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Health and Healthcare Research

RAND Europe's growing health and healthcare portfolio brings together a multidisciplinary team with backgrounds in public health, health services research, clinical medicine, economics, psychology and systems design.

We work in close collaboration with the Health Services Research Group at Cambridge University through our Cambridge Centre for Health Services Research (CCHSR) to inform objective policymaking in the health and healthcare field in the UK, across the rest of Europe, and globally.

Featured Research

14 Sep 2018

Evaluating the Q Improvement Lab

RAND Europe and the University of Cambridge tested whether the Q Improvement Lab approach could become an effective, valuable way of developing ideas or interventions to support positive change at multiple levels of the health and care system.

Selected Research

Measuring employee engagement in the NHS

11 Oct 2018

Analysis of the NHS Healthy Workforce Survey and VitalityHealth’s Britain’s Healthiest Workplace survey found that staff engagement in the NHS is similar to other large UK employers with a similar demographic composition, and that demographic factors such as gender and age are associated with different levels of engagement.
Evaluating the Wellbeing Premium Programme

01 Oct 2018

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) often find it hard to invest in the health and wellbeing of their employees, or do not invest at all. Researchers are evaluating a randomised controlled trial of a financial incentive programme to improve employee health and wellbeing in SMEs in the West Midlands.
Evaluating the development of the Q initiative from 2016-2020

14 Sep 2018

RAND Europe is conducting a four-year, independent evaluation of the second phase of the Q Initiative to help guide the learning of the Q project team and wider stakeholders as they continue their implementation of Q across the UK. The research will support strategic decision-making and inform the ongoing design and management of Q and also assess the initiative's impact.
Research to aid the fight against cancer

07 Sep 2018

As part of the global fight against cancer, RAND Europe has led and collaborated on a number of studies exploring the impact of cancer research, the quality of care for cancer patients and the future outlook of different forms of cancer. Our findings and recommendations help inform future research, treatments and ultimately, care for cancer patients.
Societal impacts of treating breast cancer early

05 Sep 2018

Treating breast cancer early does not prevent its recurrence, but doing so can have implications for future research, policy, and practice. Researchers are exploring the evidence base on the broader health, societal and economic impacts from early breast cancer treatment and the wider costs to society of the progression of breast cancer.
Evaluating individual placement and support for alcohol and drug dependence

03 Sep 2018

IPS is an evidence-based programme that helps people with mental health challenges find employment. Public Health England is conducting a trial that expands the programme to help people in treatment for substance misuse. Our researchers are conducting a process evaluation of the trial.
Eastern AHSN Transformation Support Unit Shows Positive Impact

03 Aug 2018

Stakeholders and 'customers' say the Eastern Academic Health Science Network's TSU—which helps implement innovative solutions to challenges faced by health and care providers—has supported them with their pilots and network building. An evaluation provides recommendations for further improvements.
Research identifies promising practices in health and wellbeing at work

25 Jul 2018

Many health and wellbeing interventions are available to UK employers. Researchers graded them against Nesta standards and developed case studies of the most promising practices that support policy and organisational decision making.

Our Experts

Jon Sussex

Chief Economist

Jon Sussex is chief economist at RAND Europe and co-director of the Cambridge Centre for Health Services Research (a collaboration between RAND Europe and the Insitute of Public Health at the University of Cambridge). He has 30 years of experience in research and consultancy in the fields…
Sonja Marjanovic

Senior Research Leader

Sonja Marjanovic is a senior research leader in Innovation, Health and Science at RAND Europe and leads the innovation and society research cluster. She is a member of the Cambridge Centre for Health Services Research, a collaboration between RAND Europe and University of Cambridge, and RAND's…
Sarah Ball

Senior Analyst

Sarah Ball is a senior analyst at RAND Europe with a research focus on health and healthcare. In her time at RAND Europe, she has contributed to a range of research projects in the area of health services delivery, including NIHR funded studies on a ‘telephone first’…
Catherine A. Lichten

Senior Analyst

Catherine Lichten is a senior analyst at RAND Europe working primarily in areas related to science and health. Her RAND research projects have examined a range of topics related to research funding, research culture, and the interface of science and society. She also has…

Quoted

There's some research that shows that if you're a well-slept person you tend to be more productive on average which subsequently has a positive effect on your long-term earnings.
Marco Hafner

Senior Economist
Source: Marketplace/BBC World Service
A well-rested employee has a higher work rate, is more productive in that sense, is more motivated, and also more engaged.
Marco Hafner

Senior Economist
Source: BBC Radio 4
People who don't sleep enough are more likely to die at any given point in time. And that obviously reduces the labor supply of an economy. If people don't sleep enough they are less productive at work, which subsequently also has negative consequences for companies.
Marco Hafner

Senior Economist
Source: Marketplace Morning Report
The UK loses hundreds of thousands of working days due to insufficient sleep, costing the economy £40bn each year.
Marco Hafner

Senior Economist
Source: Financial Times
Later school start times are the one intervention that evidence has shown could make a demonstrable impact on reducing the epidemic of teen sleep deprivation. We need good parenting and we need good policy.
Wendy M. Troxel

Senior Behavioral and Social Scientist
Source: WGN-AM
The impact of tiny investments can be dramatic. A 1 percentage point increase in social spending would add up to 16 million additional years of life across the whole U.S. population.
Alex Sutherland

Research Leader
Source: Politico
Independent of whether you need a bit more sleep or a bit less sleep, anything below six hours a night for the normal person is associated with negative consequences in terms of health and productivity.
Marco Hafner

Senior Economist
Source: BBC World Service
One of the things that came out quite strongly in the [Healthiest Workplace] survey are some significant mental health concerns in Malaysia, with about 1 in 6, 1 in 7 of the respondents reporting back to us that they might have symptoms of anxiety disorder or depression.
Christian Van Stolk

Vice President, RAND Europe
Source: BFM 89.9