Jennifer Dixon explores the future of the NHS at inaugural NHS Confederation lecture
Health Foundation Chief Executive Dr Jennifer Dixon looks back on the last seven decades of the NHS, and how we can speed up the pace of improvement in future.
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Joining the dots: connecting behavioural insights to improvement, and to our humanity
Darshan Patel reflects on the lessons that behavioural insights offer to health care improvement.
Creating exceptional patient experience in hip fracture care
Run by Aneurin Bevan Health Board in Gwent, Wales, this project is improving standards of care for hip fracture patients at Royal Gwent Hospital, with a vision to become best in class. The team were p...
Acute medical care for frail older people in Barnsley
Run by Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, this project aimed at increasing the percentage of frail older people receiving the care they need in the most appropriate place and reducing the exposur...
Preventable deaths and deprivation
May 2019 chart of the month. The risk of preventable death is at least three times higher for people living in the most deprived 10% of local areas compared to those living in the least deprived 10% o...
Endoscopy pathway
Run by the Gastroenterology department at Great Ormond Street Hospital, this project focused on optimising patient and carer experience of the endoscopy pathway from decision to admit for investigatio...
The real cost of a fair adult social care system
Anita Charlesworth and Toby Watt look at the funding and workforce challenges facing the adult social care system.
Improving the Ambulant Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy pathway
Run by the Neuromuscular team at Great Ormond Street Hospital, this project aimed at improving the experience of boys with Muscular Dystrophy who are still ambulant (able to walk). The work focused on...
£4.4bn funding gap projected for social care in England as spending per person falls further behind other UK countries
New analysis from the Health Foundation shows that there will be a social care funding gap of £4.4bn in England in 2023/24 to meet rising demand and address critical staffing shortages in the sector.
