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...
Tim Horton and Tom Hardie set out 15 recommendations to help policymakers and the NHS get the best out of automation and AI in health care.
Over the last forty years, nursing's claim to professional expertise has been expressed in terms of its care-giving function. Informed by a distinctive ‘holistic’ approach, models of nursing identify ...
Background: The identification and articulation of programme theory can support effective design, execution and evaluation of quality improvement (QI) initiatives. Programme theory includes an agreed ...
Health Foundation response to the government’s ‘living with Covid’ strategy.
Objectives: To review the empirical literature to identify the activities, time spent and engagement of hospital managers in quality of care. Design: A systematic review of the literature. Metho...
New report calls for the government to take stronger action to tackle the leading risk factors for ill health following years of slow, uneven and disjointed policy making.
