Using communications approaches to spread improvement
Spreading successful improvement work across the NHS is an essential part of improving health car...
Translating improvement skills from training to implementation
We are looking for a research team to carry out original research into identifying the barriers and facilitators for translating acquired improvement skills and knowledge capability-building activi...
Developing and testing a framework to measure and monitor safety in healthcare
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Published journal: Clinical Risk
Did a quality improvement collaborative make stroke care better? A cluster randomized trial
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Published journal: Implementation Science
Using data and quality monitoring to enhance maternity outcomes: a qualitative study of risk managers’ perspectives
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Published journal: BMJ Quality & Safety
Hospital readmission rates: signal of failure or success?
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Published journal: Journal of Health Economics
Improvement science: finding the evidence to support healthcare improvement
At the Health Foundation we aim to build a practical and accessible body of knowledge about what works to improve healthcare. We also want to help those working in healthcare translate this knowled...
Reframing the relationship between science and improvement
We talk to Dr Julie Reed, one of our Improvement Science Fellows, about how she’s found the scheme and what she wants her research to achieve.
Systems capable of sustaining quality improvement in health care
How can we create systems which are resilient enough both to deliver high quality health care and to enable quality improvement efforts to thrive?
Evaluating healthcare quality improvement
Conducting detailed evaluation of improvement activity is key to our understanding of which meth...
