Efficiency and productivity A long-term, continuous focus on efficiency and productivity is essential to ensure health care quality
The sustainability of the NHS and social care system is likely to become an even bigger issue in coming years, given funding constraints, increasing demand, workforce shortages and variation in the quality and productivity of care.
Our work on efficiency and productivity aims to help NHS and social care services to become more sustainable. We look at whether health care resources are being used to get the best value for money, and identify ways that productivity of services and workforce can be improved.
Our recent work and content on this topic is listed below.
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Agility: the missing ingredient for NHS productivity
Which improvement approaches have the potential to increase productivity in the NHS? Tim Horton, Anita Mehay and Will Warburton look at what is needed to put these approaches into practice.
Why is the NHS really under 'record pressure'?
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?
Enabling service transformation in practice: reflections on the Wade-Gery review
Will the Wade-Gery review enable the NHS to make a leap forwards on tech and data? Tim Horton reflects on what matters for enabling service transformation in practice.
Five things we learned from our work on NHS productivity
Maximising productivity is critical if the NHS is to survive the pressures it faces. But what does that mean in practice?
Webinar: NHS recovery – how do we ‘build back better’?
A panel discussion exploring the extent of the backlog facing the NHS in the recovery period and how we should approach it to avoid mistakes of the past, maximise opportunities and ‘build back better’...
Health Foundation response to the Health and Social Care Secretary’s speech at the Conservative conference
The Health Foundation's response to the Health and Social Care Secretary’s speech at the Conservative party conference.
A complex patchwork of programmes
The Health Foundation’s Improvement team share some findings from their mapping of the health care technology and innovation landscape.
Determining the skills needed by frontline NHS staff to deliver quality improvement
Skills needed by NHS staff to drive improvement of care.
Participatory co-design and normalisation process theory with staff and patients to implement digital ways of working into routine care
Research conducted into the normalisation process theory with staff and patients to implement digital ways of working into routine care.
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