It is increasingly common for people to live with several chronic conditions and a number of these may give rise to the same symptom. To help improve people’s quality of life, we need to identify the ...
The theory and evidence base behind person-centred care is not new. It started in the 1990s with Ed Wagner’s chronic care model. And in the last three months there have been excellent papers detailing...
As an organisation that has led patient safety efforts in the UK over the past 10 years, at the Health Foundation we know that it’s a marathon, not a sprint. Health care delivery encompasses many o...
Today, new safety data will be published on the NHS Choices website. The data will cover various aspects of safety at individual organisations – data that has not been previously easily accessible to ...
One of my favourite days in the Health Foundation calendar must be the annual Shine event. Each year, for the past three years, the clinical teams we have supported through Shine have reported back th...
David Cameron’s challenge to the pharmaceutical industry a few weeks ago to accelerate the drive to find a cure for dementia can only be welcomed. The present medications available to patients with Al...
The annual report on the sustainability of public finances was published today by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) – the government's independent economic forecaster. These are numbers that ...
With Glastonbury, Wimbledon and the World Cup over, half of 2014 is already behind us. And looking back over the last six months, there are three things which I think will play out to have significant...
Like many others working in health policy, I’m a big fan of a well chosen metaphor. My favourite at the moment is the so-called ‘iron triangle’ – that all health care systems are always looking to ach...
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...
