Problem: The Commission on Information and Accountability for Women's and Children's Health of the World Health Organization (WHO) reported that national health outcome data were often of questionable...
Our response to the House of Lords vote to reject the government’s amendment to the Care Act.
Our response to the Health and Social Care Secretary’s ‘vision for long-term NHS reform’.
Introduction: Risk management is a core part of healthcare practice, especially within maternity services, where litigation and societal costs are high. There has been little investigation into the ex...
Carrie Hume, new Head of the Collaboration for Wellbeing and Health, explains her interest in health inequalities, and why public campaigning is so important.
Background: hospitals are under pressure to reduce waiting times and costs. One strategy that may be effective focuses on optimising the flow of emergency patients. Objective: we undertook a patien...
The Health Foundation response to the March 2022 release of the NHS's monthly performance statistics.
NHS performance data tell a clear story of rising pressures, with longer waits and other red flags of declining performance. But do we really understand the reasons why?
Background: Plan–do–study–act (PDSA) cycles provide a structure for iterative testing of changes to improve quality of systems. The method is widely accepted in healthcare improvement; however there i...
Our response to the Health and Social Care Committee's inquiry on the future of General Practice
