […]

12 June 2024

Join our passionate team – Senior Data Engineer opportunity

Are you a data engineer with a passion for making a difference in healthcare? Here at the Health Economics Unit (HEU) we’re looking for outstanding individuals to join our brilliant […]

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 […]

17 May 2024

The HEU goes back to school

Calculating the date of your death is not your average school maths lesson, but when Health Economics Unit Director Andi Orlowski was invited to give a talk to London students, […]

26 April 2024

What we learned at the Digital Healthcare Show

The Health Economics Unit team was excited to be invited to present our work and insights at the Digital Healthcare Show, but what did we learn while we were there? […]

19 April 2024

Join the HEU team at the Digital Healthcare Show

At the Health Economics Unit we are passionate about driving change in healthcare through digital tech, data, innovation and transformation. That is why we’re excited to be sharing our work, […]

3 January 2024

New Years Opportunities with the Health Economics Unit

Join the Health Economics Unit as a temporary contractor or full time team member. See the latest opportunities here.

20 July 2023

Registrations open for award-shortlisted Population Health Management training

Registration is now open for three free training courses offering a comprehensive introduction to Population Health Management (PHM) and health economics and evaluation. With training options available for both absolute […]

30 June 2023

In Conversation With… podcast Pride special

The Health Economics Unit are proud supporters of Pride, and we work as a team to encourage diversity, equality and inclusiveness in all that we do. In the run up […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

6 March 2023

Evaluating robotic surgery in the NHS

With advancements in technology offering increasingly versatile options for use of robotic surgery in the NHS, it’s important that we understand the potential impact these techniques could have for the […]

3 March 2023

Join our team – Lead Health Economist

***READVERTISEMENT*** We are looking for someone that is passionate, kind and enthusiastic about using data to transform healthcare to join us as a Lead Health Economist (Band 8a). Applications are now […]

23 January 2023

HEU Lead Health Economist

***READVERTISED*** The application process has closed. We are currently reviewing applications. We are hiring a passionate and forward-thinking Lead Health Economist (Band 8a) for a fixed-term contract to 1 April […]

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 […]

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 […]

17 January 2023

The role of health economics and a framework for resource allocation in PHM

The Health Economics Unit, in partnership with the Midlands Decision Support Network, have been working with the team at Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) on Population Health Management […]

22 November 2022

Population health management: How systems work together

This online training session during day 3 of Insight 2022 brings together Population Health Management experts Andi Orlowski, of the Health Economics Unit, and Sally Markwell of Oxford Brookes,  to look at the underlying […]

7 November 2022

How to look at data

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 […]

21 October 2022

A career defining summer?

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 […]

17 October 2022

Bridging the ‘Goldacre Gap’ – new development on AnalystX to focus on population health management data and analytics

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 […]

13 October 2022

HEU Lead Data Scientist

We are hiring a creative and passionate Lead Data Scientist (Band 8a) The application deadline is currently 31 October 2022. You’ll have experience working in a big data environment, deploying […]

16 June 2022

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

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 Helsinki, Finland, […]

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 […]

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 […]

30 March 2022

Matt Grek on why we publish

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 […]

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 […]

7 February 2022

Andi Orlowski becomes AphA president

Announcing the appointment of Andi Orlowski as President of the Association of professional healthcare analysts (AphA) for the period January 2022 to December 2022. Andi, who formally took the post […]

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 […]

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 […]

5 January 2022

HEU hiring Senior Health Economist

This vacancy has now closed.  Thanks to all who expressed an interest in our Senior Health Economist role. More information about how to join us. We are the Health Economics […]

27 December 2021

HEU Chief Analyst recruitment

This vacancy has now closed.  Thanks to all who expressed an interest in our Chief Analyst role. More information about how to join us. ***We were hiring for a brand […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

25 October 2021

NHS-R Conference 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 takes place […]