No let up for staff or patients with NHS facing historic levels of pressure
The Health Foundation response to the February 2022 release of the NHS's monthly performance statistics.
The Health Foundation response to the February 2022 release of the NHS's monthly performance statistics.
Improvement (defined broadly as purposive efforts to secure positive change) has become an increasingly important activity and field of inquiry within healthcare. This article offers an overview of po...
Episode 17. Like many countries, the UK has a growing drug problem. The UK government's approach is to tackle drugs as a criminal justice matter focused on punishment, rather than a public health matt...
This study aimed to investigate whether molecular analysis can be used to refine risk assessment, direct adjuvant therapy, and identify actionable alterations in high-risk endometrial cancer. TransPOR...
Gwen Nightingale and Katherine Merrifield are are joint Assistant Directors in the Healthy Lives team, working as job-share partners.
Objective: Safe hospital discharge relies upon communication and coordination across multiple occupational and organizational boundaries. Our aim was to understand how these boundaries can exacerbate ...
The role and value of theory in improvement work in healthcare has been seriously underrecognised. We join others in proposing that more informed use of theory can strengthen improvement programmes an...
Health Foundation comment on the NHS Race & Health Observatory report on ethnic inequalities in health care.
In the face of unprecedented financial and demographic challenges, optimising acute bed utilisation by the proactive management of patient flows is a pressing policy concern in high-income countries. ...
Background: Emergency laparotomies in the UK, USA and Denmark are known to have a high risk of death, with accompanying evidence of suboptimal care. The emergency laparotomy pathway quality improvemen...