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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

16 Oct 2017

Transforming Urgent and Emergency Care through Vanguards

Urgent and Emergency Care (UEC) vanguards have driven progress concerning the quality, efficiency and effectiveness of UEC services but there are still challenges for long-term impact.

Selected Research

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.
Investigating Social Impact Bonds for Health and Social Care

20 Jul 2018

Health and social care services in five SIB-funded projects were more flexibly provided than in similar non-SIB projects, but it is unclear whether this resulted in better client outcomes. Attribution of outcomes to the SIB-financed intervention should be prioritised in the future.
Exploring Funding Options for the NHS and Social Care in the UK

11 Jul 2018

Research on the public acceptability of different health and social care funding models examined other countries' funding schemes and found there is no single, commonly preferred solution to achieving sustainable revenues. The second stage of this research will assess the popularity of different funding approaches among the UK public.
BRACE-NIHR rapid service evaluation centre for healthcare in England

06 Jun 2018

The Birmingham, RAND and Cambridge Evaluation (BRACE) Centre is funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) to conduct rapid evaluations of promising new services and innovations in healthcare.
Updating the 'Vitality Age' Calculator

01 Jun 2018

The Vitality Age Calculator is an online tool that gives users a ‘snapshot’ of their overall health based on lifestyle choices and clinical factors. RAND Europe helped to update the calculator's methodology and use of available data.
Using historical foresight to tackle antimicrobial resistance (AMR)

16 Apr 2018

Researchers are examining complex and enduring policy issues that have implications for public health (climate change and tobacco control) to gain a new perspective on how to tackle AMR. The team will look at how historical analysis can be used in future approaches to scenario planning and policymaking, with a particular focus on AMR policy.
Pre-Evaluation of the Communities of Practice (CoPs) Programme

20 Mar 2018

Researchers conducted a scoping exercise to help plan and prepare for a more systematic and complete evaluation of the Health Innovation Network's Communities of Practice, while also providing immediate evidence to help CoPs improve their effectiveness.

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

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
When we delay [school] start times, we see an increase in attendance rates. We also see an increase in graduation rates. This has a direct impact on their lifetime earnings.
Wendy M. Troxel

Senior Behavioral and Social Scientist
Source: NPR
We need to be careful about seeing ‘telephone first’ as a panacea: while it increases control over GP’s daily workload it does not necessarily decrease consulting time.
Jennifer Newbould

Research Leader
Source: Spotlight on 2017