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This month, a National Audit Office report suggested that the implementation of the Better Care Fund – a policy pooling health and social care budgets at a local level – has so far failed to ease pres...
A few weeks after I started at the Health Foundation, I was sat in a room surrounded by experts discussing the financial and societal challenges facing welfare systems in different European countries....
Twelve months ago, the Health Foundation set out to explore our contribution to enabling everyone in the UK to live a healthy life. Starting with an international seminar in Salzburg, the year unfolde...
It's no secret that health and care systems all over the world are under pressure and organisations are facing increasingly complex challenges. Some of the current approaches to tackling these challen...
The end of last year saw the publication of a significant new policy document: the National Quality Board’s (NQB’s) Shared commitment to quality. You may not be hugely familiar with the NQB: the Bo...
Calls for new ways to use information to support better health services are fairly common. However, much less attention is paid to the skilled analysts who can make sense of the data being produced. I...
Twelve years ago I received a phone call. I was working for a national body responsible for investigating concerns about serious care failures. The caller suspected that people with learning disabilit...
Much has already been said and written about the weekend effect, particularly in the context of a rather polarised debate about the merits of seven day working in the NHS. At times it has felt that th...
‘We talk about the federal deficit, but we don’t talk enough about the empathy deficit’ said Barack Obama when he was running for President eight years ago. He was lamenting the decline in compassion ...
Relish isn't quite the word when watching 'Pete Tong presents Ibiza Classics' on a night out the other week – I was totally absorbed. What struck me was how he was also absorbed, even after 30 years. ...
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