Clinical Human Factors Group
This group aims to enhance patient safety by combining human factors with an approach to change informed by improvement science.
Programmes Our programmes test out new ideas for improving the quality of health care and fund research
Our aim is to take the best ideas and encourage uptake throughout the NHS, and publish research findings that will be useful to both policy and practice.
Advancing Applied Analytics
This programme offers £750,000 of funding to support up to 12 project teams aiming to improve analytical capability in support of health and care services
Supporting the Association of Professional Healthcare Analysts
Helping analytical networks to improve learning and the application of better analysis.
The power of R for the NHS
Why is a statistical programming language having an impact on the NHS?
Young people’s future health inquiry research programme
A programme of work aiming to build an understanding of the future health prospects of young people. We funded two significant research projects looking into the social determinants of health.
Flow Coaching Academy
The Flow Coaching Academy (FCA) programme empowers health and care staff to improve patient flow in the health care system, through spreading a common purpose, language and method for quality improvem...
Exploring Social Franchising
A programme to explore the use of social franchising techniques to help spread and scale health and care interventions.
Scaling Up Improvement
This programme offers £500,000 funding to supports teams to take successful interventions or approaches and deliver them at scale, to improve health care in the UK.
Innovating for Improvement
This programme supports up to 23 projects with up to £75,000 to test and develop innovative ideas and approaches, put them into practice and gather evidence about how innovation improves quality. It i...
Increasing Continuity of Care in General Practice
This programme ran from 2019 to 2021 and offered five GP practices and federations up to £250,000 to fund targeted quality improvement work to increase continuity in their practices.
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We look for talented and passionate individuals as everyone at the Health Foundation has an important role to play.
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Q is an initiative connecting people with improvement expertise across the UK.
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