Collaborating on the wider determinants of health
Liz Cairncross reflects on some common themes and learning from the Health Foundation’s first grant programme in the public health space.
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Staff engagement the Leeds Way
Anna Edgren-Davies is Senior HR Manager at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust where she has overseen work to improve staff engagement since 2014.
No let up for staff or patients with NHS facing historic levels of pressure
The Health Foundation response to the February 2022 release of the NHS's monthly performance statistics.
How to study improvement interventions: a brief overview of possible study types
Improvement (defined broadly as purposive efforts to secure positive change) has become an increasingly important activity and field of inquiry within healthcare. This article offers an overview of po...
Tackling the drug problem in the UK and Portugal – with Dame Carol Black and Dr João Castel-Branco Goulão
Episode 17. Like many countries, the UK has a growing drug problem. The UK government's approach is to tackle drugs as a criminal justice matter focused on punishment, rather than a public health matt...
Refining prognosis and identifying targetable pathways for high-risk endometrial cancer; a TransPORTEC initiative
This study aimed to investigate whether molecular analysis can be used to refine risk assessment, direct adjuvant therapy, and identify actionable alterations in high-risk endometrial cancer. TransPOR...
Gwen Nightingale and Katherine Merrifield
Gwen Nightingale and Katherine Merrifield are are joint Assistant Directors in the Healthy Lives team, working as job-share partners.
Understanding the occupational and organizational boundaries to safe hospital discharge
Objective: Safe hospital discharge relies upon communication and coordination across multiple occupational and organizational boundaries. Our aim was to understand how these boundaries can exacerbate ...
Demystifying theory and its use in improvement
The role and value of theory in improvement work in healthcare has been seriously underrecognised. We join others in proposing that more informed use of theory can strengthen improvement programmes an...
Better data is crucial to understanding ethnic inequalities in health care
Health Foundation comment on the NHS Race & Health Observatory report on ethnic inequalities in health care.
