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 chal...
I arrived in Orkney on a cold winter night in 2010. My journey across the sea had been particularly restless and choppy, much like the challenges that lay ahead in my new role as Chief Executive at...
Since the Health Foundation began running improvement programmes a decade ago, we’ve supported dozens of projects and fellowships in every region of England, and over a hundred in Northern Ireland,...
What were you doing in April 2015? Perhaps you were settling down to watch the live leaders’ debate. Or maybe you were cheering Oxford to victory in the first Women’s Boat Race to be staged alongsi...
Our final two days were spent in groups, developing and testing strategies that participants want to progress on return to their workplaces. The report out of these six groups provided some valuabl...
At Harvard Medical School I was exposed to a wide variety of hospitals, consultancies, and general practices as I completed each component of my physician training. As I rotated through each medica...
Last week, our Senior Policy Fellow, Felicity Dormon met with policymakers and practice leaders in mental health. They spent some time thinking about how out of hospital mental health care should i...
It’s Sunday evening, and I’m in charge of bed time – if not in control. ‘I’m emptying the boat!’ says my 4-year old, using her milk cup to hurl as much water as she can from the bath to the floor....
One of the aspects I most enjoy about my role at the Health Foundation is the opportunity to meet people from across the health service working on ideas to improve health care. Most recently, the F...
There has been great celebration surrounding the newly selected ‘vanguards’, the 29 areas touted as the beacons of hope in delivering the NHS Five Year Forward View. The vanguards have emerged from...
