Dorset Innovation Hub
This Hub will focus on supporting proven innovations and understanding their impact in the local context before they are scaled up, while ensuring that the sustainability of innovations is fully under...
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Manchester Innovation Hub
Led by Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, this Hub aims to improve health outcomes for the diverse population the Trust serves, using digital as the initial exemplar.
Bradford and Craven Innovation Hub
This Hub will focus on ageing well, and in particular anticipatory care, enhanced health in care homes, and urgent community response – as part of efforts to address the increasing health inequalities...
Developing data analytics to improve how social care is monitored and understood for those with the worst outcomes
This project aims to improve the quality of social care for cohorts of people that experience the worst outcomes. Using detailed data analytics, it will investigate the efficacy and reach of care that...
‘Careforce’ neighbourhood mapping – releasing time to care
This project aims to strengthen and add value to the contribution that analytics bring to improved effectiveness, efficiency and client outcomes. Will shape and present otherwise disparate data source...
Analysing quality of life for people with a learning disability using the Personal Outcome Scale
Project that is aiming to develop a better understanding of lived experience to identify what caring elements create the best possible quality of life for people with a learning disability.
Open tendering and open performance: making care and support accountable to those who give and those who receive care and support
Project that is aiming to demonstrate the value of quality, open data and show the impact that transparent and open tendering has on the quality of a social care service and the experience of people g...
Sharing adult social care workforce data across London to support operational and strategic commissioning decision-making
Project aiming to address workforce challenges by increasing the amount and quality of workforce data available to decision-makers, in particular commissioners of adult social care services.
Understanding and learning from the impact of changes in colorectal cancer care delivery in light of COVID-19 and their interplay with socioeconomic inequalities
Research to help understand the impact of changes in health service delivery on cancer care during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Understanding the impacts of income and welfare policy responses to COVID-19 on inequalities in mental health: a microsimulation model
Research to assess the potential impact of economic and welfare policy responses to COVID-19 on mental health and mental health inequalities, including who is impacted the most and what the likely con...
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