Expert elicitation exercise commissioned by and in collaboration with the Health Foundation has produced forecasts of NHS productivity rates over the next 10 years.

Our evaluation of the Health Equity Payment (HEP) scheme in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland highlights how flexible, needs-based GP funding can support more equitable care.

The Heart Failure Targeted Funding Programme was an NHS England initiative to improve access to heart failure specialists in the community and during a hospital admission. Over £4.4 million was invested in services nationally. This report is an evaluation of the programme.

What are the opportunities to shift activity from hospital to community? Our analysis provides an evidence-based place to start.

This scoping report explores the health inequalities experienced by people on probation and the limited data on their health needs and engagement with health services. It sets out recommendations for commissioning and delivering a national health needs assessment to address that data gap and support local health needs assessments for the probation population.

The report below is from a short project that explored a simple set of questions:

Are there ways of spotting poor analysis that don’t rely upon technical knowledge? 

Are there ‘rules of thumb’ that could orient decision makers – who typically don’t have analytical expertise - when thinking about the likely reliability of quantitative analysis? 

How might decision makers know when a more detailed, and specialist, review of technical work is needed? Can their intuitions be primed?

Being commissioned by the Mayor of London to produce independent reviews of proposals for major service change, affecting Londoners, perfectly aligns with our commitment to help the health and care system make better decisions and ultimately achieve benefits for population health and wellbeing.