What is context and why does it matter?
Too often, promising quality improvement initiatives are shown not to work, or if they do they don’t spread. Why not? Could it be that their design was good, the implementation and evaluation sound, b...
Too often, promising quality improvement initiatives are shown not to work, or if they do they don’t spread. Why not? Could it be that their design was good, the implementation and evaluation sound, b...
Despite government promising to 'fix the crisis in social care once and for all', no plan to reform the sector has yet emerged. Here we explore whether recent objections to a cap on care costs truly s...
We talk to Tim Draycott, whose team developed a multi-professional obstetric training programme that has been adopted by 85% of UK obstetric units and is being rolled out across the world, about how a...
Jo Bibby, Director of Health, responds to ONS statistics on young people and employment.
Star is a new approach to priority setting in healthcare, which combines value for money analysis with stakeholder engagement. We talk to Professor Bevan, whose team at LSE developed the approach, abo...
Health Foundation response to the Queen's speech 2021.
We are seeking an evaluation partner to undertake an independent evaluation of the IMProving Adult Care Together (IMPACT) Centre, a new centre for implementing evidence in adult social care, funded by...
Diabetes treatment represents one of the fastest growing costs in health care, predicted to account for around 17% of the total NHS budget by 2035. We take a look at how one pioneering project has tri...
Public health specialty registrar Dr Esther Kwong reflects on her personal experience of using quality improvement approaches during the pandemic.
What is needed to overcome short-termism in workforce planning for the NHS and social care? Anita Charlesworth considers the priorities for a comprehensive strategy.