NHS finances: Running the Red Queen's race
As the country’s top priority and biggest employer, the NHS receives a lot of attention. With the diversity of messages reported, it can be confusing. On the one hand there are reports of staff shorta...
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Making the case for staff wellbeing in the NHS
In 2015, NHS England announced a plan to invest £5 million in improving staff health and wellbeing, an initiative that was warmly welcomed as an important step towards understanding employee wellbeing...
Simpler, clearer, more stable: Making accountability work across health and social care
Accountability is not just of theoretical interest: it matters in the real world. The present arrangements for health and social care are complicated enough as it is, and the increasing trend towards ...
Doctors as hospital CEOs
In my career, I have spent 10 years as an NHS hospital chief executive. I have worked to turn around some very challenged organisations, and worked as a system leader. I am also a doctor. When I talk ...
Mental health care reform in Wales
The Health Foundation’s latest analysis of the funding and demand pressures facing the NHS in Wales finds that the service could be sustainable in the long-term if immediate and sustained action is ta...
A lay perspective on collaborative patient engagement
When you see best practice of effective collaboration between health care professional and patient, it stands out a mile. And there is a lot of it around, despite the temptation to always focus on the...
Turning today’s challenges into tomorrow’s opportunities on Orkney
I arrived in Orkney on a cold winter night in 2010. My journey across the sea had been particularly restless and choppy, much like the challenges that lay ahead in my new role as Chief Executive at NH...
Finding innovative solutions to health care challenges in remote areas of the UK
Since the Health Foundation began running improvement programmes a decade ago, we’ve supported dozens of projects and fellowships in every region of England, and over a hundred in Northern Ireland, Sc...
Applying hindsight to Insight
What were you doing in April 2015? Perhaps you were settling down to watch the live leaders’ debate. Or maybe you were cheering Oxford to victory in the first Women’s Boat Race to be staged alongside ...
Evaluating the big bang: The impact of introducing named accountable GPs
England could become a world leader in providing high-quality, affordable health care by drawing on a rich history of policies aimed at improving quality. This was a clear message from our recent publ...
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