What we do
About us
We are a research collaboration, based mainly within universities, with a passion to eliminate health and care inequalities through high quality evidence and innovation. We believe that everyone should be able to enjoy good health and the highest standard of healthcare. Our work draws on the latest machine learning software and is made possible through funding from the NHS.
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Latest resources
How to: A guide to co-production in the NHS
This practical and reflective guide explores the meaning, value, and challenges of co-production in healthcare, offering tools and real-world insights for working collaboratively with patients and communities. Rooted in lived experience, it provides honest reflections, key questions, and step-by-step suggestions to support meaningful partnership, equity, and transformation within NHS services.
What works: Health and care interventions to support people from disadvantaged backgrounds in returning to work
Return to work interventions seek to address long-term work or sickness absence, but whether they achieve equitable outcomes is unclear. This brief reviews the evidence to identify health and care interventions that support people from disadvantaged backgrounds return to employment.
Blogs
Applying a missingness lens to healthcare – missed appointments letters – tear up and start again!
In this guest blog, Professor Andrea Williamson reflects on her previous research into repeated missed healthcare appointments, which links high non-attendance to poorer health outcomes and social disadvantage. Building on this work, she introduces a new approach to appointment letters aimed at better supporting patients and improving engagement with services.
Inequalities in Continuous Glucose Monitoring for young people with diabetes
In recent years, continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) has become an increasingly important part of diabetes care. This implantable technology uses disposable sensors to transmit up-to-date blood glucose data to a connected smartphone, preventing the need for repeated finger prick testing. By reducing the pain and effort associated with repeated blood sugar sampling, CGM is transformative […]