Facilitating complex systems research for public health
In her latest blog, Sophie Hawkesworth from Wellcome discusses the advantages of adopting a complex systems approach to public health research.
In her latest blog, Sophie Hawkesworth from Wellcome discusses the advantages of adopting a complex systems approach to public health research.
The funding increase announced by the Prime Minister, while substantial, is below the estimates of the funding growth of 4% a year that would be required to further improve and modernise the NHS.
As the country’s top priority and biggest employer, the NHS receives a lot of attention. With the diversity of messages reported, it can be confusing. On the one hand there are reports of staff shorta...
Ipsos MORI’s regular index of what the British public see as the important issues of the day recently found a sudden increase in concerns about the NHS. Despite wall-to-wall stories about Brexit in...
A couple of weeks ago I was lucky enough to be in Tokyo. Tokyo is an amazing city; it has wonderful sights, a fascinating history and culture and, interestingly, row after row of karaoke bars! But thi...
Following Northern Ireland’s Assembly elections in May, Dr Lourda Geoghegan – a Health Foundation GenerationQ Fellow – shared with us her optimism for a fresh start for the country’s health and care s...
Last week a job was advertised that could have the greatest impact on population health for the next 50 years. No, you didn’t miss anything; Sally Davies’ job isn’t up for grabs, nor Duncan Selbie’s o...
Formative evaluation during the early stages of programme development can inspire us to look again, ask questions and identify need for corrective action. In his blog, Martin Caunt, Senior Analytical ...
Our recent joint report with the Institute for Fiscal Studies projects the NHS will need 4% annual real growth over the next five years to stay as is, and nearer 5% to modernise given the backlog from...