Make change local: a transformation fund for the NHS
David Fillingham, Chief Executive of AQuA, suggests five steps to increase the chaces of a transformation fund having the impact we all want to see.
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Reviewing quality indicators for general practice
Earlier in the summer the Secretary of State for Health announced that the Health Foundation would be reviewing indicators of the quality of general practice in England. Our independent review is now ...
It's not always bad to be a copycat
It’s Sunday evening, and I’m in charge of bed time – if not in control. ‘I’m emptying the boat!’ says my 4-year old, using her milk cup to hurl as much water as she can from the bath to the floor. ‘S...
The best of both worlds? Bringing together Monitor and the NHS Trust Development Authority
Will they or won’t they? The long-running, on again/off again relationship saga is a device familiar from far too many long-running television series to list here. I’m currently more interested in wha...
Measuring success
How do you know how healthy you are? Do you think about how many calories you’ve had today, or do you look at your diet over the longer term, how much you exercise and your general wellbeing? Individu...
English devo bids: healthy or not?
Last Friday was the deadline for ‘devolution bids’ (proposals from groups of councils for greater control over public spending), and no doubt the end of frenzied negotiation and planning up and down t...
Six challenges to becoming an effective system leader
'We are in the century of the system!' declared Dr. Atul Gawande in his 2014 BBC Reith Lectures. And there is indeed much talk today of health and care systems, thinking systemically, complex adaptive...
Outcomes-based commissioning - much promise, but is it something that CCGs can actually deliver on?
Outcomes-based commissioning is all the rage in the NHS. Many clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) are seeing it as currently the only viable commissioning route to deliver on the vision set out in th...
300 inspirational stories of improvement
‘So what kind of improvements do you fund?’ Two years into my time at the Health Foundation, you’d have thought that I’d be quite good at answering this question. But how do you capture a 12 year hist...
Painting a credible picture of general practice care quality?
Today the Health Foundation has published its independent review into indicators of the quality of care provided by general practices in England following the announcement by the Secretary of State fo...
