The importance of empathy
‘We talk about the federal deficit, but we don’t talk enough about the empathy deficit’ said Barack Obama when he was running for President eight years ago. He was lamenting the decline in compassion ...
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How do we solve a problem like the weekend effect?
Much has already been said and written about the weekend effect, particularly in the context of a rather polarised debate about the merits of seven day working in the NHS. At times it has felt that th...
Still doing the system’s business
Twelve years ago I received a phone call. I was working for a national body responsible for investigating concerns about serious care failures. The caller suspected that people with learning disabilit...
Do we have more data than insight?
Calls for new ways to use information to support better health services are fairly common. However, much less attention is paid to the skilled analysts who can make sense of the data being produced. I...
Bringing the collaborative economy to health care
We are in an era of sharing. Yet it appears that the sharing economy movement has largely failed to permeate the NHS.
Health care only accounts for 10% of a population’s health
Bernard Baruch, a US philanthropist, said that ‘the ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself’.
Where’s policy action needed for a healthier population?
If you were to choose a government department you would run for a day to improve the health of the population, which would it be?
Dealing with an epidemic of disempowerment
What does a resident of Calton in Glasgow have in common with the average American? Neither is very healthy.
NHS competition policy and the EU
Nearly two years ago, the Health Foundation commissioned a team of researchers at the University of York to investigate how and whether competition works in five European health systems – France, Port...
Climbing the social mobility ladder
A lack of upward social mobility will perpetuate health inequalities that are not only unjust for individuals, but also affects life chances between different groups in society the rest of society...
