High reliability organisations
This evidence scan collates empirical evidence about the characteristics of high reliability organisations and how these organisations develop within and outside healthcare
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Improving safety in primary care
This evidence scan collates empirical evidence that looks at what initiatives have implemented to improve safety in primary care, the effects of these, and whether there are ongoing studies or media s...
Does improving safety culture affect patient outcomes?
This evidence scan examines whether there is any empirical evidence to support the assumption that improving safety culture will directly or indirectly affect patient outcomes.
Training professionals in motivational interviewing
Motivational interviewing draws on people’s intrinsic motivation to change their behaviour and improve their health. This evidence scan summarises what is known about how best to train professionals t...
Evaluating healthcare quality improvement
Conducting detailed evaluation of improvement activity is key to our understanding of which methods and innovations work to improve quality. We want to know which small scale changes can be replic...
Can changing clinician patient interactions improve healthcare quality?
One of our strategic priorities is to inspire improvement through changing relationships between people and health services. The hypothesis that underpins our work in this area is: ‘The quality of car...
Leading the way to shared decision making
In December 2011, the Health Foundation hosted a summit to consider what must be done to make a reality of ‘no decision about me, without me’. The summit identified that, as champion of patient and ca...
Reducing prescribing errors
This evidence scan provides a rapid collation of empirical research about initiatives to reduce prescribing errors.
Annual review 2011
We provide a short overview of our work in 2011, followed by more detail about what we have been doing within each strategic priority.
Overcoming challenges to improving quality
Bringing together learning from 14 of the Health Foundation’s improvement programme evaluations, this report explores the key challenges to improvement and suggests ways to overcome them.
