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