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Service User Experience in Adult Mental Health Guidance

Natasha — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:19:22 +0000

Work undertaken by The Reviews Team to support the National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health in producing a national clinical guideline has been published. Read the guidance paper here. This work was part of The Reviews Team’s business strategy to provide capacity to other centres without going to tender.

Economic Evaluation Work

Natasha — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 16:11:23 +0000

Matrix Evidence previously wrote a paper on economics in social care for Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE). SCIE have now developed this further and have published their approach to economic evaluations. In this report, Matrix Evidence are acknowledged as having worked with them to develop this approach. Read the report here.

Evidence review to support a manufacturer’s submission of evidence for a Single Technology Appraisal (STA)

Natasha — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 10:16:13 +0000

The Reviews team have won their first piece of work from United Biosource Corporation (UBC), a large organisation that supports life science companies to develop and commercialise their products. The project will be an evidence review to support a manufacturer’s submission of evidence for a Single Technology Appraisal (STA) to the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE). The review is on the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of pixantrone for relapsed or refractory aggressive non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL).

Violent and general reoffending Review

Natasha — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 15:54:24 +0000

The Reviews team has been awarded a contract to do a systematic review on the risk and protective factors associated with violent and general reoffending for the MoJ. The evidence review will contribute to the improvement and development of the Offender Assessment System (OASys).

Understanding vulnerability and resilience in individuals to the influence of Al Qa’ida violent extremism

Natasha — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 15:32:36 +0000

The Home Office (Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism) has just published our report on Understanding vulnerability and resilience in individuals to the influence of Al Qa’ida violent extremism. It can be downloaded here.

This Rapid Evidence Assessment identifies the social, psychological and physical factors for vulnerability or resilience to Al Qa‘ida influenced violent extremism. In the absence of a mature empirical evidence base it explores what transferrable knowledge can be taken from the more developed literature on other types of violent activity e.g. other terrorist activity, gangs, cults, etc.

School Home Support (SHS) report

Natasha — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 10:00:13 +0000

School Home Support (SHS) is a national charity working with vulnerable and excluded children and families. SHS provides trained, experienced and professional workers who become paid members of the school’s pastoral care team, enabling teachers and school management teams to focus on managing core school business and delivering the curriculum. Matrix Evidence has previously worked with SHS and produced an Economic Analysis of SHS in 2007.

Increasingly commissioning will be based on the cost savings that interventions can realize. Thus, it is important to quantify the savings that SHS produces. This time Matrix Knowledge Group was commissioned to generate this evidence and to answer the following research questions:

What is the short-term economic cost savings associated with the cases of bad behaviour, truancy, and exclusion avoided by SHS?
What are the short-term annual realisable cost savings associated with avoiding the cases of bad behaviour, truancy, and exclusion through SHS interventions?

Download the report here.

Spotlight on Dementia Care

Natasha — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:59:11 +0000

A report written by Matrix Evidence on dementia care has recently been published by The Health Foundation. This report brings together good practice guidance, research evidence and current data on service delivery with the aim of helping health service providers provide high quality care. Click here to read the full report.

Getting out of hospital? – The Health Foundation

Natasha — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 15:30:30 +0000

Matrix Evidence was commissioned by the Health Foundation to summarise the evidence on the effects of transferring acute inpatient and day-case services from hospitals into the community. The review concluded that such a shift was often associated with improved patient satisfaction, and, in the right context, the quality of care delivered in the community could be comparable to that provided by hospitals. However, the lack of robust economic data means it is by no means certain that such a move would lead to cost savings for the NHS or social care. Read the report here.

Economic Evaluation of DRX-I

Natasha — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 11:02:45 +0000

The economic analysis for the new CARESTREAM DRX technology carried out by Matrix Evidence, using data from Brighton and Sussex NHS Trust, has concluded that upgrading CR to this new technology could lead to productivity gains and cost savings for x-ray hospital departments. Read the press release to find out more.

Evaluation of the Challenge & Support programme

Natasha — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 12:49:33 +0000

The Department for Education has just published Matrix Evidence’s three year evaluation of the Challenge and Support programme, a multi-million pound initiative aimed at tackling anti-social behaviour in young people in 52 areas in England. Our report concluded that the programme was likely to have had a positive impact in reducing persistent antisocial behaviour and diverting young people away from the justice system. However, we also highlighted the lack of robust data to measure both the cost of delivery and the impact of the service as being a real and persistent problem and stated that “Where commissioners are going to pay for services on the basis of successful delivery of outcomes, it is essential these issues be addressed.” The report can be downloaded here.