People’s views on the NHS
The NHS might be 'the closest thing the English have to a religion'. To an extent this is true - but people’s views are much more mixed across the topics we polled them on.
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Our most recent blogs
Social care funding crisis
Each party manifesto makes promises on social care, but how far do these go towards fixing the problem?
Pushing the frontiers of improvement research
Since 2010 the Health Foundation has been investing in and promoting improvement research; the work they have supported has improved care and altered national policy. We are delighted that the Foundat...
How research is creating new knowledge and insight
The pursuit of knowledge and discovery has always been an intrinsic human characteristic, but when new knowledge is curated and put in the right hands it has the power to bring about high value change...
Social determinants of health
Each of the election manifestos paints a vision of a better society, but through the lens of the factors that are the root causes of ill health, they make less sense.
Reflections of a hospital doctor on the challenges of maintaining high quality care in the current climate
Are the pressures on NHS and social care staff having a detrimental effect on the quality of care patients receive?
Mental health providers need more than kind words
Mental health problems affect 1 in 4 people each year – yet only £1 out of £8 in commissioner budgets is spent on mental health.
Could social franchising help to solve the problem of scale up within the NHS?
The International Centre for Social Franchising (ICSF) was born out of frustration that successful solutions often fail to scale, so social organisations waste scarce resources by needlessly reinventi...
What the manifestos might mean for health care funding
How much would be spent on the NHS in England under the different parties’ proposals?
Retention, recruitment and morale
There are few things that all political parties agree on in this general election. The need to focus on the health and social care workforce appears to be one of them.
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