Whether we are a patient, manager or clinician, all the conversations we have in healthcare settings should be open, honest and 'person to person' rather than 'label to label'. I was thinking about...
Visiting The LV Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI) in Hyderabad as part of the IPIHD study tour, I was expecting to see something along the lines of Aravind's high volume, high quality and low cost cataract...
In the last year or so you might think that quality in the NHS has been scrutinised more than at any other time since 1948. With reports from Francis, Don Berwick, the CQC and the Keogh Review, and in...
I am often asked to provide a steer for chief executives and boards on data, dashboards and strategic measurement. Here are the top ten tips that I think differentiate good boards from great boards. ...
Imagine you are responsible for healthcare in a country where 30 million people are in poverty because of healthcare costs, where you are contending with communicable diseases eradicated in many parts...
My mother-in-law, Margaret, suffers from schizoaffective disorder and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, (COPD). Our shared family goal is that she never requires a mental health in-patient admiss...
Here at the Health Foundation we’ve got two major ambitions for change – making care safer and making care person-centred. These two ambitions coalesce when thinking about how to enhance the role that...
Last April, at the BMJ International Quality Forum, we launched one of our most popular reports to date. It flew off our stands, all copies were gone by lunchtime on the first day and repeat orders...
The first challenge in talking about frailty is deciding exactly what it means. This was how one person responded to finding the word on their wife’s notes: ‘A few years ago my wife got discharged ...
It has become increasingly obvious that our way of caring for our senior citizens has got to change. There are new stories in the media every day, and the sector is flooded with reports and recommenda...
