Richard Murray

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The Policy-Makers Perspective

• Richard Murray
• Director, Financial Planning and Allocations and
  Interim Director of Strategy

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Background

• Experience of both providing and analysing
  information for policy purposes when an analyst
  and consultant and
• Now, acting as the policy customer for analysts
  and researchers

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What do policy-makers care about?

• Evidence-based policy (and even Policy-based
  evidence) requires

Timeliness
Can I have it now?
Generally, they (we) are less concerned about
where the data/analysis comes from as long as it
meets these requirements
Quality
Is it accurate?
Does it answer the question?
Relevance
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There are (perceived) advantages to
administrative data
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And, of course, disadvantages too
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And a further, rather generic challenge that is
particularly severe in healthcare
Level of trust in statistics (2005)
Reason for trust in waiting times statistics net
balance (2005)
Level of trust in official Institutions (2005)
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And we are trying to overcome some of the
disadvantages