Donna Hickford
Donna Hickford joined The Health Foundation as a Portfolio Manager on 8 March 2022.
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Simulation: improving patient outcomes
Effective training has been shown to improve perinatal care and outcome, decrease litigation claims and reduce midwifery sick leave. To be effective, training should be incentivised, in a realistic co...
Explaining Matching Michigan: an ethnographic study of a patient safety program
Background: Quality and safety improvement initiatives in healthcare often display two disconcerting effects. The first is a failure to outperform the secular trend. The second is the decline effect,...
Making an Impact? The Emergence of Improvement Science in Healthcare
At an international level, public, political and economic pressures are increasing awareness of the high level of variation in the quality of health care provision. This knowledge has brought with it ...
Spring Statement 2022: What does rising inflation mean for health and social care?
With the public finances squeezed by higher inflation, we look at what the Spring Statement could mean for health and social care funding pressures.
Deflation of gastric band balloon in pregnancy for improving outcomes
Background: In line with the rise in the prevalence of obesity, an increasing number of women of childbearing age are undergoing laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding (LAGB), resulting in an incre...
Why NHS management matters
Joe Home talks about how managers are often an unseen and under-appreciated segment of the health care workforce, and yet good management is key if we want to run high quality and efficient services.....
Improving hospital discharge in England: the case for continued focus and support
What’s the future of the ‘discharge to assess’ model for hospitals? Tim Horton and Suzanne Wood draw on Health Foundation research to explore how to make it work well.
Real time monitoring of risk-adjusted paediatric cardiac surgery outcomes using variable life-adjusted display: implementation in three UK centres
Objective: To implement routine in-house monitoring of risk-adjusted 30-day mortality following paediatric cardiac surgery. Design: Collaborative monitoring software development and implementatio...
