Meeting the Sustainable Development Goal targets on health will require efforts well beyond the health care system. Is enough happening to keep us healthy in the UK? Emma Spencelayh explores.
For the sake of our ageing population, resolving the thorny issue of how to pay for this vital public service is essential
John Craig, Chief Executive of Care City, blogs about their experience of innovation and improvement through their work as an NHS England Test Bed.
In Dr Fisher’s consultation room, work and its relationship with physical and mental health is linked to a range of patient complaints. In her latest blog, she explores how making more employment good...
The NHS is often compared to a supertanker – huge and slow moving – but, in at least one regard, this analogy doesn’t work. That area is money. Whilst the sums involved in health care are huge, the fi...
Clearly the NHS is under stress. Up until now the quality of care broadly seems to have held up, as QualityWatch – our joint programme with the Nuffield Trust – showed last October. But the cracks are...
There is a paradox about safety in hospitals. In more than 20 years of research I often found errors in 5-10% (and sometimes far higher) of actions, and yet there are certain areas of hospitals in whi...
In many respects the NHS can be proud of what it’s done around human factors. No other national health care system has yet tried to do what we’re doing, so it’s no surprise that it’s hard. It’s been m...
Human beings are social animals and, while most breakthrough ideas and insights come from individuals, execution of these ideas is largely done through collaboration. Whether feats of engineering, a s...
Be honest. We’ve all been in a situation where we know that something isn’t what it should be, but have reassured ourselves that it’s someone else’s responsibility. This might be something small, like...
