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The study findings from our Department of Health policy pilots project were presented at a Centre for History in Public Health seminar.
Toby Eccles, Development Director at Social Finance, was speaking to Jack O’Sullivan following his keynote presentation at the PIRU event, ‘Payment-for-performance: incentivising quality in public services,’ on 19 February 2013 at LSHTM.
One aspect of payment-for-performance in public services is the debate about performance-related pay (PRP).
An article describing several examples of how national clinical databases have been used to evaluate meso- and macro-level policies was published in Health Policy.
Preliminary findings from our policy pilots project were presented at a seminar at the Department of Health.
For the Department of Health, PIRU investigated policy needs for simulation and modelling of social care service innovations, and looked at the extent of modelling expertise available in the UK.
We can surely only get healthier, it would seem, when the public sector, academics and voluntary organisations team up with the food, drinks and leisure sectors to promote healthy living. That’s the claim behind the Government’s Public Health Responsibility Deal.
PIRU provided two guidance notes to the Department of Health on issues to do with evaluating the DRW pilots, one in 2011, the other in 2012.
With the Government’s White Paper on Social Care expected soon, all eyes are turned to an area of just a few hundred square metres in Westminster.
This scoping review was carried out by PIRU in order to support the development of the evaluation of the Public Health Responsibility Deal in England.
We know that health services need a shake-up. How else can we meet ever increasing demand while holding down costs and improving quality and productivity? But shake-ups, involving novel combinations of technology, services and infrastructure, can do a lot of damage - and still fail to achieve their goals.
This is the final report from our horizon scanning exercise to anticipate new challenges facing the health care system over the next 5 years and to provide guidance on areas where there is a need for further research.
This is our report: “Non-drug treatments for symptoms in dementia: an overview of systematic reviews of non-pharmacological interventions in the management of neuropsychiatric symptoms and challenging behaviours in patients with dementia”.
The recent Department of Health report, ‘Innovation, Health and Wealth’ tells an intriguing story about the potential economic benefits of the NHS. It goes further than rehearsing how it helps to develop a healthy, productive and economically active population.
PIRU provided two guidance notes to the Department of Health on issues to do with evaluating the DRW pilots, one in 2011, the other in 2012.