With the challenges currently facing the NHS, leaders at all levels across organisations need to learn to work together with a shared vision of providing continually improving, high-quality and compas...
The National Health Service is 66 years old this year and there is much discussion around its future. We realise we need to design a better health service for people, and we need to find new ways to m...
In March this year Helen Hughes, Chief Operating Officer of the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman, was seconded to NHS England to review the progress being made in embedding human factors, es...
At the recent NHS Confederation Annual conference, Simon Stevens’ speech emphasised the importance of independent evaluation of the new, local models of care he is championing. Struck by the certai...
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...
Picture it: Andy Burnham, George Osborne and Norman Lamb get stuck in a lift. What do they talk about? Going by their recent speeches, integration of health and care might be a good place to start. It...
It’s been an important couple of weeks for the finance departments of all providers of NHS services. Following objections from 13% of commissioners, and 75% of relevant NHS providers by share of suppl...
