The diagram below shows me at my most cynical. It is from a (light-hearted…) session that I ran many, many moons ago, where I was trying to describe the environment for evaluation that can be created by high-profile NHS programmes.

The Strategy Unit is proud to support early-career analysts that help widen access to data science and strengthen diversity in the field. This summer, we welcomed Ashionye Aninze, through the Health Data Science Black Internship Programme, where she worked with our modelling team on a project to make the New Hospital Programme demand model more accessible.

Our analysis and stakeholder engagement supported NHS England to develop the national Ethnicity Recording Improvement Plan.

Our role in supporting the national effort to turn the vision of neighbourhood health into action by providing evidence, analysis and insight.

An evidence review on the challenges and disparities faced by individuals living with cancer alongside other long-term conditions.

I must be an unpleasant creature to share a room with. I snore. I smell. And I’m seemingly addicted to my way of doing things.

Knowing this, I booked two single rooms for me and a friend to go walking in the Peak District. For reasons that remain obscure, the app I used to make the booking failed. We ended up sharing a horrifyingly intimate, and mutually disturbing, twin room.

Relational continuity of care, the extent to which patients have an ongoing relationship with a specific clinician in their GP practice, is perhaps one of the most well researched aspects of primary care service delivery.