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July 2013
Adult social care: summary of the research plans of the Department of Health
PIRU carried out a review of the research plans on adult social care funded by the Department of Health through its Policy Research Units or through the NIHR School for Social Care Research.
June 2013
The Responsibility Deal logic model
A diagram of the Responsibility Deal logic model.
May 2013
Voluntary agreements between government and business – with specific reference to the Public Health Responsibility Deal
An article about the scoping review was published in Health Policy.
April 2013
Challenges of payment-for-performance in public services – implications for health care
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
