The Catch-22 of performance and penalties
It’s been over a month since the sobering news that the NHS provider deficit had reached £2.45bn at the end of the 2015/16 with 65% of all providers in the red. Having recently joined the Health Fo...
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Health cannot be improved by health care alone
Having spent the last 15 years with a focus on improving health care, the Health Foundation is embarking on a new strategy to influence the wider determinants of health. This week, as a first step, we...
Out of a crisis: How the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch can build trust in the NHS
The Chinese word for ‘crisis’ can be translated as both ‘danger’ and ‘opportunity’. But when it comes to crises in the NHS – like at Southern Health, Morecambe Bay or Mid Staffordshire – the dangers a...
A fresh start for health and social care across Northern Ireland?
Following weeks of campaigning, a 55% electoral turn-out on 5 May and several weeks of post-election negotiating, the shape and make-up of our new Executive was finally announced in Northern Ireland o...
Can the Welsh NHS deliver transformation at the scale and pace needed?
A guest blog from Dan Bristow, Deputy Director at the Public Policy Institute for Wales, essays what's recently been going on in the Welsh Assembly.
Accounting for care
The NHS is a service that all of us use, most of us pay into, and that provides everything from a GP check-up for a sore knee to the most advanced stem cell therapy – all of which has to be paid for. ...
What cycling can teach the devolved NHS about working as a group
Last month I got up unpleasantly early on a Sunday morning, met up with a small group of fellow cyclists and went for a long(ish) ride around some very scenic – and extraordinarily cold – country lane...
Would the NHS be different if you lived somewhere else in the UK?
Think of the NHS. What first springs to mind? Would it be different, do you think, if you lived somewhere else in the UK? If you thought of a comprehensive health service free at the point of ac...
Taxing times for health?
A recent Health Foundation report argued that planned NHS funding increases will be insufficient to keep up with demand pressures and rising costs. So what are the options for addressing this gap? Acr...
After the election, what's the prognosis for the NHS and public health in Scotland?
Mark Hellowell and Katherine Smith from the Global Public Health Unit, University of Edinburgh, analyse the post-election landscape in Scotland.
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