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Service User Experience in Adult Mental Health Guidance

Natasha — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:15:34 +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.

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

Natasha — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 15:50:22 +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 10:02:02 +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

Natasha — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:02:37 +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?

Natasha — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 15:35:38 +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.

Evaluation of the Challenge and Support programme

Natasha — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 13:18:52 +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.

Evaluation of the Adults facing Chronic Exclusion programme (ACE)

Max — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 13:48:19 +0000

The Department of Communities and Local Government has published Matrix’s evaluation of the Adults facing Chronic Exclusion programme (ACE). The programme tested new ways of working with excluded people who do not access services in the community because their lives are chaotic and their needs are too complex. The evaluation found that the pilots offered support from a consistent, trusted adult and the interventions proved to be effective and inexpensive. Some of the pilots are highly replicable and half have received continuation funding locally. The Matrix report highlights lessons for public sector reform – particularly how to make services more flexible and collaborative. Please follow the link to the report which provides information on cost-benefit measurements, pilot outcomes and implications for policy”. You can download the report here

The Centre for Excellence and Outcomes in Children and Young People’s Services

Max — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 15:12:07 +0000

New scanning technology for patients with chest pain can save public money

Max — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 16:04:11 +0000

The European Scanning Centre commissioned Matrix Evidence to undertake a cost-effectiveness analysis of two alternative pathways for the diagnosis of coronary artery disease. The research suggests that a community-based pathway employing the latest in scanning technology for patients with chest pain can save public money compared with traditional care. You can download the report here.

An economic evaluation of speech and language therapy

Max — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 10:16:25 +0000

The Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT) commissioned Matrix Evidence to undertake an economic evaluation of providing speech and language therapy to three specific groups – children with speech and language impairment, children with autism and stroke survivors – in order to pinpoint the benefits generated by speech and language therapy for these cohorts in relation to the costs of provision.