Learning from mortality and harm reviews
‘Would you be happy if this happened to you?’ – If the answer is ‘No’, then it’s likely there was harm. This guideline from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) about conducting a ‘mortal...
‘Would you be happy if this happened to you?’ – If the answer is ‘No’, then it’s likely there was harm. This guideline from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) about conducting a ‘mortal...
Financial restraints and the huge changes facing the NHS are having an impact on workforce motivation and confidence, especially when it comes to raising concerns about patient safety. Last week I par...
Our joint report with Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) finds that the proposed government amendment would impact most strongly those older people with modest levels of wealth.
Background: It is recognised that involving lay people with research in a meaningful rather than tokenistic way is both important and challenging. In a recent health services research study addressing...
A joint IFS and Health Foundation briefing that analyses the government’s proposed amendment to the English social care charging system.
The author examines nursing in England and the future of care in the British healthcare systems. She elaborates on the fallout from the failure of care in England at Mid Staffordshire National Health ...
We explore what we know about the state of children and young people’s mental health services using openly available administrative and survey data.
Background: The Standards for Quality Improvement Reporting Excellence (SQUIRE) Guidelines were published in 2008 to increase the completeness, precision and accuracy of published reports of systemati...
Following seven years with the Health Foundation as our Director of Data Analytics, Adam Steventon will be moving on to a new role with Our Future Health as Head of Data Platforms.
Evaluation of improvement initiatives in healthcare is essential to establishing whether interventions are effective and to understanding how and why they work in order to enable replication. Although...