Programmes

Our programmes seek to test out new ideas for improving the quality of healthcare. Our aim is to take the best ideas – those that we can prove really make a difference to improving the quality and safety of patient care – and encourage uptake throughout the NHS.

  • Shared decision making: MAGIC

    Our shared decision making programme – MAGIC – explores how shared decision making can be embedded into clinical practice as a core part of mainstream health services.

  • Shine

    Shine is the Health Foundation's new annual award for smart thinking health professionals to test innovative interventions that deliver high quality care.

  • Co-creating Health

    Studies have shown that supporting self-management can lead to dramatically improved outcomes for patients. Despite this, it remains at the periphery of most health services. This self-management initiative aims to transform healthcare for people with long-term conditions.

  • Closing the Gap through Clinical Communities

    Closing the Gap through Clinical Communities awards will aim to improve the quality of care delivered to patients by bridging the gap between known best practice and the routine delivery of care.

  • Safer Clinical Systems

    Safer Clinical Systems launched in October 2008. The programme will test and demonstrate ways to improve healthcare systems or processes to systematically improve patient safety.

  • 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.

  • Stroke 90:10

    Stroke 90:10 is a two-year stroke improvement collaborative that aims to significantly change frontline practice and improve stroke care.

  • Engaging with Quality Initiative

    The Engaging with Quality Initiative aims to help healthcare professionals close the gap between current and best practice across clinical services.

  • Engaging with Quality in Primary Care

    This scheme is funding nine projects to engage primary care clinicians in quality improvement projects and, by doing so, increase capacity for improvements in clinical quality in primary care in the UK.

  • Flow, Cost, Quality

    Poor systems deliver poor results – for patients, NHS staff and taxpayers. This programme aims to understand the relationship between patient flow, cost and quality.