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Health topics

We carry out policy analysis and research, as well as funding and development work, covering a wide range of health and social care issues. This section groups together our work and resources relating to key health topics. To find out about our main areas of work, see current projects.

Managing long-term conditions

Examining policy development and services for the 17 million people in the United Kingdom with long-term medical conditions

Our work on managing long-term conditions

Older people

Exploring care policies and services, age discrimination and schemes to improve the health and well-being of older people

Our work on older people

BME groups

Examining the health and social care issues that particularly affect black and minority ethnic groups in the United Kingdom

Our work with BME groups

Commissioning

Exploring how NHS commissioners can get the best from health care providers in the independent and voluntary sectors

Our work on commissioning

Financing

Examining spending on health and social care, and the practical and theoretical impacts of new financial systems

Our work on financing

Governance and regulation

Examining how regulation will work in an NHS market involving a variety of primary and secondary care providers

Our work on regulation

Health in London

Looking at the health and social care issues that affect England's rapidly expanding and culturally diverse capital city

Our work on health in London

Mental health

Evaluating progress in mental health care, helping develop practical solutions, and brokering debate about how to build best practice

Our work on mental health

Patient choice

Analysing the practical and theoretical impacts of the government's patient choice and payment by results initiatives

Our work on patient choice

Primary care

Exploring issues facing primary care trusts, and policy and service developments in primary care across the United Kingdom

Our work on primary care

Public health

Researching and analysing the success of public health initiatives, and practically implementing public health work in London

Our work on public health

Waiting lists

Evaluating initiatives to reduce NHS waiting lists and identifying strategies for achieving and sustaining reductions in waiting times

Our work on waiting lists

Workforce

Providing an independent perspective on NHS workforce issues, and examining challenges to London's health workforce

Our work on workforce