NIHR Social Care Statistics Working Group

The NIHR Statistics Group was formed to support statisticians to share expertise, facilitate communication and collaboration. The Group also aims to provide opportunities for career development.

As part of NIHR SSCR’s core activities and capacity-building programme, a subgroup of the NIHR Statistics Group has been established focused on statistical methods for adult social care research.

The Group is coordinated by Dr Bo Hu and Amritpal Rehill from the Care Policy and Evaluation Centre at LSE.

Join the Working Group

If you are interested in joining the Working Group please complete the form here.

Introductory webinar

In the Group’s first webinar, discussions took place on the role and activities for the Group.


The Webinar involved two presentations:

The good, the bad and the ugly: reflections from conducting a trial in social care
Professor Catherine Hewitt, York Trials Unit

Social care data: challenges and opportunities for evaluation
Dr Jose-Luis Fernandez, Care Policy and Evaluation Centre, LSE