Mergers in the NHS
Lessons from the decision to block the proposed merger of hospitals in Bournemouth and Poole
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QualityWatch: Focus on hospital admissions from care homes
This analysis from QualityWatch, a joint Health Foundation and Nuffield Trust research programme, explores how care home residents use hospital services, and how this information could prompt improvem...
Public attitudes to the NHS
Analysis of the results of questions about the NHS from the 2014 British Social Attitudes Survey.
Building the foundations for improvement
This report looks at how five UK trusts built quality improvement capability at scale in their organisations.
What’s getting in the way? Barriers to improvement in the NHS
A compilation of published research about the key barriers to improvement in the NHS.
Constructive comfort: accelerating change in the NHS
This report asks how best to design national policy on the NHS to accelerate improvements to health care
Levels of harm
The scan summarises readily available research about levels of patient harm in acute and primary care and the potential causes of such harm.
Could quality be cheaper?
This case study looks in detail at three improvement projects that received support from our Shine 2010 programme.
Q: momentum is growing
With the 70-year anniversary of the NHS, July has been a month for combining celebration for what the NHS continues to achieve with calls for further debate and action to ensure health and care servic...
Children’s A&E attendances: Linking data to explore why parents’ mental health matters
A new data linkage study examines drivers of children's use of health care services such as who they live with and the health of their parents, particularly their mental health.
