Competition policy in five European countries
Focuses on the use of competition policies in health systems across five European countries (France, Germany, Norway, the Netherlands, Portugal), and how learning from these countries can be applied t...
Projects we fund We fund hundreds of improvement and research projects around the UK looking for ways to improve the quality of health services
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On the brink: Identifying, integrating and responding to the early warnings of organisational failure
Project led by the University of Oxford and supported by the Health Foundation’s Policy Challenge Fund. Focuses on how to detect and respond to the early signals of failures in health care, before ris...
Population change and the provision and use of NHS maternity services
Project led by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) and supported by the Health Foundation’s Policy Challenge Fund. Due summer 2016. Focuses on understanding how NHS services respond to increased ...
Changing together – brokering constructive conversations
Project led by the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), PPL and the Institute for Government; supported by the Health Foundation’s Policy Challenge Fund. Due summer 2016. Focuses on how best t...
‘Hospitals Must Close’: A four system comparison of policy for constructive conversations on controversial service changes
Project led by the University of Edinburgh and supported by the Health Foundation’s Policy Challenge Fund. Due autumn 2016. Aims to increase understanding of good policy and practice in closing hospit...
Public sector failure: Lessons for health care policymakers
Project led by the University of Leicester and supported by the Health Foundation’s Policy Challenge Fund. Due autumn 2016. Focuses on how failure is identified, managed and prevented in non-health pu...
Video-based communication research and training in decision-making in supportive and palliative care (VERDIS)
Two year research project on shared decision making in end of life settings. Working with the Sue Ryder Care Centre for the Study of Supportive, Palliative and End of Life Care at the University of No...
Devolving health and social care
A two-phase research project from the University of Manchester. The first phase is gathering evidence of the effects of devolution of health and social care on health care utilisation and quality, car...
Independent qualitative evaluation of the feasibility of using the Patient Activation Measure in the NHS in England
Will be studying activities in connection with the pilot of the PAM in 5 CCGs and the Renal Registry creating six case studies.
Spreading the capability to improve patients’ and carers’ experiences of end-of-life care in one NHS region using a collaborative peer-to-peer method
This Spreading Improvement project looks to improve end-of-life care using the methodology of the Patient and Family-Centred Care (PFCC) programme. This project, led by the Point of Care Foundation, w...
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