Health Bill amendments: good news for patients
Government amendments bring us a vital step closer to realising ‘No decision about me without me’, says Jo Bibby
Our plans for 2012
It’s going to be a challenging year for UK health services. Find out about how we plan to support the service in our latest newsletter.
Public expenditure report
Our submission provides examples of learning from our Shine projects, which have aimed to find potential to increase quality while reducing cost.
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Featured projects
We have hundreds of projects running as part of our improvement programmes. Some highlights from these projects are below.
Patient record access
This project aims to make it standard practice for GP practices to offer patients access to their records (part of our Closing the Gap through Changing Relationships programme).
NHS Bolton
The Shine 2011 team is implementing a relapse prevention programme that uses mobile phone technology; contact is provided via mobile phone during the periods between formal appointments, when the client is most in danger of relapsing.
Get involved
There are several ways to get involved in the work of the Health Foundation. Current funding opportunities and invitations to tender are listed below. You can also receive alerts of new opportunities to get involved by registering for email updates.
Family & Patient-centred Care
This programmes aims to improve the experience of hospital care for patients and their families, and the working lives of staff. We want to work with hospitals that have already demonstrated commitment to transforming patients' experience of care.
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Apply for funding
View our programmes currently open for application.
Invitations to tender
View current invitations to tender to work with us.
Programmes
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Clinical Human Factors Group
The Clinical Human Factors Group was set up by Martin Bromiley with support from the Health Foundation in 2007. The group is a broad coalition of healthcare professionals, managers and users... -
Clinician Scientist Fellowships
Our Clinician Scientist Fellowships provide five-year funding for academic research proposals that will improve patient care. -
Closing the Gap through Changing Relationships
Closing the Gap through Changing Relationships aims to transform the dynamic between people who use health services and those who provide them. -
Closing the Gap through Clinical Communities
The focus for this Closing the Gap programme is on quality improvement projects led by clinicians who have a track record as influential leaders in their clinical networks. -
Co-creating Health
This programme has been designed to achieve measurable improvements in the quality of life of patients with a long term condition and to improve their experience of the healthcare system b... -
Developing Patient Safety in Primary Care
This programme is working in parallel with the Scottish Quality & Safety Improvement in Primary Care Closing the Gap project and will build expertise, experience and knowledge about patien... -
Family and Patient-centred Care
The Patient and Family-centred Care programme is a partnership with The King’s Fund. It’s breaking new ground in improving the experience of hospital care for patients and their ... -
Flow, Safety, Cost
This programme focuses on the relationship between patient flow, costs and outcomes in two NHS hospital trusts. It is examining patient flow through the emergency care pathway and developing... -
GenerationQ
GenerationQ is our flagship leadership programme. It aims to create a group of enthusiasts for quality improvement who will work with the Health Foundation on an ongoing basis to champion ... -
Hospital Pathways programme
Our Hospital Pathways programme will demonstrate how the health service can achieve its aim of putting the patient at the centre of everything we do. It is run in partnership with The King... -
Improvement Science Fellowships
This programme is a new and innovative kind of fellowship, which will provide four fellows with a unique mix of research funding, leadership development, and access to an international netwo... -
Improving Healthcare Quality in Malawi
Our work in Malawi - the MaiKhanda programme - has been running since 2006. It aims to reduce by 30% the number of maternal and neonatal deaths in the Lilongwe, Kasungu and Salima districts ... -
Improving the Primary Care Response to Domestic Violence
This two-year programme began in June 2010 and involves encouraging commissioning of the IRIS mode (supporting GP practices to help them identify and refer patients who are experiencing dome... -
Improving the safety of maternity services
The aim of this programme of work is to improve the safety and reliability of obstetrics and midwifery through a teamwork solution, by developing exceptional clinical leadership skills, te... -
MAGIC: Shared decision making
MAGIC (Making Good Decisions in Collaboration) is a programme which explores how shared decision making can be embedded into clinical practice as a core part of mainstream health services. -
PRIMO
We are now preparing to implement and test the PRIMO tool more widely in four diverse healthcare settings. This work will focus on identifying key factors for successful implementation, re... -
Quality Improvement Fellowships
The prestigious Quality Improvement Fellowships programme allows clinically qualified senior NHS professionals to become equipped with the tools and techniques of quality improvement by spen... -
Safer Clinical Systems
Our Safer Clinical Systems programme takes a fresh and proactive approach to safety improvement. Rather than learning from harm and failure once it has occurred, the programme helps healthca... -
Safer Patients Network
Our Safer Patients Network is a vibrant, self-sustaining, innovative group of organisations. They test, develop and explore ways of building improvement skills and making healthcare safer fo... -
Shared Purpose
Our Shared Purpose programme will work with up to eight award holder teams who understand the value of aligning staff in corporate support and frontline services around a common purpose: con... -
Shine 2010
Our annual Shine programme aims to stimulate thinking, activity and the development of innovative approaches that will improve healthcare quality. It gives teams the space and encouragement ... -
Shine 2011
Each year our Shine programme focuses on a different aspect of healthcare quality that reflects a key issue facing the UK health service. The 2011 Shine challenge is to find new approaches t... -
Structuring a Business Case for Quality Improvement
There are currently no tested models to assess the business case for quality improvement initiatives. A business case model would help departments and organisations illustrate the potential ... -
Supporting networks to improve quality in healthcare
We are seeking applicants with a passion for improving healthcare who have a clear idea for a network they would like to set up or who are already running an established network with a goa... -
Working with Strategic Health Authorities
This programme has been designed to help SHAs develop their patient safety infrastructure, test different programmes and increase understanding of measures that can be used to spread safety ...
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Recent publications
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Involving junior doctors in quality improvement (research scan)
This research scan looks at the factors that help and hinder their involvement. -
Annual Review 2010
What we’ve achieved, sharing our learning and explaining the challenges.
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Getting out of hospital?
The evidence for shifting acute inpatient & day case services from hospitals into the community.
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Making care safer
Improving medication safety for people in care homes: thoughts & experiences from carers and relatives.
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New medical professionalism
This report looks at medicial professionalism - how it has changed, is changing and may need to change.
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Co-creating Health: developing partnerships
This video gives an overview of our Co-creating Health programme and how it develops partnerships between patients and health professionals.
Watch other videos about Co-creating Health in our self management support section
Kevin Stewart, one of our Quality Improvement Fellows, returned from his year at the IHI last summer. Click the play button below to her him talk about his experiences while in the US, and what he's taken away from his time there.
Listen to other Fellows on their time abroad
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