Health economics: evidence resource

The "Health economics evidence resource" provides a summary of economic evidence underpinning public health interventions.The tool shows the key cost-effectiveness and return on investment evidence on activities in the public health grant.

Access the tool here.

Decommissioning health care

"Decommissioning – defined as the planned process of removing, reducing or replacing health-care services – is an important component of current reforms in the NHS. This study aims to formulate theoretically grounded, evidence-informed guidance to support best practice in effective decommissioning of NHS services. Decommissioning is shaped by change management and implementation, evidence and information, and relationships and politics. We propose an expanded understanding, encompassing organisational and political factors, of how avoidance of loss affects the delivery of decommissioning programmes. Future work should explore the relationships between contexts, mechanisms and outcomes in decommissioning, develop the understanding of how loss affects decisions and explore the long-term impact of decommissioning and its impact on patient care and outcomes."

Decommissioning health care: identifying best practice through primary and secondary research a prospective mixed-methods study
I Williams, J Harlock, G Robert, R Mannion, S Brearley, K Hall
Health Services and Delivery Research, 2017, 5:22

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Bridging the gap between research and the frontline NHS

"Since 2008, CLAHRCs have conducted a range of innovative research studies leading to improved outcomes for patients, better and more cost-effective services and challenge health inequalities nationally. Alongside that, CLAHRCs engaged in innovative capacity development work with NHS partners, running courses in research, evaluation and implementation of the latest evidence."

World class research making a difference: Bridging the gap between research and the frontline NHS
National Institute for Health Research
September 2015

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A 'one-stop shop' for research evidence about health systems

"Researchers and research funding agencies can use Health Systems Evidence to identify gaps in the current stock of research evidence and domains that could benefit from primary research, systematic reviews, and review overviews."

Developing and refining the methods for a 'one-stop shop' for research evidence about health systems
JN Lavis, et al.
Health Research Policy and Systems, 2015, 13:10

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Evidence for success: the guide to getting evidence and using it

"This guide aims to provide easy to follow, step-by-step guidance and resources to support organisations to use evidence to influence policy and practice."

Evidence for success: the guide to getting evidence and using it
Knowledge Translation Network
August 2014

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The NHS payment system: evolving policy and emerging evidence

"But the payment system for NHS-funded services is in need of reform to support a health system that meets the needs of an ageing population, with growing prevalence of multiple chronic diseases, in the context of tightly constrained resources."

The NHS payment system: evolving policy and emerging evidence
L Marshall, A Charlesworth, J Hurst
Nuffield Trust
February 2014

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Social media and public policy

"This report considers whether social media data can improve the quality and timeliness of the evidence base that informs public policy."

Social media and public policy: What is the evidence?
J Leavey
Alliance for Useful Evidence
September 2013

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A realist review of interventions and strategies to promote evidence-informed healthcare

"Though effectiveness evidence is weak, change agent roles are evolving, as is the literature, which requires more detailed description of interventions, outcomes measures, the context, intensity, and levels at which interventions are implemented in order to understand how change agent interventions effect evidence-informed health care."

A realist review of interventions and strategies to promote evidence-informed healthcare: a focus on change agency
B McCormack, J Rycroft-Malone, K DeCorby, AM Hutchinson, T Bucknall, B Kent, A Schultz, E Snelgrove-Clarke, C Stetler, M Titler, L Wallin, V Wilson
Implementation Science, 2013, 8:107

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Research for universal health coverage

"Universal health coverage, with full access to high-quality services for health promotion, prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, palliation and financial risk protection, cannot be achieved without evidence from research."

Research for universal health coverage
World Health Organization
August 2013

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What should the 'what works network' do?

"This short paper recommends five ways that the What Works centres can ensure that they maximise their impact, and avoid the mistakes of past evidence initiatives, which were often overly focused on supply rather than demand and use, and on academic research to the exclusion of other types of evidence."

What should the 'what works network' do?
R Puttick, G Mulgan
Nesta
May 2013

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What counts as good evidence?

"Research data only really become information when they have the power to change views, and they only really become evidence when they attract advocates for the messages they contain."

What counts as good evidence?
S Nutley, A Powell, H Davies
Research Unit for Research Utilisation
University of St Andrews
November 2012

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Standards of evidence for impact investing

"The Standards of Evidence recognise the need to ensure that demand for evidence is appropriate for different stages of product of service development, that it doesn't hamper innovation, and that it is realistic and proportionate."

Standards of evidence for impact investing
R Puttick, J Ludlow
NESTA
October 2012

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Facilitating the use of research evidence

"Facilitating the use of research is the topic of a newly published virtual issue of The Milbank Quarterly. The issue includes, in chronological order, twenty-two articles and two commentaries that were published in the Quarterly between 2001 and 2011."

Facilitating the use of research evidence
Milbank Quarterly - 2011 Milbank Memorial Fund
Edited by Bradford H. Gray
2011

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Evaluation of a "full-serve" evidence service for policy makers

"Health-system policy makers need timely access to synthesised research evidence to inform the policy-making process."

Effects of an evidence service on health system policymakers' use of research evidence: A protocol for a randomized controlled trial
JN Lavis, MG Wilson, JM Grimshaw, RB Haynes, S Hanna, P Raina, R Gruen, M Ouimet
Implementation Science 2011, 6:51

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