YHEC offers a range of services to public sector clients.

• Health Service Research
  YHEC was originally established to provide health economic support to NHS organisations and this continues to account for a significant proportion of our work. Our applied health services research experience includes service reviews and evaluations at both a local and national level, covering a wide range of interventions and policy initiatives. These projects have helped to inform policy making at both a national and local level in areas including public health (e.g. alcohol misuse, physical activity, smoking cessation), patient safety, telehealth and telecare, learning disabilities, and children with life-limiting conditions.
• NHS Consultancy Services
  YHEC’s excellent reputation for project delivery in health economics places us in a strong position to provide consultancy services to support the NHS during the coming period of reform. The July NHS white paper outlined proposals for major structural changes to the NHS, most notably the introduction of GP commissioning. These changes will be accompanied by a requirement for significant efficiency savings of between £15-20 billion over the next 4-5 years. While the Government has committed to protecting NHS funding, NHS bodies will only be able to enjoy real increases in funding if they achieve productivity gains to release funds to support frontline services.
• Information Services
  Information is key to high quality research. Identifying and managing research evidence efficiently within projects is one of our strengths. We offer information services to support research in a range of topic areas. We also have expertise in information retrieval research and information skills training.
• Reviewing Services
  YHEC offers a range of reviewing services from scoping reviews and rapid evidence reviews, through to systematic reviews to inform reimbursement decisions for bodies such as NICE. We also undertake reviews to identify research gaps, to inform the development of economic models and to summarise health-related quality of life.
• NICE external assessment centre for the Medical Technologies Evaluation Programme
  YHEC is a part of the Newcastle and York consortium acting as a NICE external assessment centre. The Newcastle (Newcastle upon Tyne hospitals NHS foundation trust) and YHEC consortium has been commissioned by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence to provide an independent assessment of the evidence for medical technologies. The Newcastle-YHEC Consortium was chosen by public tender (alongside CEDAR and the Birmingham and Brunel consortium) because of its knowledge of and expertise in the evaluation of medical technologies.

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