Three projects chosen for research into system efficiency and sustainability in health and social care
Three new research projects have been awarded grants by the Health Foundation, as part of its £1.5 million Efficiency Research Programme.
Insight 2014: Combining physiological and biomedical data into a novel computer-aided risk score to support near real-time clinical decision-making
This project, led by the University of Bradford, is focusing on adult emergency admissions at two hospitals in the Yorkshire & Humberside region. It aims to reduce preventable deaths by making risk...
Insight 2014: Data integration for hospital unit quality monitoring and improvement
This project, led by King’s College London, focuses on the emergency department and the older person’s unit at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and aims to improve the monitoring of qualit...
Insight 2014: Data linkage across ambulance services and acute trusts: assessing the potential for improving patient care
This project, led by the London Ambulance Service, aims to link hospitals and ambulance service data to support improvements in patient care.
Insight 2014: Informatics to identify and inform best practice in out of hours secondary care
This project, led by the University of Nottingham, focuses on out-of-hours care at three NHS hospitals trusts and aims to increase understanding of clinical behaviour in out-of-hours secondary care...
Insight 2014: The repurposing of clinical data for quality improvement in critical care
This project led by the University of Cambridge, focusing on five critical care units in England and aims to explore how data routinely captured in clinical information systems (CIS) can be repurpo...
Using and removing national performance targets in the NHS
Undertaken by the policy team at the Health Foundation, this research aims to create a resource to support policymakers in setting better national performance targets for the NHS, and make more eff...
NHS Efficiency and Financial Performance
Annual research that evaluates NHS financial performance and efficiency in recent financial years.
Constructive comfort: accelerating change in the NHS
This research project considers how best to design national policy on the NHS to accelerate improvements to health care.
The future of NHS Providers: Impact of NHS Foundation Trust and NHS Trust legislative models
This research, undertaken by the Policy team at the Health Foundation, is looking at the impact of having two NHS provider legislative forms and what the options are for the future.
