Ensuring everybody benefits from the use of health data
Our Director of Data Analytics, Adam Steventon, looks at what will enable a data-driven approach to health to flourish.
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Improving hospital discharge for dementia patients
‘My Discharge’ was launched at the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust in April 2013. Part of the Health Foundation’s 2012 Shine programme, the project aims to improve patient and carer experiences...
Weathering the storm? The pandemic’s impact on young people’s wellbeing
Martina Kane looks how the pandemic has affected young people’s mental health, and what society can do to help.
New centre for implementing evidence in adult social care
We spoke to Professor Jon Glasby, Director of the IMPACT centre - a new UK centre for implementing evidence in adult social care.
PatientsLikeMe: How patient experience can change the world
Jamie Heywood co-founded www.patientslikeme.com in 2004 after his brother Stephen was diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease. A health information sharing website for patients, they hoped the site would...
Funding, news and events from May 2021
The latest funding, news and events from the Health Foundation.
Megan keeps improvement patient-focused in South Wales
Aneurin Bevan is one of two health boards in Wales using ‘model patients’ to help with their quality improvement programmes. Taking an idea developed by the Esther Network in Sweden, the team in South...
How are generation COVID-19 experiencing the pandemic?
The COVID-19 impact inquiry team round up emerging evidence of how the pandemic has affected young people’s education, work and social connections.
Use of primary care during the COVID-19 pandemic: May 2021 update
There have been dramatic shifts in primary care activities and outcomes in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This analysis uses patient-level data to explore these changes up to end of January 2021.
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New checklist makes the cardiac catheterisation lab a safer place for patients
In 2013, a Shine-funded project at Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust set out to develop a safety checklist for the cardiac catheterisation laboratory, which has made procedures safer, ...
