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Driving Healthcare Innovation: An Example of YHEC’s Work with the NHS Innovation Accelerator Scheme

In this blog, we speak with Jo Hanlon, Project Director, about a recent project that investigated the economic impact of a wearable device for diagnosing sleep apnoea - a project that came to YHEC through the NHS Innovation Accelerator Scheme.

Example Population Health Model

This example population health model illustrates how complex health data can be used to understand population-level outcomes. It offers clear insights into health trends and potential interventions, demonstrating how robust modelling can support strategic decision making for public health. All data in the model are derived from a 2024 YHEC publication.

How Can HTA Shape a More Sustainable Future for Healthcare?

YHEC Senior Research Consultant, Melissa Pegg, is the inaugural chair of the new Environmental Sustainability in Health Technology Assessment (ESHTA) Working Group. In this blog, she gives us some background to ESHTA, the importance of the group’s work, and her hopes for how the group might contribute to the field in the future.

Meet the Team: Erin Barker, a Senior Statistician

Interested to find out more about what it’s like to work at YHEC? Or maybe you have an interest in statistics and are wondering what a career in this field is like? In this blog we interview Erin Barker, a Senior Statistician at YHEC. We find out how she got into this role, what her day-to-day work looks like, and what she enjoys most about being part of YHEC.

Virtual Wards: Challenges, Opportunities and Evaluations in the NHS

Virtual wards, where patients can receive hospital-level acute care in a home setting, are becoming increasingly prevalent in the NHS. Join us as we interview Nick Hex, YHEC Associate Director, about why virtual wards are important and how they can be evaluated in the NHS.

Demonstration of Utility Elicitation

This web app provides an interactive demonstration of various methods used to elicit utility values from the general population. Through practical exercises, you can hypothetically value health states using time trade-off, standard gamble, and the visual analogue scale.

Using ChatGPT for Systematic Review Searching – Problem or Panacea?

The field of AI in life sciences is growing, with an increasing number of studies investigating whether AI tools can – and should – be used in healthcare research. Here, we interview YHEC’s Dr Anne Littlewood, an Information Specialist who has been exploring the use of ChatGPT, a generative AI chatbot, for conducting searches for systematic reviews.