Championing safety and quality improvement
In 2001 Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust was a poorly performing trust. Today, it is widely considered the leading trust in safety and quality improvement. It has won a host of awards, most recen...
Webinar: Practical steps for boards - how to measure and monitor safety within your organisation
This webinar with Maxine Power and Penny Pereira explores the practical steps boards can take to effectively measure and monitor quality and safety within their organisations.
Alf Collins: Measuring what matters to patients at the front line
Alf Collins discusses the approaches needed to measure what matters to individual patients, as opposed to measures for resource allocation, system quality or accountability.
Slideshow: Hard data and soft intelligence - how can we know care is safe?
Professor Mary Dixon-Woods takes a look at the history of safety measurement through to the modern day and how different methods of measurement can yield varying results. She also reinforces that n...
Webinar: The measurement and monitoring of safety
Professor Charles Vincent talks through a framework for measuring and monitoring safety and answers questions from participants.
Katherine Fenton on managing safety proactively
Professor Katherine Fenton talks about managing safety proactively and how the Health Foundation's measuring and monitoring of safety framework can be used to achieve this.
Webinar: The benefits and challenges of evaluating improvements
In this webinar, Dr Laura Leviton addresses the concept of ‘evaluability assessment’, a useful exploratory stage to determine whether an initiative is mature enough to be evaluated. Professor Nick ...
Slideshow: What we know about how to improve quality and safety in hospitals
Professor Mary Dixon-Woods looks at improving the quality and safety of care in hospitals, and suggests that we need to take a three-pronged approach: ensuring we are collecting the right data and ...
General practice quality indicators FAQs
Below are Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about the General practice quality indicators review. For more information about the Health Foundation, please read our organisational FAQs. Is the...
Chart: An increasing proportion of premature deaths in the UK are 'preventable'
September 2015 chart of the month. Both preventable and premature mortality are falling, however preventable mortality is falling much more slowly.
