Research reports
Including reports from our QQUIP project, the results of our surveys and more
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Community engagement
This report explores the concept of community engagement in itself before addressing some of the barriers which exist in trying to ensure a particular community takes up various health services.
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Engaging communities for health improvement
This report looks at how such community engagement projects can help to encourage members of the public to become involved in healthcare issues.
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Implementing shared decision making in the UK
New report explores how shared decision making can be embedded into clinical practice as a core part of mainstream health services.
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Evidence in brief: How safe are clinical systems?
While the knowledge that poor systems can cause harm is not new, this report provides groundbreaking evidence of the extent to which important clinical systems and processes fail, and the potential these failings have to harm patients.
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Bridging the quality gap: heart failure
This report provides a comprehensive review of existing heart failure care by assessing quality in six domains: effectiveness, access and timeliness, capacity, safety, patient centredness and equity. It also captures the international evidence on what works to improve care, and assesses the value for money of different interventions.
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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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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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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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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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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.