Simulation: improving patient outcomes
Effective training has been shown to improve perinatal care and outcome, decrease litigation claims and reduce midwifery sick leave. To be effective, training should be incentivised, in a realistic co...
Effective training has been shown to improve perinatal care and outcome, decrease litigation claims and reduce midwifery sick leave. To be effective, training should be incentivised, in a realistic co...
Background: Quality and safety improvement initiatives in healthcare often display two disconcerting effects. The first is a failure to outperform the secular trend. The second is the decline effect,...
At an international level, public, political and economic pressures are increasing awareness of the high level of variation in the quality of health care provision. This knowledge has brought with it ...
With the public finances squeezed by higher inflation, we look at what the Spring Statement could mean for health and social care funding pressures.
Background: In line with the rise in the prevalence of obesity, an increasing number of women of childbearing age are undergoing laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding (LAGB), resulting in an incre...
Joe Home talks about how managers are often an unseen and under-appreciated segment of the health care workforce, and yet good management is key if we want to run high quality and efficient services.....
What’s the future of the ‘discharge to assess’ model for hospitals? Tim Horton and Suzanne Wood draw on Health Foundation research to explore how to make it work well.
Objective: To implement routine in-house monitoring of risk-adjusted 30-day mortality following paediatric cardiac surgery. Design: Collaborative monitoring software development and implementatio...
Anita Charlesworth reflects on the changes afoot for the health and care service this spring, from integrated care systems to the Health and Care Levy and rising inflation.