The NHS Health Check in England: an evaluation of the first 4 years

"NHS Health Check coverage was lower than expected but showed year-on-year improvement. Newly identified comorbidities were an important feature of the NHS Health Checks. Statin treatment at national scale for 1 in 5 attendees at highest CVD risk is likely to have contributed to important reductions in their CVD events."

The NHS Health Check in England: an evaluation of the first 4 years
J Robson, et al.
BMJ Open, 2016, 6:e008840

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Focus on: A&E attendances

"We explored a range of factors thought to be contributing to increased pressure on A&E in the English NHS and tested whether recent changes in these factors could explain the current pressures observed in the system."

QualityWatch: Focus on: A&E attendances: Why are patients waiting longer?
I Blunt
Nuffield Trust, The Health Foundation
July 2014

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Tool providing information on inequalities in life expectancy

"Public Health England's Segment Tool provides information on inequalities in life expectancy at local authority level. This tool should help local authorities identify causes of death that contribute most to their life expectancy gaps and, therefore, enable them to target interventions appropriately."

Access the tool here.

Predicting primary health care costs with measures of morbidity and multimorbidity

"In this paper we investigate the relationship between patients’ primary care costs (consultations, tests, drugs) and their age, gender, deprivation and alternative measures of their morbidity and
multimorbidity."

Keep it simple? Predicting primary health care costs with measures of morbidity and multimorbidity
CHE Research Paper 72
SL Brilleman, H Gravelle, S Hollinghurst, S Purdy, C Salisbury, F Windmeijer
University of York Centre for Health Economics
December 2011

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