Publications
This section includes our briefings, research reports, evaluation reports and consultation responses
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Corporate publication
Developing leaders to improve patient care
Developing leaders to improve patient care is a statement about The Health Foundation's leadership programmes
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Briefing
Co-creating Health
This briefing paper describes The Health Foundation's Co-creating Health initiaitve and outlines the need for an effective integrated approach to self-management support. It also includes early experiences from the Co-creating Health teams.
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Research report
Further evidence on the link between healthcare spending and health outcomes in England
This report examines the link between healthcare spending and health outcomes across primary care trusts. It uses data prepared by the trusts to examine years of life lost across programmes of care. These include cancer, circulation problems, neurological, respiratory and gastro-intestinal.
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Research report
Bridging the quality gap
Stroke is the third biggest killer in the UK yet our stroke care lags behind other developed nations. The Health Foundation’s report Bridging the quality gap is a thorough exploration of the quality of our stroke care. Despite the national priority accorded to stroke, services in the UK are not as high quality as they should be.
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Consultation response
Developing the annual health check in 2008/09
The annual health check assesses how well NHS trusts perform during the financial year. Our comments focus on the Healthcare Commission’s development of a new methodology for annual visits to acute trusts in order to measure compliance with the Hygiene Code.
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Research report
Financial incentives, healthcare providers and quality improvements
Within healthcare there has been a longstanding interest in how the type and amount of payment to healthcare organisations and practitioners affects the type and amount of services received by consumers and, ultimately, the costs of healthcare to individuals, employers, insurers and governments. There has been an equally longstanding interest in how the cost of health services to consumers affects the services they seek out and use, along with the implications of this for overall costs at various levels of aggregation. But there has been much less attention devoted by researchers to the impact of financial incentives on the quality of care.
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Briefing
Safe from harm
How The Health Foundation's Safer Patients Initiative is reducing medical incidents in 24 hospitals and making healthcare safer for patients
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Consultation response
NHS Next Stage Review
In our response to 'Our NHS, Our Future', we make ten recommendations to the Department of Health to achieve a truly systematic and patient-centred approach to improving the quality and safety of care in the NHS.
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Briefing
Leading lights
Good leadership is widely recognised as being central to the delivery of effective healthcare, yet surprisingly little has been done to develop effective approaches to leadership development for people in mid career – the leaders of tomorrow – in the NHS.
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Briefing
Team spirit
The development of leaders in healthcare is widely recognised as being integral to improving the quality of care for patients. However, where traditional leadership development focuses on an individual it is becoming increasingly accepted that all team members need to be involved if lasting improvements are to be achieved.