The year ahead: what and why
Our chief executive takes us on a quick tour of the work the Health Foundation has planned in 2022 across our three main areas of focus.
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How Well Is Quality Improvement Described in the Perioperative Care Literature? A Systematic Review
Background: Quality improvement (QI) approaches are widely used across health care, but how well they are reported in the academic literature is not clear. A systematic review was conducted to assess ...
Taking a longer term look at the Health Foundation’s strategy
Cathy Irving tells us about the key questions to be explored to ensure our work contributes to better health and care for people in the UK.
Funding, news and events from January 2022
The latest funding, news and events from the Health Foundation.
Contextual barriers to implementation in primary care: an ethnographic study of a programme to improve chronic kidney disease care
Background: Context is important in implementation—we know that what works in one setting may not work in the same way elsewhere. Primary care has been described as a unique context both in relation t...
Webinar: Learning from international health care system responses to COVID-19
What can we learn from the approaches other countries have taken to the pandemic to help inform health policy for the future?
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Making visible the unseen elements of nursing
The traditional image of nurses as caregivers needs revision but this is challenging as much nursing work cannot easily be explained. This article summarises the main findings from a large-scale study...
Measures to boost employment could force people into low quality work and lead to poorer health
Health Foundation response to the Department of Work and Pensions' announcement of new measures to boost employment.
If government is serious about ‘levelling up’, it must overhaul funding for general practice
New report calls for government action on GP funding and workforce shortages to tackle unfair differences between richer and poorer areas
Healthcare quality and safety: a review of policy, practice and research
Over the last two decades healthcare quality and safety have risen to the fore of health policy and research. This has largely been informed by theoretical and empirical ideas found in the fields of e...
