Better integration between services makes sense but is no replacement for properly funding them
The Health Foundation response to the government's Integration and Social Care White Paper.
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Ten key actions to put people and communities at the heart of health and wellbeing
This month, together with Nesta and our partners in the Realising the Value consortium, the Health Foundation has launched a set of practical resources to show how person- and community- centred appro...
Chunking up chapter two of the Five Year Forward View
Chapter two of the NHS England Five Year Forward View starts by saying that the NHS has not yet ‘fully harnessed the renewable energy represented by patients and communities’ and then goes on to consi...
A step in the right direction?
Today has seen the publication of Developing People – Improving Care – a welcome statement of ambition from national bodies to bring leadership and improvement together, and to bring coherence and qua...
Working towards continuous improvement (and finding inspiration in unexpected places)
Today is a good improvement day. A helpful contact in St George’s clinical coding team has been able to extract some data that would have taken me weeks to find by myself. As part of emergency surgery...
Improving whole system flow?
It was when I read Gerard’s story that the importance of getting flow right really hit home to me. Gerard, a patient at South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust a few years ago, had no complaints at al...
Shaping the food environment
How well are we tackling obesity and diet-related ill health in England, compared with best practice elsewhere? What would an end-of-term report on government food and health policies in England be sa...
Evaluation: Has it all gone Pete Tong?
Relish isn't quite the word when watching 'Pete Tong presents Ibiza Classics' on a night out the other week – I was totally absorbed. What struck me was how he was also absorbed, even after 30 years. ...
The importance of empathy
‘We talk about the federal deficit, but we don’t talk enough about the empathy deficit’ said Barack Obama when he was running for President eight years ago. He was lamenting the decline in compassion ...
How do we solve a problem like the weekend effect?
Much has already been said and written about the weekend effect, particularly in the context of a rather polarised debate about the merits of seven day working in the NHS. At times it has felt that th...
