Effect on secondary care of providing enhanced support to residential and nursing home residents
A subgroup analysis of a retrospective matched cohort study
5,086 matches
Improving Lung Cancer Outcomes Project (ILCOP)
Led by Dr Ian Woolhouse and Dr Mick Peake of the Royal College of Physicians, this project aimed to raise standards of lung cancer care to a consistent level across the UK. The project team developed ...
Evolving quality improvement support strategies to improve Plan-Do-Study-Act cycle fidelity
A retrospective mixed-methods study
Improving the quality of cardiovascular care by ambulance services
Led by East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust, in collaboration with the University of Lincoln, and working across all Ambulance trusts in England, this project aimed to improve services for people...
Primary care networks and the deprivation challenge
The newly emerging PCNs provide an opportunity to tackle health inequalities in England but they will have to be careful to avoid perpetuating the problem.
The Fallsafe project
This project aimed to ensure that simple guidelines are implemented in hospital wards to reduce the incidence of patient falls.
Ambition, collaboration and creativity: learning from health improvement communities in the US
How do you bring patients, the public and health care professionals together to improve care? Sam Thomas reflects on learning from the US.
The local health environment
The CMO’s annual report 2019 considers what the state of the public’s health in England in 2040 could look like. The Health Foundation was invited to author a chapter setting out a vision for the crea...
Acute assessment for children
Aimed to improve the experience of patients arriving at Accident and Emergency (A&E) with abdominal pain, this project focused on reviewing the whole patient pathway from presentation at A&E, to eithe...
The Health Foundation selects three research projects for programme exploring the use of behavioural insights in health care
The programme supports research that designs, tests and evaluates behavioural interventions that can improve efficiency and reduce waste within health care services in the UK.
