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- 20th Oct 2015
Stating Appointment Costs in SMS Reminders Reduces Missed Hospital Appointments: Findings from Two Randomised Controlled Trials
Missed hospital appointments are a major cause of inefficiency worldwide. Healthcare providers are increasingly using Short Message Service reminders to reduce ‘Did Not Attend’ (DNA) rates.
- Blog
- 22nd Oct 2015
Reducing missed appointments
One in ten hospital outpatient appointments is missed – people don’t turn up, and don’t cancel or rearrange in advance. That’s 5.5 million appointments every year in England alone. Missed appointments lead to people not getting the care they need, when they need it. They also lead to costs to…
- Blog
- 27th Oct 2015
Victoria’s Citizens’ Jury on Obesity
Wow! I'm writing this heading back from Australia, from the citizens’ jury VicHealth have just supported on obesity. It was a very powerful, and moving, process. Having seen the jury in action, it is hard to imagine a future of democracy – and the application of behavioural science to policy –…
- Blog
- 22nd Jan 2016
Applying behavioural insights to improve life chances
A quiet moment in Davos, among the world’s elites, is a strange place to reflect on those whose accidents of birth make it hard to get to a place like this, even from a relatively affluent country like Britain. I’m here as Chair of the WEF group on behaviour, and…
- Blog
- 19th Feb 2016
Reducing antibiotic prescribing: a new BIT study published in The Lancet
The growth of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the major health challenges of our time. The UK’s Review on Antimicrobial Resistance has forecast that AMR will result in 10 million deaths and $100 trillion in unachieved GDP a year by 2050. One of the main causes of resistance is…
- Blog
- 22nd Feb 2016
How can text messages encourage people to see a doctor?
If you haven’t seen a doctor in a long time, the thought of picking up the phone to schedule an appointment can be terrifying. Sometimes it’s easier to adopt an “out of sight out of mind” mentality. However, the people who haven’t seen a doctor in years are the ones…
- Blog
- 26th Feb 2016
People: peers, pain and power
One of the most fascinating and important areas in life is surely the fine line between wanting to help, and being wary of, those around us. It’s a tension woven deeply into policy and into our humanity. Recently I had one of those afternoons where an accident of meetings seemed…
- Blog
- 18th Mar 2016
Sugar tax: how will it affect behaviour?
One of the most striking announcements in this week’s UK budget was the introduction of a new ‘soft drinks levy’ (quickly dubbed the sugar tax), which will come into force in 2018. New taxes aren’t usually associated with the Behavioural Insights Team - partly because BIT’s preference is to find…
- Person
Hazel Wright
Hazel is a Principal Advisor in the Local Government team based out of BIT's Manchester office. She joined the team in 2015 and works on intervention development, trial design and the implementation of quasi-experimental methods. This includes the development of trials in health, employment and crime prevention. Prior to joining…
- Blog
- 22nd Mar 2016
Five factors for supporting people to take a more active role in health and wellbeing
Today we launch a report, as part of the Realising the Value consortium, that aims to show how people themselves can take more active roles in their own health and care. They, along with their communities, can create self-care routines which boost health and wellbeing. The potential value of this…