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Helping the NHS use data better to improve patient care
Data can be used to improve health care in myriad ways, from better operational decisions, to quality improvement, commissioning, policymaking and public debate.
Seeing the big picture: how data analytics can drive change across health and care
Sarah Dougan is Chief Analytical Officer at London Borough of Islington, where she leads a partnership project funded by the Health Foundation that’s developing an innovative linked dataset between th...
Data Linkage: joining up the dots to improve patient care
Despite the scale of the data collected by the NHS it is often not linked together in helpful ways, so we don’t always have the full information we need to know how to improve a patient’s care.
Varying views on NHS provision of care by generation
February 2015 chart of the month. In our joint report with NatCen Social Research on the British Social Attitudes Survey 2014 we looked at the extent to which people’s attitudes vary by age. This char...
3 ways we’re helping to build data analytics capability
Here are three ways the Health Foundation is helping to support the use of data and the work of analysts, to improve quality of care.
Why before-and-after analyses can give misleading results
If you want to know if a change in care makes a difference to patients’ outcomes, it seems logical to compare these patients’ outcomes before and after they received the intervention. This kind of eva...
Variation in productivity of hospitals from 2009/10 to 2013/14
April 2015 chart of the month. The data show that variation in productivity among acute hospitals changed little between 2009/10 to 2013/14. Significant variations of productivity between trusts sugge...
Launching 2020: the Marmot Review 10 Years On
We have commissioned the IHE to work on an analysis of health inequalities in England and update of the Marmot Review to be published in February 2020, on the 10-year anniversary of the Marmot Review.
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