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Blog
September 2014

Let’s be honest that pilots are not just about testing: they’re also about engineering the politics of change

There is more to policy piloting than evaluation – piloting is a policy tool in itself, not only a means for conducting research, says Stefanie Ettelt.

Blog
September 2014

Follow Africa’s lead in meticulous evaluation of P4P schemes for healthcare

Working with researchers to evaluate the introduction of financial incentives in developed healthcare economies would yield vital knowledge, explains Mylene Lagarde.

Publication
August 2014

Health econometric evaluation of the effects of a continuous treatment: a machine learning approach

A working paper on the use of machine learning for estimating the effects of continuous treatments was published by the University of York.

Publication
July 2014

Healthy Outlook evaluation

PIRU evaluated the extent to which Healthy Outlook reduced hospital admissions and mortality. The results were published in the Journal of Public Health.

Blog
July 2014

Don’t ditch evaluations just because pilots are hitch-free

PIRU’s experience with the ‘Choice of GP Practice Pilot’ suggests the need for continuing independent evaluation of policy roll-outs.

Presentation
April 2014

Policy piloting as policy learning: The elusive objective

A presentation on our Department of Health policy pilots study was given at the UK Evaluation Society Annual Evaluation Conference.

Reports
April 2014

Integrated care and support Pioneers: Indicators for measuring the quality of integrated care: Final report

This is the final report on candidate indicators and data sources for measuring the performance of the Pioneers.

Press release
March 2014

Choice of GP practice pilot most popular with young commuters and patients moving home

A pilot scheme allowing patients to visit GPs outside the area they live in was most popular among younger commuters and people who had moved house but did not want to change their GP, according to a new report by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

Presentation
March 2014

Evaluation of the choice of GP practice pilot, 2012/13

Results from our General Practice Choice Pilot Evaluation were presented at a Public Policy Exchange conference in March 2014.

Reports
March 2014

Evaluation of Direct Payments in Residential Care Trailblazers: Preliminary report

This scoping study was published in March 2014. The final report of the evaluation was published in 2017.

Reports
March 2014

Evaluation of the choice of GP practice pilot, 2012-13: Final report

The final report of the evaluation was provided to the Department of Health and NHS England in March 2014. The report is in two volumes: 1) the main report and 2) appendices.

Reports
March 2014

Evaluation of the choice of GP practice pilot, 2012-13: Final report appendices

The final report of the evaluation was provided to the Department of Health and NHS England in March 2014. The report is in two volumes: 1) the main report and 2) appendices.

Presentation
December 2013

Policy experiments: Trade-off between rigour and relevance?

A presentation on our Department of Health policy pilots study was given at the Social Research Association Annual Conference.

Publication
November 2013

Assessment of the implementation of the National Cold Weather Plan for England

An article of the Cold Weather Plan evaluation was published in The Lancet.

Publication
September 2013

How the NHS will look in 2030

An article for our NHS futures: Twenty-Thirty evaluation was published in HSJ.