Outputs

Use the filter below to find what you're looking for:

Presentation
April 2013

Policy Pilots and Evaluation: History and Policy Seminar

The study findings from our Department of Health policy pilots project were presented at a Centre for History in Public Health seminar.

Blog
February 2013

Payment by results – a route to social policy innovation in nervous, cash-strapped times

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.

Blog
February 2013

Be pragmatic: ask not ‘whether’ but ‘how’ to adopt public sector performance-related pay

One aspect of payment-for-performance in public services is the debate about performance-related pay (PRP).

Article
February 2013

Use of national clinical databases for informing and for evaluating health care policies

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.

Presentation
February 2013

Department of Health policy pilots: how the purpose of piloting matters for evaluation and learning

Preliminary findings from our policy pilots project were presented at a seminar at the Department of Health.

Article
October 2012

Modelling capacity in social care

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.

Blog
September 2012

The Responsibility Deal – Supersized Health Promotion

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.

Article
May 2012

Drug recovery wing (DRW) pilot study: Guidance note 2012

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.

Blog
April 2012

Forging social care policy amid the white heat of a White Paper

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.

Publication
April 2012

Scoping review of evaluations of voluntary Agreements between government and business

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.

Blog
April 2012

Desperately seeking the Steve Jobs of healthcare modelling

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.

Publication
March 2012

Potential research priorities arising from proposals for NHS reforms in England

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.

Publication
March 2012

Alternatives to the use of antipsychotic medication for dementia patients

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”.

Blog
February 2012

Too much spin can seriously damage the health of spin-offs

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.

Article
December 2011

Drug recovery wing (DRW) pilot study: Guidance note 2011

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.