We gathered real life case studies from Richmond Group member charities to show why data is so critical for good healthcare and the tangible benefits which can be gained from its use. The report highlights the significant barriers to good data – including technological barriers, uncertainty around information governance, and a lack of public trust – and called on everyone responsible for healthcare data across the health and care system to help realise the true potential of this invaluable resource.
In summer 2016, working in collaboration with the British Red Cross and Royal Voluntary Service, we commissioned The King’s Fund and the Nuffield Trust to undertake a series of interviews with individuals with experience of using social care services. The aim of this work was to complement and add value to a wider piece of research being undertaken by The King’s Fund and the Nuffield Trust to examine the future sustainability of the social care system, Social Care for Older People: Home Truths.
This report, published in respsonse to the NHS's 5 Five Year Forward View, made the case that leading health and care charities have the right tools and expertise to help make it a reality.
In January 2015, we commissioned an in-depth research project to try to understand the future trends for the most prevalent long-term health conditions in the UK, specifically how many people are either dying early from these conditions, or living with continued disability and poor health. We also wanted to identify interventions that could prevent or reduce the incidence of these long‑term conditions that could be applied to the whole UK population, focusing on major lifestyle risks which contribute to those conditions. The Living Longer, Living Well overview report summarises the results of this study, which used the ‘25 by 25’ goals from the World Health Organization (WHO) as a benchmark against which to measure UK trends.
This report brought together the data we all individually held about how our beneficiaries, the 15 million people in England with long term conditions, experienced their use of health and care services. This unique evidence highlighted some worrying gaps in long-term conditions care which led to many preventable problems.
This report outlined our ambition relating to the prevention agenda, setting out what we believe is required from leaders across government and the health and social care system in order to achieve the World Health Organisation’s 25 by25 targets.
