Topics

01. Leadership

Find out how our leadership work focuses on developing leaders specifically to improve the quality of care for patients

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02. Patient safety

Our new safety programme – Safer Clinical Systems – aims to improve the underlying systems that support the delivery of healthcare

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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

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04. Patient engagement

Our Co-creating Health initiative aims to change the patient-clinician relationship to one of partnership and embed self-management support

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05. Clinical measurement

Our Engaging with Quality schemes aim to measure how patients are treated now and help healthcare professionals improve their practices

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Latest news

In focus

Research reports

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.   

Scheme

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.

Current work

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.

Leaflet

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.