Topics
01. Leadership
Find out how our leadership work focuses on developing leaders specifically to improve the quality of care for patients
02. Patient safety
Our new safety programme – Safer Clinical Systems – aims to improve the underlying systems that support the delivery of healthcare
03. International comparisons
We’ve brought together publicly available data from across the four nations of the UK to present an intra-UK picture of the quality of healthcare
04. Patient engagement
Our Co-creating Health initiative aims to change the patient-clinician relationship to one of partnership and embed self-management support
05. Clinical measurement
Our Engaging with Quality schemes aim to measure how patients are treated now and help healthcare professionals improve their practices
Latest news
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Health Select Committee commends the Health Foundation’s pioneering Safer Patients Initiative
The Health Select Committee has commended the Safer Patients Initiative in a report published today following an enquiry into patient safety. The Health Foundation responded by calling on boards to implement Safer Patients Initiative. The Safer Patients Initiative was launched in 2004 to find practical ways of improving patient safety.
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Health spending and outcomes for the new English primary care trusts
Current spending by primary care trusts on some important programmes of care is highly cost-effective, according to the third spending and outcomes study by the Health Foundation.
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GP wins a prestigious research award for study into smokers ageing lungs
A GP who encouraged patients to quit smoking by telling them their true 'lung age' has won the Research Paper of the Year Award from the RCGP.
In focus
The link between health spending and health outcomes for the new English PCTs
Our third report on programme budget data analysis builds on a unique methodology developed by the research team at the University of York.
Safer Patients Network
Launched in June 2009, the Health Foundation’s Safer Patients Network will test, develop and export ways to make healthcare safer for patients and build improvement skills in their systems of care.
New priority setting approach for the world class commissioner
A new award-winning approach to priority setting has been developed and tested supporting World Class Commissioning competencies 3 and 6.
Patient safety update
This update explains the Health Foundation's continuing work around patient safety, what we've learnt so far and our key priorities for the future.
