‘Discharge to assess’ at Sheffield Frailty Unit
As part of its involvement in the Health Foundation’s Flow Cost Quality programme, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has overhauled the emergency care pathway for frail older patien...
Putting patients at the heart of improvement
We talk to Annie Laverty, Director of Patient Experience at Northumbria Healthcare Trust, about her leadership approach and ask how successful patient and staff engagement can help create a support...
Improving the quality of care for older people
A look at how Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have begun understand how, as an entire organisation, they could use a different approach to address quality and safety challenges, s...
Compassion, dignity and respect in health care
Hiro Tanaka and colleagues from Aneurin Bevan University Health Board on the value they place on compassion in delivering care, what compassion means to them and how they incorporate it in their da...
What do compassion, dignity and respect mean to you?
We asked a range of health care professionals and patients to tell us what they understood by the words 'compassion, dignity and respect'.
Care and compassion in the NHS
The Health Service Ombudsman’s report on ten investigations into NHS care of older people has provoked an understandable, but wearingly familiar, wave of shock and media outrage. The Ombudsman is n...
Bringing health care home
Led by Airedale NHS Foundation Trust and supported by partner organisations, this project aimed to improve the safety and quality of care for patients in their last year of life. The team are provi...
Practical learning and tips to put people and communities at the heart of wellbeing
The Realising the Value programme conducted analysis of the evidence for person-centred and community-centred approaches for health and wellbeing, working with five frontline sites across England, ...
4:00-5:00pm, 12 Dec 2016Health Foundation project wins prestigious Training Journal award
A clinical team from Yorkshire and the Humber has won the award for Best Public Sector programme at the prestigious Training Journal awards this week. They also secured second place in the Best Par...
Whittington Health wins health care awards
A Health Foundation supported programme has won two awards for improving the management of long-term conditions, including diabetes. Whittington Health, which provides hospital and community ser...
