We provide evidence to inform policy on health and social care systems and commissioning to maximise outcomes for service users

Featured projects

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Commissioning & service delivery

The Place Project: Delivering integrated neighbourhood services – understanding commissioning and service design within places

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System design, governance & accountability

Provider Collaboratives: What are the purposes and aims of provider collaboratives?

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System finance & economics

Bending the Spend: What prevents commissioners from spending more on out-of-hospital care?

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Latest outputs

Blogs
February 2025

Experimenting with policy and with policy evaluation

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Reports
December 2024

Effective commissioning for integrated service delivery at Place: what functions and structures does the literature suggest are required?

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Blogs
November 2024

Understanding the health policy landscape: our history, and what we've learnt

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Blogs
November 2024

Still early days? The development of Integrated Care Systems

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Reports
November 2024

The Architecture of System Management (2022-2023)

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Blogs
October 2024

What can we learn from the past? New policies, old lessons

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Blogs
September 2024

The National GP Worklife Survey returns

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Reports
November 2023

Financially Incentivising Quality Improvement Activity in Primary Care – Literature Review

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Reports
August 2023

User research into referrals to expert work and health services: Final Report of Phase 2 research

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Journal publications
February 2023

Developing architecture of system management in the English NHS: evidence from a qualitative study of three Integrated Care Systems

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Reports
January 2023

Community Nursing Services in England

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Journal publications
December 2022

Effects of chain ownership and private equity financing on quality in the English care home sector: retrospective observational study

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Reports
October 2022

PRUComm Research Review 2021/22

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Journal publications
September 2022

Evaluation of the introduction of QOF quality improvement modules in English general practice: early findings from a rapid, qualitative exploration of implementation

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Reports
July 2022

The Developing Architecture of System Management: Integrated Care Systems and Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships

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