Following so much introspection about the state of our health service in recent weeks, attention is now focused on finding practical ways to implement the recommendations set out by Robert Francis QC....
The government’s initial response to the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Public Inquiry, published earlier today, is entitled, Patients First and Foremost. But while it contains many sensible p...
There is now general recognition that the NHS needs to get to grips with seven day working. This has been reflected in the NHS Commissioning Board Planning Guidance, Everyone Counts: Planning for Pati...
Yesterday the government made a commitment to introduce a statutory duty of candour. This is something the Health Foundation has been calling for and we are pleased that the government has now taken a...
I don't really like the term ‘health literacy’. Not many people really understand what it means, which is a bit ironic when you think about it. My unofficial definition of health literacy is ‘the capa...
One of the advantages of Wales being a small nation is that rapid improvement on a national scale is manageable within a short time. And yet, like almost every other nation on an improvement journey, ...
I had a conversation recently with two midwives. Both had been trained in shared decision making and had the ‘light bulb’ moment when they realised that, although they thought they’d been providing pe...
The Francis report reminded us that we have a long history of trying to improve the way complaints about health services are handled. Yet we still have a long way to go to make sure patients and famil...
Imagine you will no longer be allowed to live your life the way you have been used to. Instead you are to live in the jungle where you will remain for the rest of your days. You face an unfamiliar ...
Over the last few weeks – just as people are still trying to understand what Francis means and when the NHS is dealing with it’s own structural changes – we’ve seen safety very publicly rear its head ...
