Join us at the Rapid evaluation in health care conference 2024.
The Rapid evaluation conference, organised by the Nuffield Trust and the Improvement Analytics Unit at the Health Foundation, will take place on 8 May 2024, at the British Medical Association.
Now in its sixth year, the conference will bring together representatives from the rapid evaluation community, including analysts, users and commissioners to explore the theme: Evidence-based decisions when budgets are tight: rapid evaluation and knowledge mobilisation.
The UK health and social care system is experiencing numerous challenges, including increasingly tight budgets, leading to a system trying to deliver more for less. Within this context, rapid evaluations that enable evidence-based decisions are crucial, as is mobilising existing evidence.
The conference brings together those who are interested in rapid evaluation, including analysts, evaluators, service users, policy makers, commissioners and local decision makers to discuss current and future challenges, engage in new thinking and develop ideas that can help improve systems and processes.
View the recorded sessions from the 2023 conference.
Session 1: Current challenges in the system – where next for rapid evaluation?
- Chair: Therese Lloyd Senior Analytical Manager, The Health Foundation
- Chair: Professor Judith Smith Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Health Services Management Centre and in the BRACE team, University of Birmingham
- Speaker: Thea Stein Chief Executive, Nuffield Trust
- Speaker: Arne Wolters Head of Improvement Analytics at Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust, Implementation Lead, NIHR Applied Research Collaboration for the North East and North Cumbria
- Speaker: Abeda Mulla Managing Consultant, The Strategy Unit
- Speaker: Knowledge Specialist tbc, tbc
Session 2: Breakout sessions
- Chair: Tatjana Marks Director of Advanced Analysis, The Health Foundation
- Speaker: Chris Sherlaw-Johnson Senior Fellow, Nuffield Trust, Member of the NIHR Rapid Service Evaluation Team (RSET)
- Speaker: Sharon Brennan Director of Policy and External Affairs, National Voices
- Speaker: Professor Ann-Marie Towers Professor of Social Care Research, Academic lead for the Kent Research Partnership and Social Care Theme Lead for the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration Kent, Surrey, Sussex., University of Kent
- Speaker: Professor Carl Thompson Chair applied health research and Dame Kathleen Raven Chair in Clinical Research, University of Leeds, Faculty of Medicine and Health and NICHE-Leeds partner
- Speaker: Charlotte Ashton Programme Director, Islington NIHR Health Determinants Research Collaboration (HDRC)., Assistant Director, Consultant in Public Health Islington Council
- Chair: Elaine Kelly Assistant Director, REAL centre, The Health Foundation
- Speaker: Ed Kendall Director of Advanced Analysis, NHS England
- Speaker: Will Warburton Managing Director, Shelford Group
- Speaker: Dr Steve Morris RAND Professor of Health Services Research, University of Cambridge
- Chair: Paul Wilson Implementation Science Theme Lead, NIHR ARC Greater Manchester
- Speaker: Fraser Battye Principal, The Strategy Unit, Senior Research Associate, Jesus College Intellectual Forum
- Speaker: Professor Jo Dumville Professor of Applied Health Research and Co-Director of the NIHR Rapid Service Evaluation Team REVAL, University of Manchester
- Speaker: Louise Goswami Head of Knowledge and Library Services, NHS England
Session 3: Breakout Sessions
- Chair: Therese Lloyd Senior Analytical Manager, The Health Foundation
- Speaker: Lucy Sandell Senior Analytical Manager, NHS England
- Speaker: Dr Minal Bakhai National Director for Primary Care Transformation, NHS England
- Speaker: Gareth Hooper Analytics Manager, The Strategy Unit and Senior Scientific Advisor, NIHR
- Chair: Dr Juliette Malley Associate Professorial Research Fellow, London School of Economics
- Chair: Stephanie Kumpunen Senior Fellow, Nuffield Trust
- Speaker: Dr Axel Kaehne Professor of Health Services Research, Edge Hill University
- Speaker: Dr Sam Martin (She/Her) Senior Research Fellow, Rapid Research Evaluation and Appraisal Lab (RREAL), University College London (UCL)
- Speaker: Professor Niels Peek Professor of Data Science and Healthcare Improvement, University of Cambridge
- Chair: Jenny Newbould Research Leader for RAND Europe, Co-PPIE Lead for BRACE
- Speaker: Pei Li Ng Senior research project manager, PPIE co-lead, NIHR Rapid Service Evaluation Team (RSET), UCL
- Speaker: Raj Mehta PPIE co-lead NIHR, Rapid Service Evaluation Team (RSET)
Session 4: From rapid evaluation to rapid change
- Chair: Dr Angus Ramsay Principal Research Fellow, UCL Department of Behavioural Sciences and Health and Deputy Director of RSET, University College London
- Speaker: Richard Kirby Chief Executive Officer, Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Speaker: Dr Marc Farr Chief Analytical Officer, East Kent Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Speaker: Professor Annette Boaz Director of the NIHR Health and Social Care Workforce Research Unit, King's College London
- Speaker: Chris Sherlaw-Johnson Senior Fellow, Nuffield Trust, Member of the NIHR Rapid Service Evaluation Team (RSET)