NHS 111 was set up as a helpline for urgent medical concerns and receives a growing number of calls – over 15 million every year. As we highlighted in an earlier analysis, a frequent criticism of NHS ...
Our Assistant Director of Policy, Ruth Thorlby, looks back at how the health and care service has been surviving this season’s extra pressures, and where action is needed now in advance of next winter...
Last week’s announcement by Jeremy Hunt contained some important steps forward, but the challenges outside the NHS will need to be addressed too to make progress towards the Medication Without Harm go...
How might Brexit affect our health? John Middleton, President of the Faculty of Public Health, explains how the cross-party ‘do no harm’ amendment to the EU (Withdrawal) Bill could help protect public...
Natalie Lovell, one of the authors of What makes us healthy? An introduction to the social determinants of health, writes about distilling such a big topic into a quick guide.
What matters to those amazing nurses that work in our NHS? Pay? Somewhat, but when it comes to what motivates them, one thing is clear: it’s not all about the money. Prior to the recent announcement o...
This fellowship aim to build a cadre of clinically-qualified leaders with the enthusiasm, experience and skills to champion the spread of improvement in health care.
This group aims to enhance patient safety by combining human factors with an approach to change informed by improvement science.
This programme ran from 2014 to 2017, and offered funding for projects to implement and evaluate tested, evidence-based patient safety interventions at scale in health and social care. It is now close...
This programme ran in 2011/13 and offered £400,000 to seven teams working on projects that aimed to change the relationship between people and health services. It is now closed for application.
