Featured ResearchDISMEVAL: Developing and validating DISease Management EVALuation
20 October: Chronic diseases are recognised as one of the greatest challenges facing health systems in the 21st century. Yet healthcare is still largely built around an acute, episodic model that is ill-suited to meet the often multiple needs of people with chronic conditions. Structured approaches to better manage chronic disease have been proposed as a means to improve care quality and reduce healthcare costs. Yet, the available evidence on the ability of such approaches to actually do so remains uncertain. A new research project funded by the European Commission's Framework Programme 7 brings together ten partners in seven countries, led by RAND Europe, to identify and validate evaluation methods and performance measures for disease management in Europe and to make recommendations to policymakers, programme officials and other researchers. |
Featured ResearchAssessing Impacts and Outcomes of Regulatory Services
30 October: Local Authority Regulatory Services are under increasing pressures to demonstrate how they contribute to safe, sustainable and cohesive local communities. A new toolkit developed by RAND Europe now provides for the first time a step by step guide on how to select and develop meaningful indicators to assess the impacts and outcomes of operations of LARS, and how to gather and display the resulting information. The toolkit is based on research by RAND Europe analysing the current use of outcome and impact information across local authorities in England and Wales. Both reports, the toolkit and the final research report, have now been published by the Local Better Regulation Office (LBRO) which commissioned this research. |
News HighlightsA Mid-Term Review of the Swedish EU Presidency
8 October: Carl Bildt, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sweden and President of the General Affairs and External Relations Council of the European Union, addressed a RAND Europe audience during its annual reception in Brussels on 8 October. The European Union's Public Health Programme 2003-2007
9 October: A recent European Court of Auditors report on the European Union Public Health Programme drew heavily on RAND Europe's interim evaluation of the PHP. The ECA offered a wide critique of how the PHP was run. In this way, RAND Europe's evaluation work is contributing to strengthening accountability and oversight in European Union institutions. |
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