Evaluating healthcare quality improvement
Conducting detailed evaluation of improvement activity is key to our understanding of which methods and innovations work to improve quality. We want to know which small scale changes can be replic...
Conducting detailed evaluation of improvement activity is key to our understanding of which methods and innovations work to improve quality. We want to know which small scale changes can be replic...
One of our strategic priorities is to inspire improvement through changing relationships between people and health services. The hypothesis that underpins our work in this area is: ‘The quality of car...
In December 2011, the Health Foundation hosted a summit to consider what must be done to make a reality of ‘no decision about me, without me’. The summit identified that, as champion of patient and ca...
This evidence scan provides a rapid collation of empirical research about initiatives to reduce prescribing errors.
We provide a short overview of our work in 2011, followed by more detail about what we have been doing within each strategic priority.
Bringing together learning from 14 of the Health Foundation’s improvement programme evaluations, this report explores the key challenges to improvement and suggests ways to overcome them.
This report gives the findings from an independent evaluation of phase 1 of our Co-creating Health self-management support improvement programme.
This is the report of an independent evaluation of our Engaging with Quality in Primary Care (EwQPC) improvement programme.
Dr Rebecca Lawton and Dr Gerry Armitage look at ways to involve patients in clinical safety and the readiness of patients and health professionals to adopt new roles.
Professor Steven Spear argues that the way to achieve great operational performance and value has often been misunderstood.