Retail data & local alcohol policy / Comparison of 4 'Trailblazer' projects
HSRP SEMINAR SERIES 206-2017 presents two seminars:
Small 'Big data': Opportunities and challenges using retail sales data to evaluate local alcohol policies
Speaker: Triantafyllos Pliakas, Research Fellow at LSHTM for Public Health Research
Summary: 'Big data' already plays a significant role in some areas of medicine, like genomics, but less so in public health. There is an ongoing debate among public health researchers and practitioners on the potential benefits and pitfalls in using 'big data'. In this talk I will discuss the practical and methodological challenges for using small 'big data', in the form of retail alcohol sales data, to evaluate two local alcohol policies, the 'Reducing the Strength' initiative in Ipswich and a cumulative impact policy in Islington.
Why is it sometimes so difficult to commission a Social Impact Bond? A comparative analysis of four recent Health and Social Care 'Trailblazer' projects in England
Speaker: Alex Fraser, Research Fellow in PIRU
Summary: Social Impact Bonds (SIBs) are a new mechanism for funding and delivery of public services using non-government up-front finance and outcomes-based contracts. In health and social care, nine varied projects - collectively known as the SIB Trailblazers, received funding from the UK Government's Social Enterprise Investment Fund (SEIF) in 2013 to explore the potential for local SIB development. The SEIF was established in 2007 by the Department of Health to facilitate the development of the social enterprise market in health and social care. We report qualitative interim findings from a DH-funded project focused on the English Health and Social Care SIB Trailblazers. Specifically, we ask why were four of the original nine SIB Trailblazers not commissioned?
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