Email newsletter
We send out our email newsletter approximately once a month, and each issue is focussed around a specific healthcare theme. You can read some of the items from our email newsletters below.
- View April 2012 issue
- View March 2012 issue
- View February 2012 issue
- View January 2012 issue
- View December 2011 issue
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Newsletter features
Reframing the relationship between science and improvement
Passionate about the potential of improvement science to improve the NHS and patient care, Dr Julie Reed joined our Improvement Science Fellowship in 2011. It’s a three-year scheme to develop original, applied research dedicated to improving he...
New research scan will be a valuable resource
The Health Foundation is getting ready to launch an exciting new service for anyone interested in developments in improvement science. Jonathan Bamber, Research and Development Manager, who has helped develop the new research database and monthly sca...
Improvement science: finding the evidence to support healthcare improvement
The need for a solid evidence base to support healthcare improvement is now stronger than ever. At the Health Foundation we aim to build a practical and accessible body of knowledge about what works to improve healthcare. We also want to help those w...
Learning from innovation around the world
The IPIHD is a relatively new organisation that aims to identify, learn from and support the scale up of innovative models of healthcare delivery across the globe. We spoke to Natalie Grazin, who is currently on secondment from the Health Foundation,...
Trialling web-based diabetes consultations
DAWN is an innovative project funded by the Health Foundation’s Shine 2011 programme. It aims to transform diabetes care, replacing routine outpatient appointments where no physical examination is required, with web-based consultations. Shanti ...
Innovation is a state of mind
The Government launched its new strategy for innovation in the NHS at the end of last year, outlining their ambition to spread innovation ’at pace and scale’ throughout the health service. With no increase in health budgets, and hard fina...
Can austerity and innovation go hand in hand?
Each year, the Health Foundation’s Shine programme challenges healthcare teams to improve the quality of services while also obtaining value for money, creating the space for innovation at a local level. This has proved a successful approach. I...
Facing up to the cold hard reality
Everyone understands the need to achieve value for money, especially during these hard financial times. We do this every day when we’re out shopping, choosing cheaper brands to shave a few pounds off our overall supermarket shop. But accepting ...
STAR: combining value for money with patient involvement
The STAR programme aims to help with the difficult challenge of making cuts to budgets while also ensuring patient choice and satisfaction - something every new clinical commissioning group (CCG) will face in coming months. How can NHS organisations ...
Getting more from the collective energy of healthcare networks
The Health Foundation believes that networks that unite people around shared interests, goals or challenges have a fundamental role to play in implementing change and in improving the quality of healthcare.
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