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Our most recent blogs
Using research to prepare for a post-pandemic world
How the long-term research agenda needs to incorporate important questions about COVID-19 and the pandemic’s continuing impact on our lives.
Recognising excellence in health care data analytics
As the winners of the Florence Nightingale Award for Excellence in Healthcare Data Analytics are announced, Ellen Coughlan reflects on the importance of health care analytics in supporting innovation ...
Breaking with Lansley’s Act
Nicholas Timmins assesses Jeremy Hunt’s tenure as the longest serving health secretary.
To govern is to choose
Choices about health and social care must be made with a strong emphasis on their long-term consequences if history is not to repeat itself, writes Anita Charlesworth.
Adopting Innovation: investing in skills at the NHS front line
Adopting innovation is a hot topic for health care providers this year. How can we seize the opportunity to increase capability for NHS organisations to be effective adopters of innovation for the lon...
Political priorities for health: autumn party conferences provide few insights
Dr Jennifer Dixon reflects on an unusual party conference season and asks what we can glean from the rhetoric of the main party leaders.
It’s time to see the bigger picture
Sir Andrew Dilnot writes that to get the best out of the NHS and social care, we need more and better understanding of what has happened in the past, and what might happen next.
Building back better by focusing on health
Emma Spencelayh explores the critical role councils play in ensuring the economic recovery also works to improve health.
We can shape the future
Dr Jennifer Dixon explores how the REAL Centre will help to identify what future health and care needs are, taking into account evidence of how policies have impacted in the past.
‘Levelling up’ just got much harder
A look at the Health Foundation's COVID-19 impact inquiry: a UK-wide inquiry exploring the pandemic's implications for health and health inequalities, due to report in the summer of 2021.
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