The value of health
By better understanding the value of health, and finding effective ways to invest in health across a person’s life, it may be possible to improve people’s economic and social outcomes.
By better understanding the value of health, and finding effective ways to invest in health across a person’s life, it may be possible to improve people’s economic and social outcomes.
To move away from paternalistic relationships between communities and providers to ones where shared decision making and co-production is possible, we need to build spaces that enable and embody these...
What action could we take, in partnership with others, to improve the factors that shape our health known as the social and economic determinants?
As a new system of public health in Scotland brings the public’s health to the fore, how can we highlight the impact on our health of our spaces and places, while giving communities the power to shape...
The end of last year saw the publication of a significant new policy document: the National Quality Board’s (NQB’s) Shared commitment to quality. You may not be hugely familiar with the NQB: the Bo...
It's no secret that health and care systems all over the world are under pressure and organisations are facing increasingly complex challenges. Some of the current approaches to tackling these challen...
Twelve months ago, the Health Foundation set out to explore our contribution to enabling everyone in the UK to live a healthy life. Starting with an international seminar in Salzburg, the year unfolde...
A few weeks after I started at the Health Foundation, I was sat in a room surrounded by experts discussing the financial and societal challenges facing welfare systems in different European countries....
This month, a National Audit Office report suggested that the implementation of the Better Care Fund – a policy pooling health and social care budgets at a local level – has so far failed to ease pres...
Jack Welch, a former boss of General Electric, famously warned that if the rate of change on the outside was more than the rate of change on the inside, then companies would soon fail. Steven Spear, a...