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Systematic review of the effectiveness of ten High Impact Initiatives/Interventions (HIIs) for Recovering Urgent & Emergency Care Services
An independent evaluation of the NHS England delivery plan for recovering urgent & emergency care services (‘the UEC recovery plan’).
The recovery plan has two headline objectives over two years:
A 30-minute mean response time for Category 2 ambulance in 23/24
76% performance in A&E wait times by end 23/24, measured through the 4-hour target.
NHS England has asked urgent and emergency care systems to focus on 10 High Impact Initiatives (HIIs); areas anticipated to have the biggest impact on UEC performance for Winter 2023/24.
This review will address the following research questions:
What is the emerging evidence base for the 10 HIIs based on a review of published and grey literature?
What evidence is there for each HII relating to:
Impact on UEC performance (two headline objectives)
Cost effectiveness
Outcomes and benefits.
For more information about this project visit the NIHR Funding and Awards website.
The acceptability of blood spot screening and genome sequencing in newborn screening: a systematic review examining evidence and frameworks
It has recently become even more crucial to assess the health benefits and harms that such screening programmes have on the individuals and their families in light of Genomics England's plan to use Whole Genome sequencing to screen 100,000 newborns for rare diseases. One of the screening criteria used by the UK National Screening Committee (NSC) to evaluate screening programme is that ‘The test should be clinically, socially and ethically acceptable to the population’.
This review will address the following research questions:
What are the currently available methods to evaluate acceptability of newborn screening programmes?
What do we know about the quantity and quality of research that relates to acceptability in newborn screening tests?
How robust are the tools which are used to evaluate acceptability in newborn screening?
What are the implications of the evidence for the introduction and evaluation of new newborn screening programmes?
For more information about this project visit the NIHR Funding and Awards website.
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