Publications
This section lists all our publications. You can search the index by keyword, topic or date.
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Research report
Revision of professional roles and quality improvement: a review of the evidence
Our latest Quality Enhancing Intervention report considers the impact of professional role revision on quality of care.
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Research report
Commissioning health
This report, based on preliminary research which brings together a range of economic analysis methods, compares the efficiency of the English PCTs in producing a valued output; the health of their populations, in relation to the costs expended, as measured through programme budgeting data.
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Briefings & leaflet
Commissioning with the Community
Commissioning with the Community describes an exciting and effective approach to priority setting that has been developed and tested to help commissioners make robust decisions with the support of their community.
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Consultation response
Quality Accounts consultation response
This document sets out the Health Foundation's response to the Department of Health’s consultation on Quality accounts.
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Research report
Safety and risk management in hospitals
This systematic review synthesises the evidence on the effectiveness of detection, mitigation and actions to reduce risks in hospitals and identifies and describes components of interventions responsible for effectiveness.
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Research report
Patient care teams
This systematic review groups studies according to the particular objectives of the teams. By aggregating the results to these subgroups, the authors aimed to draw some headline measures about the effectiveness of different types of teams.
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Briefings & leaflet
Engaging clinicians in quality improvement
This update explains our approach to engaging clinicians in quality improvement.
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Consultation response
The Healthcare Quality strategy for Scotland: response from the Health Foundation
This consultation response sets out the Health Foundation’s comments on NHS Scotland's draft strategy to create high quality person-centred, clinically effective and safe healthcare services.
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Research report
The Health Foundation’s position statement on effective leadership development
This report seeks to deepen our understanding of the nature of those leadership development interventions that are most likely to develop the skills and competences associated with quality improvement.
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Consultation response
The personal ownership of health records
The Health Foundation commissioned a literature review in 2009 to examine what happens when patients are given more access to their health records.