An independent evaluation of the first phase of our Co-creating Health improvement programme, which aimed to demonstrate the impact of integrating self-management support into routine care for people with long term conditions.

This report explores challenges to improving quality in healthcare that emerged from a synthesis of 14 Health Foundation improvement programme evaluations. The report identifies 10 key challenges - and suggests ways to overcome them.

In 2011, the story of healthcare has been one of turmoil and uncertainty. Financial constraints and changing needs and expectations mean that changes to the way healthcare is provided are unavoidable. But, in the face of heated debate around NHS refo...

Medication errors are one of the most common causes of patient harm and prescribing accounts for a large proportion of medication errors. This evidence scan examines strategies to reduce prescribing errors.

The Health Foundation hosted a summit to consider what must be done to make a reality of ‘no decision about me, without me’. The summit identified that, as champion of patient and carer involvement, the NHS Commissioning Board has a cr...

MAGIC (making good decisions in collaboration) is testing an approach to embedding shared decision making in everyday practice. This snapshot provides an overview of the programme and explains why shared decision making is important.

This case study looks in detail at three improvement projects that received support from our Shine 2010 programme. They aimed to introduce innovations, redesign services, improve patient care and identify savings for their local health services. We l...

The Health Foundation hosted a roundtable event to discuss current thinking about the challenges of evaluating complex interventions to improve the quality of healthcare. Senior figures from the field of improvement science came together to share the...