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Research Projects on Health and Care

Patient Direct Access to NHS Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy
Meeting the demand for musculoskeletal health care is a challenge for both health services and healthcare providers. RAND Europe assessed the cost-effectiveness of care and the direct access model of care.
11 May 2023
The societal and indirect economic burden of seasonal influenza in the United Kingdom
RAND Europe researchers estimated that 2.4 million working adults could be infected with influenza, resulting in 4.8 million working days lost annually.
28 Apr 2023
Evaluation of the Innovation Fund Health-led Trials
Innovation Fund Health-led Trials test new ways to address sickness absence and the disability employment gap due to two main conditions: mental health and musculoskeletal disorders. RAND Europe, together with partners, evaluated the effectiveness of these innovative interventions.
25 Apr 2023
Helping support the development and adoption of novel diagnostics tests for cancer
RAND Europe’s work is helping understand how to develop diagnostic Target Product Profiles for cancer and the types of features they need to cover to be useful for innovators, payers and health care professionals and patients.
14 Apr 2023
Exploring the impacts of increasing cost transparency requirements in pharmaceutical R&D
An independent literature review analysed evidence to consider the positive and negative impacts on medicines pricing and innovation, and how these should be considered as part of the ongoing transparency and pricing debate.
06 Apr 2023
Examining the use of Out of Court Disposals for adults with health vulnerabilities
RAND Europe, in partnership with Get the Data and Skills for Justice, has been commissioned by the Ministry of Justice to conduct a study on how police in England and Wales use Out of Court Disposals (OOCDs) to support adults with health-related vulnerabilities.
13 Feb 2023
Evaluating the Children and Young People's Mental Health Trailblazer programme
An early evaluation of the Children and Young People’s Mental Health Trailblazer programme examined the development, implementation and early progress of the 25 mental health support teams created as the first step of the programme.
31 Jan 2023
Future proofing the EU AMR Action Plan
Researchers identified how the European AMR Action Plan can be strengthened to mitigate against future threats, take advantage of future opportunities and move towards a better future in relation to AMR.
25 Jan 2023
Addressing challenges in care for patients with Clostridioides difficile infection
RAND Europe was commissioned by Ferring Pharmaceuticals to undertake an independent study to identify and characterise the challenges in the care pathway for patients with C. difficile infection and to consider key areas for improvement in the care patients receive. We identified a number of opportunities and priorities for improving patient care, from the patient/clinician level up to the level of the healthcare system.
19 Jan 2023
Assessing the use of new technologies for infectious disease surveillance, prevention and control
RAND Europe is providing research and support for the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) for the assessment of new technologies for infectious disease surveillance, prevention and control.
04 Jan 2023
Exploring the variation across countries in access to faecal microbiota transplantation
RAND Europe was commissioned by Ferring Pharmaceuticals to explore current practice and differences in the establishment, running and distribution of stool banks and the availability of FMT for patients with recurrent C. difficile infection, across a sample of geographies.
13 Dec 2022
Evaluation of the PATH-SAFE Programme
Researchers are evaluating the UK Food Standards Agency's pilot Pathogen Surveillance in Agriculture, Food and the Environment (PATH-SAFE) Programme to assess whether it is improving detection of pathogens in the agri-food system and to enhance its success with recommendations for management.
08 Dec 2022
Use and impact of automated technologies for evidence synthesis in public health
Because the review of published evidence is a vital but time-consuming aspect of public health decision making, researchers suggest several ways to support the greater use of automation for evidence reviews within public health.
08 Dec 2022
Evaluating the UK government's COVID-19 research stabilisation interventions
Having launched a series of policy interventions to address the causes and consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK, BEIS and UKRI asked RAND Europe and Vitae to evaluate the interventions' success in supporting the research community.
06 Dec 2022
Occupational safety and health: understanding decision making and the role of evidence
To help make working environments safer, it can help to use evidence to inform guidelines, regulations and decision making. Researchers investigated the availability and use of evidence in decision making and recommend several next steps.
23 Nov 2022
Advancing environmentally sustainable health research
Researchers are mapping the existing tools and methods that aim to measure and/or improve the environmental sustainability of health research and assessing how these can be used and incorporated into Wellcome processes and decision-making.
21 Oct 2022
Understanding employee wellbeing, work behaviours and work outcomes in a hybrid work context
Analysis of employee data from one employer, Vitality, suggest that workplace behaviours are associated with wellbeing, that employees can be clustered based on their work behaviours and that improving employee wellbeing is associated with better work and performance outcomes.
14 Oct 2022
Evaluating the Multi-Agency Advisory Service for AI and data-driven technologies in health and social care
Researchers are conducting a process evaluation to help MAAS and relevant stakeholders improve their service and identify ways to understand the impact that MAAS may have on developers and adopters of AI and other data-driven technologies in health and care that engage with the service.
11 Oct 2022
Helping NHS staff to evaluate health and wellbeing interventions within the NHS
To equip wellbeing practitioners within the NHS with the tools and knowledge to enable them to effectively evaluate their wellbeing programmes, and to ensure that they are achieving their objectives, RAND Europe designed and delivered a set of presentational workshops, in partnership with NHS Employers, to each of the five NHS England regions.
21 Sep 2022
Combatting psychological violence against women across the EU
Commissioned by the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE), researchers conducted a study to help strengthen the institutional capacity of the EU and member states to combat psychological violence against women and coercive control.
19 Jul 2022

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