A few weeks after I started at the Health Foundation, I was sat in a room surrounded by experts discussing the financial and societal challenges facing welfare systems in different European countries....
This month, a National Audit Office report suggested that the implementation of the Better Care Fund – a policy pooling health and social care budgets at a local level – has so far failed to ease pres...
Jack Welch, a former boss of General Electric, famously warned that if the rate of change on the outside was more than the rate of change on the inside, then companies would soon fail. Steven Spear, a...
Stephen Dorrell recently told a Westminster health conference that due to the distinct nature of health care services (‘a people business’), the largest ingredient in improving the NHS is its staff. ...
It is now almost a year since the formal devolution of the £6 billion budget for health and social care commissioning to the Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership (GMHSCP) – a coalitio...
While the government has justifiably been keen to trumpet progress in reducing MRSA and C. difficile (CDI) infections in recent years, behind this good news there has also been a steady and worrying r...
There is a growing policy focus on how to empower and engage people and communities in their own health and care. The NHS Five Year Forward View talks about ‘harnessing the renewable energy’ of patien...
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...
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 ...
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...
