Teachers: The hidden public health workforce
Many studies have noted the strong association between better educational achievement and better health outcomes. The association is clear, the reasons less so.
Many studies have noted the strong association between better educational achievement and better health outcomes. The association is clear, the reasons less so.
Why I hope our research will help practice managers develop into a profession for themselves, and highlight the importance of practice managers.
While the CQC's The state of care in general practice report contained grounds for optimism, the work isn’t over yet.
Failure in the NHS has received much attention in recent years, particularly in England. The Francis report into the failings in care at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust and the Berwick review i...
Our Senior Fellow, Martin Bardsley, talks about the Health Foundation’s work to build analytical capacity within the wider health service.
If groups of practices collaborate to pool data centrally, analyse and compare it, and then share learning across the network, can we improve care across all participating practices?
Over the last few years, paramedic Sophie Clark has been working to link emergency department and ambulance data in London.
Patient engagement is much talked about. Thankfully. However, casting my mind back 20 years when organising The King’s Fund’s Promoting Patient Choice conference, I recall having no difficulty in find...
Health and health care policy have been a matter for the devolved administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland since devolution in the late 1990s. Among the cocktail of policies pursued acr...
Jeremy Hunt has asked all the English NHS to ‘sign up to safety’. He has been to Seattle to see how it can be done – for it is certainly true that Virginia Mason Medical Centre in Seattle is a remarka...