Social franchising and licensing
I have just come back from the launch of the fifth round of our Innovating for Improvement programme. As ever, it was inspiring to spend the day with front line teams passionate about improving health...
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Could we care more? The outlook for social care after the Budget
Over the course of the last parliament, half a million more people joined the ranks of the self-employed in England, while half a million fewer people received adult social care. In the Spring Budget ...
Built to last: Developing an infrastructure for continuous learning and improvement
Today NHS England published Next Steps on the NHS Five Year Forward View. Just as Next Steps looks to find ways that the NHS can improve the way it delivers care, we at the Health Foundation also grap...
Enhanced support for care home residents
It is a momentous week for the Improvement Analytics Unit. The first analysis conducted by the unit – our partnership with NHS England to provide rapid feedback on the impact of new care models and ot...
Verve and aplomb
As the good book notes ‘Without a vision the people perish’. While not on a biblical scale, the Five Year Forward View published in 2014 set out what was a broad road for the NHS in England. Last week...
Q Lab: Exploring ways to make peer support available to all
Sometimes we can be so bombarded with information about how the system is broken, there is no space to talk about what is working and the opportunities to do things better. That's why, with the suppor...
The future of social care
Do the words ‘social care’ make you feel bleak? In England, there has been a relentless drip of bad news about the state of social care provision: most recently evidence that hundreds of care workers ...
What lies ahead for health and social care?
The die has been cast and the 2017 General Election is firmly underway – so what now lies ahead for health and social care? The UK’s decision to leave the EU has monopolised public and political de...
Why were nurse bursaries removed?
The surprise election has reignited the debate over the removal of student nurse bursaries, only a few months since the policy was officially confirmed. Student nurses in England currently receive a b...
Three unavoidable challenges ahead for the NHS and social care sector
There are three fundamental issues that any incoming government will need to address if health and social care are to be sustained.
