Spreading innovation in healthcare
This week I attended the Reform conference on health innovation, which got me thinking about the different ways that people interpret ‘innovation’. At the Health Foundation, the innovation we promote ...
This week I attended the Reform conference on health innovation, which got me thinking about the different ways that people interpret ‘innovation’. At the Health Foundation, the innovation we promote ...
I recently attended an event which brought together six Health Foundation project teams that had been involved in kidney care issues. Our project aimed to improve the management of Chronic Kidney Dise...
Last week over 7,000 medical students found themselves in limbo. Having first been told they had secured jobs for their Foundation year, they were then told that there had been an error in the compute...
‘Would you be happy if this happened to you?’ – If the answer is ‘No’, then it’s likely there was harm. This guideline from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) about conducting a ‘mortal...
Financial restraints and the huge changes facing the NHS are having an impact on workforce motivation and confidence, especially when it comes to raising concerns about patient safety. Last week I par...
Our joint report with Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) finds that the proposed government amendment would impact most strongly those older people with modest levels of wealth.
Background: It is recognised that involving lay people with research in a meaningful rather than tokenistic way is both important and challenging. In a recent health services research study addressing...
A joint IFS and Health Foundation briefing that analyses the government’s proposed amendment to the English social care charging system.
The author examines nursing in England and the future of care in the British healthcare systems. She elaborates on the fallout from the failure of care in England at Mid Staffordshire National Health ...
We explore what we know about the state of children and young people’s mental health services using openly available administrative and survey data.