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OUR SOLUTIONS
The health and social care team support the improvement of health and well being and the development and delivery of services, through trusted research, insightful analysis and expert evaluation.

Purpose + Mission 

We work with UK and international government departments, the NHS and the wider health and social care sector and charities to support better evidence-based policy and delivery decisions for health and social care.  

Our hugely impactful research and evaluation portfolio means we are influencing policy across the sector, from deliberation with the public around complex trade-offs, to major patient experience surveys, the measurement of public perceptions, evaluation of programmes such as cancer diagnostic interventions and a host of mixed methods studies around topics such as health inequalities, technology in the adult social care sector, and use of health services.

Approach 

We have a team of over 40 experienced researchers and consultants with an extensive track record, who can assist you to identify, explore and assess solutions for your challenges. We tailor our approach and methodologies, using our breadth of methodological expertise, to meet the most technical requirements.

We deliver:

  • Quantitative research providing large-scale nationally representative surveys to understand public attitudes and behaviours towards health, health interventions and policy
  • Large-scale patient experience surveys to provide national statistics and evaluate service provision
  • Public perceptions polling – both tracking and fast-turnaround
  • A wide range of qualitative research, including audiences such as vulnerable groups, general public, patients, clinicians and senior stakeholders
  • Large scale deliberative engagement
  • Evaluation of national programmes and policies, including process and impact evaluations
  • Health economics

Integrated solutions 

The nature of our work means we regularly collaborate with other Ipsos teams to provide the best solutions for our clients. These include our other policy focused teams in the UK, such as the Employment, Work and Skills team, and Energy and Environment.  We also work with teams across Ipsos who work with private sector and international clients.

We also work closely with our methods focused teams, bringing national experts in:

  • Evaluation
  • Economic analysis
  • Strategy/advisory 
  • Behavioural science
  • Qualitative research excellence centre (QREC)
  • Ethnography
  • Innovation, data analytics
  • Public sector communications 
     

Senior leadership team 

Anna-Quigley

Anna Quigley, Director, Ipsos 

Anna Quigley heads up the team, with almost 20 years’ experience of policy, research and evaluation in the health and social care sector.  She has led many notable studies, spanning all areas of policy,  including large-scale surveys of patient experience, evaluations of national programmes, and research to explore public attitudes towards the NHS. 

Kate-Duxbury

Kate Duxbury Director, Ipsos 

Kate leads health policy research, with 19 years’ experience of mixed methods research in the health and social care sector. Policy areas she works across include elective care, health inequalities, Long COVID services, communications with the public, and health security. She has a focus on developing recommendations for her clients, to improve services, policies and communications, and to influence public discourse about the NHS and its future.

Michael-Lawrie

Michael Lawrie, Health Evaluation Lead Ipsos 

Michael has designed and delivered complex policy and programme evaluations across policy areas for 15 years, but with a focus on healthcare over the past 10 years. He has worked on both the consultancy and the client side, and therefore offers an in-depth understanding of the policy making process, the role of evaluation and evidence in this, and how to use analytical thinking early in projects to maximise the quality and insight of the end output.  

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