Meet our new team members
This month we have welcomed three new members to the ZPB team: Izzy, Saryona and Maliha (left to right). Maliha and Izzy have joined as...
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News
ZPB announced as winners at the 2023 DataComms Awards
ZPB Associates was shortlisted as finalists for two separate categories, ‘Best Data Insight from an Integrated Campaign’ and ‘Best...
New Brazilian health scheme improves the health of one of the UK’s most deprived neighbourhoods
A new scheme, inspired by a successful long-standing health initiative in Brazil, is improving the health and wellbeing of residents of...
Opinion
The power of insight-led approaches
by Matt Digby Everyone wants to do ‘insight-led’ work. But ‘insight’ gets thrown into every presentation, award entry or white paper,...
Applying commercial marketing principles to public health issues is not new news
by Rachel Allan Applying commercial marketing principles to public health issues is not new – indeed we used to call it social marketing...
I’ve been at ZPB for six months now – what have I learned?
by Carwyn Jones I joined ZPB because the business is really very interesting. It has "magic dust". It’s been six months now. So, what...
- Jun 26, 2014
- 2 min
Is the NHS broken? If so, who should fix it?
Is the NHS broken? If so, who should fix it? These are the questions being asked in policy-making circles right now after four recent...
- Jan 28, 2014
- 1 min
The information revolution hasn’t stopped care failings
The NHS is awash with information about hospital performance but it is not always translating into a safer acute care system for...
- Dec 20, 2013
- 1 min
Christmas, James Bond and ZPB
After a ZPB Christmas party that involved a speed boat trip down the Thames, cocktails in the Shard bar and of course nine charming and...
- Dec 12, 2013
- 1 min
How to make pathology reconfiguration work
ZPB’s Jennifer Nemeth discusses how the success of two trusts in the South West have changed the way they are delivering pathology...
- Dec 12, 2013
- 2 min
Signposting great care
Austerity and mortality were the twin tracks taken by this year’s Dr Foster Hospital Guide, which was once again edited by Alex Kafetz...
- Oct 22, 2013
- 1 min
Data lessons from the education sector
ZPB’s Alex Kafetz discusses how the education sector has been far more open in providing access to data and open to new ideas compared to...
- Jul 25, 2013
- 2 min
What would the NHS look like if it were run by Tesco?
Trust, values, loyalty, courage, act, balance, simple, lean, compete and truth – the ten words that guide successful management according...
- May 23, 2013
- 1 min
“Why hospital failure is fine, but passing is not”
We’re pleased to see one of our directors, Alex Kafetz, featured in the HSJ-online today. You can read Alex’s article, on Sir Bruce...
- Dec 8, 2011
- 1 min
ZPB in the HSJ
ZPB got a mention in the HSJ this week. Were we asked for insightful commentary on why trusts have so many readmissions? Or whether we...
- Jul 23, 2011
- 1 min
Patchy implementation of readmissions policy gets some Trusts a raw deal
Following our work with US data analysis company Sg2 on the cost of emergency readmissions, it came to our attention that many...
- Jun 28, 2011
- 1 min
Dementia care – a cause worth writing for
Following our report with Healthcare at Home Ltd about how to deliver excellence in home-based dementia care, we wrote a follow up 1,300...
- Feb 10, 2011
- 1 min
Joint replacement: how to build financially sustainable services
The second HSJ Change Forecast, with analysis from US company Sg2 explains how trusts can implement optimised pathways in primary hip and...
- Nov 11, 2010
- 1 min
Saving £800m in COPD inpatient care
US analytics company Sg2 and and HSJ have launched the Change Forecast – an online resource delivering in-depth analysis on future...
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