Bringing research to the front line
I’ll never forget how I felt the day I found out I had let down hundreds of patients. Paper records of referrals to one of the services I was accountable for had been found in a drawer. They had no...
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18 new Fellows selected for our GenerationQ leadership programme
Eighteen senior health care professionals have been selected to join GenerationQ, the Health Foundation’s leadership programme designed to develop a new generation of skilled and effective leaders to ...
Unemployment rates for disabled and non-disabled people
Disabled people are nearly twice as likely to be unemployed as non-disabled people. The unemployment ratio between the two groups remained constant since 2014.
The cost of caring: poverty and deprivation among residential care workers in the UK
Drawing on data up to April 2020, our analysis suggests residential care workers in the UK face among the highest rates of poverty and that ensuring people are fairly rewarded in social care must be a...
The cost-of-living crisis is a health emergency too
David Finch highlights the relationship between the increasing costs of living and deteriorating public health in the UK – and the action that the government could take.
1 in 5 residential care workers in the UK living in poverty before cost-of-living crisis
New report calls on government to tackle poverty crisis in the social care workforce.
The Health Foundation to support five research projects that explore how behavioural insights can be used to increase efficiency and reduce waste in health care
Five research projects have been selected as part of the Health Foundation’s £1.5 million open call for novel research ideas that design, test and evaluate behaviourally informed interventions that ha...
Is poor health driving a rise in economic inactivity?
Around 700,000 more people are economically inactive now than before the pandemic. This article looks at what is driving this increase and explores the role of ill health.
Scaling and spreading health care innovations: what does it take?
The Health Foundation is working with the Innovation Unit to understand what it takes to successfully scale and spread innovation in health care. The spread of innovation in health care has been a lon...
More older workers are leaving employment due to ill-health – but COVID-19 isn’t to blame, study finds
The nation’s underlying ill-health – rather than long COVID or extended waiting lists – is the primary reason for the rise in the number of older workers leaving employment for health reasons, a new s...
