A series of interviews to help understand patients' views on a 'telephone-first' approach, in which all appointment requests in general practice are followed by a telephone call from the general practitioner (GP).
A study to identify how community-based social innovations function across a number of rapidly ageing countries and the policies, programmes and health system factors underpinning their success.
An evaluation of how the PbR approach can help to provide different schemes that support the recovery of individuals from drug and alcohol dependence and their successful re-integration into their communities.
RAND Europe was commissioned by the Forces in Mind Trust to conduct a study on the role of resilience in shaping the transition experiences of UK Service leavers. The study also identified relevant insights from other sectors through analysis of the experiences of civilian comparator groups undergoing transition, including bereaved individuals, former prisoners and foster care leavers.
As part of a larger project identifying feasible options for the future funding of health & social care in the UK, this paper explores how 16 high-income countries have implemented changes to their funding systems to better meet the challenges ahead.
UK recommendations to provide shorter prescriptions are not substantiated by the current evidence base.
Findings suggest that incentivising physical activity to tackle sedentary lifestyles can improve activity levels. The study confirms that a loss-framed incentive such as the Vitality Active Rewards with Apple Watch benefit can improve physical activity levels beyond the incentive induced by a gain-framed scheme, which provides individuals only with rewards for physical activity such as the Vitality Active Rewards programme.
The first Q Improvement Lab ('Q Lab'), funded by the Health Foundation and NHS Improvement, was launched in the spring of 2017. RAND Europe and the University of Cambridge conducted a real-time, formative evaluation to address the overarching question: 'Is the Q Lab approach likely to become an effective, valuable way of developing ideas or interventions to support positive change at multiple levels of the health and care system?
We propose a list of questions that researchers and policy-makers can use when writing or critiquing policy in order to bring broader perspective to the forefront of their analysis of the problem.
Nesta standards were applied to assess evidence of workplace health outcomes. 117 case studies were received via an open portal. Topics included mental health, holistic programmes, organisational capacity, health assessment, MSK, activity, nutrition, weight management, menopause, sleep, alcohol misuse and domestic violence.Findings show promising practice and suggest that academically rigorous methods of data collection are not widely in use.
RAND Europe's annual review, Spotlight on 2017, features some of the objective research and analysis we do to help policy and decision makers keep pace with an ever-changing world.
Communities of Practice (CoPs) are self-organising and self-governing groups of people who strive to be better practitioners by developing and spreading new knowledge and practices. CoPs are seen as valuable means to improve collective learning in health and social care, but measuring their effect is difficult. This scoping study collected data to assess the feasibility of, and best approach to, a full-scale evaluation of CoPs.
RAND Europe was commissioned to undertake a study into violence and disorder at major international sporting events. This study gathers and critically assesses the available evidence into the prevalence, nature and causes of violence and disorder at other major sporting events, and to draw on promising practices to prevent and respond to these harms.
This case study gathers and critically assesses the available evidence on violent and antisocial behaviour at football events in the MENA region, as well as strategies to prevent and reduce the occurrence of these behaviours.
This report defines and describes the updated Vitality Age model. While maintaining the core concepts of the original Vitality Age model, the new version expands the number of input factors used in the analysis, builds on a more comprehensive and consistent data source, incorporates age-related mortality, improves handling of missing data, and substantially expands the possibilities for sensitivity analysis of results.
In 2009, RAND Europe conducted a literature review in order to assess the effectiveness and efficiency of peer review for grant funding. This report presents an update to that review to reflect new literature on the topic, and adds case studies exploring peer review practice at six international funders.
Community hospitals can provide effective care and are valued by patients and their families, but there is limited evidence to understand these benefits against the costs of community hospitals.
Biomedical research can have impacts on patient care at research-active hospitals. We qualitatively evaluated the impact of the Oxford Biomedical Research Centre (Oxford BRC), a university-hospital partnership, on the effectiveness and efficiency of healthcare in local hospitals.
For clinicians, this study provides clear evidence that a considerable part of patient workload can be dealt with through phone consultations.
The overarching aim of this work is to evaluate the role of R&D on PRNDs in contributing to achieving UHC and improving population health in low- and middle-income countries.
The report presents findings from a survey conducted by RAND Europe at the request of the National Institute for Health Research to gather and synthesise stakeholder views on the future of health and healthcare in England in 20 to 30 years' time. The aim was to generate an evidence-based picture of the future health needs, and how it might differ from today. The findings validate several current health research priorities in England.
The demand for health services in England is both growing and changing in nature, yet resources are limited in their ability to respond to the scale and scope of need. RAND Europe and the University of Manchester have been commissioned by the Department of Health (in close collaboration with NHS England and the Office for Life Sciences), to conduct a study to examine the potential of innovation to respond to the challenges that the NHS faces.
RAND Europe and the University of Manchester have been commissioned to conduct a study to examine the potential of innovation to respond to the challenges the NHS faces, and to help deliver value for money, efficient and effective services.
RAND Europe investigated the economic implications of later school start times in the U.S. through an innovative economic analysis (in 47 U.S. states) of a state-wide universal shift to 8:30 a.m. Using a novel macroeconomic modelling approach, the benefit-cost projections in the study suggested that delaying school start times is a cost-effective policy change, which could have a significant impact on public health and the U.S. economy.
The report summarises the key findings from an evidence synthesis completed by the University of Cambridge and RAND.
