Shaping our strategy to improve health
If you follow Health Foundation news you may have noticed a different flavour to some of our more recent publications. A focus on what is variably called public health, population health or health and...
If you follow Health Foundation news you may have noticed a different flavour to some of our more recent publications. A focus on what is variably called public health, population health or health and...
Demand pressures on the NHS rise every year. To cope with these pressures and provide the same quality of service, we need to train more clinical professionals and nurses in Britain year after year. B...
In his recent speech to the NHS Confederation Simon Stevens, the chief executive of NHS England, said that times were going to be very tough for the NHS: finances would need to be stabilised; services...
Over the last nine months, I’ve been investigating the future of health and health care and the interplay with technology. Health care is not alone in looking to technology to improve the future – man...
The publication of the Department of Health (DH) annual accounts has been well reported: they showed an overspend on the allocated health budget for the year 2015/16, and a sharp deterioration of fina...
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...
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 ...
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.
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...
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.