A government that truly valued the nation's health would have gone further today to protect families
The Health Foundation's response to the Chancellor's Spring Statement 2022.
The Health Foundation's response to the Chancellor's Spring Statement 2022.
Emma Berry joined the Health Foundation in January 2022 as Analyst Intern in the Healthy Lives Team.
Objective: To assess the usability of virtual-reality (VR) simulation for obstetric ultrasound trainees. Methods: Twenty-six participants were recruited: 18 obstetric ultrasound trainees (with li...
The Department of Health’s Mandate is clear, the objective spelled out in plain language: the NHS must become dramatically better at involving people with long-term conditions in their own healthcare ...
I recently heard nurse lecturer Austin Thomas speak about his experience of 30 operations after barely surviving a near-fatal road accident. His verdict was that many people working in the NHS say tha...
For years the word ‘schizophrenia’ has been whispered, with people either ignorant or fearful of what it means. Many families have often kept it a secret due to the stigma that surrounds it. Yet this ...
A recent comment posted on the Health Foundation website in response to Peter Griffith’s piece on measuring the quality of nursing asked: ‘Do we really want to measuring quality in nursing or the over...
A few weeks ago every Boeing 787 ‘Dreamliner’ around the world was grounded on safety concerns. As the NHS gears up for the imminent release of the Francis Inquiry report, the Dreamliner holds importa...
‘We have still not moved away from a culture of blame’. So says Robert Francis in his erudite, if voluminous, report into the failings at the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust published earlier t...
There’s a tendency in the NHS to be ruthlessly target-driven. Often, it goes like this: a scandal or a public outcry leads ministers to demand improvement, a 'magic bullet' metric is identified, and p...