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New challenges inspire new ideas: new round of Shine opening soon
Date published: 26 April 2012We'll be looking for examples of smart ideas from across the health service and the ability to put together an innovation trial to develop and test that thinking.
New programme to provide expertise in implementing self management support within local services
Date published: 05 April 2012The Health Foundation has set up a Self Management Support Fellows programme for clinicians and non-clinical staff involved in our Co-creating Health programme.
Give us your views on our self management support resources
Date published: 02 April 2012Have you used our self management support resource centre? If you haven't, are you interested in the area of self management support? We're running a short survey to get your feedback and you can enter a prize draw to win a year's journal subscriptio...
NICE guidance urgently needed to support self management
Date published: 20 March 2012The Health Foundation is calling for clear guidelines and standards to be developed on self management support for patients.
Whittington Health wins award for Co-creating Health
Date published: 15 March 2012Whittington Health has won a national Diabetes Quality in Care Award for its work on the Health Foundation's Co-creating Health programme. The award, which recognised the best initiative for supporting self care, particularly praised Whittingon Healt...
Dutch experience shows popularity of personal health budgets, but Health Foundation urges caution
Date published: 06 July 2011Research published by the Health Foundation today reveals the popularity of personal health budgets in the Netherlands, but analysis of the Dutch experience signals a warning for the English pilot programme.
Comment on government response to NHS Future Forum – radical shift is needed to put power in patients’ hands
Date published: 14 June 2011Responding to the government’s statement on the NHS listening exercise, the Health Foundation called on the government to push forward with a more sophisticated approach to choice which is about genuine involvement in care for all.
The Health Foundation responds to the White Paper
Date published: 18 October 2010The Health Foundation has responded to the White Paper consultation ‘Equity and excellence: Liberating the NHS’, welcoming the focus on putting patients at the centre of health services.
Ambitious new programme will encourage shared decision making between patients and clinicians
Date published: 02 October 2010Making shared decisions the norm, where patients and clinicians work together in partnership to choose the most appropriate treatments or care management options, is the aim of an ambitious new programme launched today by the Health Foundation.
Volunteer of the Year
Date published: 06 September 2010Donald McIntosh has won Volunteer of the Year at the Ayrshire and Arran awards for his work on the Health Foundation’s Co-creating Health programme.
Putting shared decision making into practice
Date published: 06 September 2010Shared Decision Making, the Health Foundation’s new programme, is seeking a multi-disciplinary design team to explore how shared decision making can best be implemented into clinical practice.
GP won over by Co-creating Health
Date published: 06 September 2010A GP has told BMA News that Co-creating Health’s Advanced Development Programme (ADP) has profoundly changed the way she works with patients.
A tribute to Bob Sang
Date published: 06 September 2010Bob Sang, a great friend and contributor to the Health Foundation, passed away on Friday 5 June, aged just 61, after a short illness.
London leads the way in innovative healthcare change
Date published: 11 August 2010London is today at the centre of changes in healthcare that aim to radically alter the traditional doctor/patient relationship and help people with long-term medical conditions take control of their lives.
£5 million award scheme launches to improve management of long-term conditions
Date published: 11 August 2010A ground-breaking new initiative designed to improve the health and healthcare of people with long-term conditions has been launched by The Health Foundation.
Supplement on transforming relationships launched in today's HSJ
Date published: 16 July 2010The Health Foundation has launched a new supplement today in the Health Service Journal that explores how transforming the relationship between people who use services and those who provide them can be a driver for improving quality.
