Imagine you are responsible for healthcare in a country where 30 million people are in poverty because of healthcare costs, where you are contending with communicable diseases eradicated in many parts...
My mother-in-law, Margaret, suffers from schizoaffective disorder and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, (COPD). Our shared family goal is that she never requires a mental health in-patient admiss...
Here at the Health Foundation we’ve got two major ambitions for change – making care safer and making care person-centred. These two ambitions coalesce when thinking about how to enhance the role that...
Last April, at the BMJ International Quality Forum, we launched one of our most popular reports to date. It flew off our stands, all copies were gone by lunchtime on the first day and repeat orders...
The first challenge in talking about frailty is deciding exactly what it means. This was how one person responded to finding the word on their wife’s notes: ‘A few years ago my wife got discharged ...
It has become increasingly obvious that our way of caring for our senior citizens has got to change. There are new stories in the media every day, and the sector is flooded with reports and recommenda...
Today 14 sites across England are to be named as ‘pioneers’ for integrated care. When I was on the panel interviewing the prospective pioneers in September, two things stood out: first, for a service ...
Two weeks ago we brought together over 100 people to mark the end of our MAGIC programme, which supported teams to embed shared decision making in everyday clinical practice. There were some great ins...
Sir Bruce Keogh, Medical Director at NHS England, has today recommended a wide ranging reconfiguration of urgent and emergency services in his phase 1 review of urgent and emergency care. We provided ...
A few years ago, improbably, I ended up presenting a BBC2 series, The Victorian Pharmacy. The unlikely storyline was that myself and two historians, gussied up in period clothes, were developing a hig...
