A high-quality evaluation of an innovation or intervention in healthcare will typically use quantitative and qualitative evidence.

A public sector organisation had started to bring together a healthcare evaluation service. They envisioned this as a future growth area, with the aim of generating income for the organisation. 

We worked with a charity that provides palliative care and receives an important part of its funding from local commissioners.  It is understood that the charity’s services provide a substitute for health and social care services which otherwise would be used by these patients and their carers. 

One way of reducing the number of hospital visits that patients with chronic conditions have to make is the use of telemedicine. Telemedicine and telehealth are two terms that are sometimes used without much differentiation between them.

The numbers of children who survive cancer has been increasing dramatically over recent decades. The standard of care has been for these cases to be followed up for very long periods, sometimes for their lifetime.

For patients with chronic conditions there is often a need to attend multiple hospital appointments for their monitoring and care. This represents a burden on patients and also uses a lot of healthcare resources.

Over several years, we worked with over 50 participants in an NHS-funded accelerator, across multiple annual cohorts.