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In situ simulation training helps detect safety threats and increases teamwork

10 May 2013
In this month’s BMJ Quality and Safety the headline article analyses in situ simulations for teamwork training in a high risk emergency department.

New Chief Executive sought

05 April 2013
The current Chief Executive Stephen Thornton plans to retire at the end of 2013 following 12 highly successful years at the Health Foundation.

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt commends innovative Shine project

27 March 2013
An innovative project that used Skype for follow-up outpatient appointments with diabetic patients has been commended by Secretary of State for Health, Jeremy Hunt, in a speech on innovation.

The Health Foundation calls for a statutory duty of candour

22 March 2013
We have written to Jeremy Hunt to call for a statutory duty of candour.

Clinician Scientist Fellowships now open for application

18 March 2013
The next round of the Clinician Scientist Fellowships programme, which enables talented clinicians to pursue academic research alongside clinical practice, is now open for application.

New online tool to improve perineal repair

06 March 2013
A joint project by the Universities of Birmingham and Staffordshire, funded by our Shine programme, has developed a new online training package to assist midwives and obstetricians carry out medical procedures to help women who have sustained a perin...

Correlations in feedback data for hospital ratings in the USA

20 February 2013
In this month’s BMJ Quality and Safety the headline article compares the hospital ratings on commercial websites to formal hospital performance measures:

PhD Awards for Improvement Science funding announced

13 February 2013
The Health Foundation has funded eight universities through the PhD Awards for Improvement Science. Each organisation will support two PhD students in the long-term development of improvement science.

New materials on kidney disease for clinicians

17 January 2013
ENABLE-CKD, one of our Closing the Gap projects, has produced a new set of materials for clinicians on the subject of kidney disease.

Do not resuscitate orders made clearer by armband redesign

14 January 2013
The headline article in this month’s BMJ Quality and Safety focuses on improvements in identifying and documenting patient’s resuscitation wishes: · Honouring patient’s resuscitation wishes: a multiphased effort to impr...
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