(Re-)read the Berwick report recently? While it perhaps didn't get much profile beyond improvement enthusiasts when it came out, I find people are increasingly referring to it. Perhaps this is beca...
'What gets measured gets done' – a well-established mantra, and with good reason. But I’m not entirely comfortable with the implication that results always neatly follow from applying focus and pre...
As an organisation that has led patient safety efforts in the UK over the past 10 years, at the Health Foundation we know that it’s a marathon, not a sprint. Health care delivery encompasses man...
Today, new safety data will be published on the NHS Choices website. The data will cover various aspects of safety at individual organisations – data that has not been previously easily accessible ...
It can be really tricky to get better at something. Sometimes it’s even trickier to know if, when, and how much you’re actually getting better. But there are some things you can do to make improvem...
No-one would claim that changing culture is easy, but it is possible. And in light of Robert Francis’s latest report we know that there is still much to be done if we are to create the learning cul...
Clinical practitioners are no strangers to change. A major challenge facing any clinician in the 21st century is staying abreast of their field of work. With the so called ‘half-life’ of clinical s...
Each day travelling into the office, I join the ranks of people taking the bus, tube, train, cycling or walking into central London. Many of us create a trail of data in our wake; beautifully visua...
Earlier in the summer the Secretary of State for Health announced that the Health Foundation would be reviewing indicators of the quality of general practice in England. Our independent review is n...
Led by Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust in partnership with the Postgraduate Medical Institute at Anglia Ruskin University, this project aimed to provide a cost-effective way for surgical team...
