Moving beyond bean counting
This project is aiming to improve analytical capabilities within health visiting, with a focus on data around missing children. Through national scoping and a pilot at the trust, this project will pro...
Good quality analysis and the ability to use information effectively is an essential element in any learning health care system. Analysis can help shape care for individual patients as well as informing decisions for services or across organisations and health systems.
The Health Foundation’s Advancing Applied Analytics programme aims to improve analytical capability in support of health and care services.
We are looking to support analysts who are working on local innovative and ambitious projects that can demonstrate how they will improve analytical capability in support of health and care services and provide lessons for the wider care system.
In the fourth round of this programme we have £750,000 of funding to support up to 12 good quality projects that:
We are willing to consider applications on a broad range of topics, provided these can demonstrate how they will lead to improvements in analytical capability. We are interested in projects that address the capability deficiencies we identified in our report Understanding analytical capability in health care. For example:
For this round, we are especially interested:
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For the first time, this fourth round of the Advancing Applied Analytics programme will be supported by NHSX. NHSX is leading the largest digital health and social care transformation programme in the world and aims to drive digital, analytical and tech maturity in local NHS organisations in order to improve care.
By supporting the Advancing Applied Analytics programme NHSX is focusing on these aims and on innovation in the NHS. NHSX will contribute to the selection process by nominating assessors to take part, alongside many other external stakeholders from across the UK and colleagues that act as peer reviewers. NHSX will also offer support to successful projects to facilitate sustained improvement and spread of innovation across health and social care.
The Health Foundation will continue to lead and manage each project with the same approach as all previous rounds and will be responsible for final selection of successful projects.
Further information can be found on the NHSX website.
Outputs of projects funded by the Advancing Applied Analytics programme can be found in an open document resource developed and maintained by This Equals. This Equals helps organisations and citizens improve how they work with data and technology. This open document is a resource for analysts and data scientists working in the health and care sector to learn about and share different tools and resources. It can be found here.
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Project aiming to accurately forecast length of stay of inpatients at the trust and to predict patient flow. Using machine learning, a digital dashboard will be developed to allow clinicians to see wh...
Aiming to improve patient flow and safety in the trust’s intensive care unit by providing staff with the information they need to make data-driven decisions about clinical care and capacity. A reporti...
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This project will involve developing, testing and implementing an analytical tool that will forecast medicine demand and support inventory management practice.
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