Five tests for tackling health disparities
What should the government’s forthcoming white paper on health disparities include? We set out five priorities.
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Developing person-centred analysis of harm in a paediatric hospital: a quality improvement report
The provision of safe care is complex and difficult to achieve. Awareness of what happens in real time is one of the ways to develop a safe system within a culture of safety. At Great Ormond Street Ho...
Better integration between services makes sense but is no replacement for properly funding them
The Health Foundation response to the government's Integration and Social Care White Paper.
Ten key actions to put people and communities at the heart of health and wellbeing
This month, together with Nesta and our partners in the Realising the Value consortium, the Health Foundation has launched a set of practical resources to show how person- and community- centred appro...
Chunking up chapter two of the Five Year Forward View
Chapter two of the NHS England Five Year Forward View starts by saying that the NHS has not yet ‘fully harnessed the renewable energy represented by patients and communities’ and then goes on to consi...
A step in the right direction?
Today has seen the publication of Developing People – Improving Care – a welcome statement of ambition from national bodies to bring leadership and improvement together, and to bring coherence and qua...
Working towards continuous improvement (and finding inspiration in unexpected places)
Today is a good improvement day. A helpful contact in St George’s clinical coding team has been able to extract some data that would have taken me weeks to find by myself. As part of emergency surgery...
Improving whole system flow?
It was when I read Gerard’s story that the importance of getting flow right really hit home to me. Gerard, a patient at South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust a few years ago, had no complaints at al...
Shaping the food environment
How well are we tackling obesity and diet-related ill health in England, compared with best practice elsewhere? What would an end-of-term report on government food and health policies in England be sa...
Evaluation: Has it all gone Pete Tong?
Relish isn't quite the word when watching 'Pete Tong presents Ibiza Classics' on a night out the other week – I was totally absorbed. What struck me was how he was also absorbed, even after 30 years. ...
