Measuring patient complexity in hospital admissions
How best to measure the complexity of patients’ health needs? Sarah Deeny, Assistant Director of Data Analytics, explores the issues.
How best to measure the complexity of patients’ health needs? Sarah Deeny, Assistant Director of Data Analytics, explores the issues.
Funding for the adult social care system in England was at its highest point in 2009/10 with total spending of £349 per head of the population in real terms.
There is no doubt that the emergency medicine brand is a hugely successful one – and one which has become a victim of its own success. This leads to challenges in meeting the demands being placed on s...
Health Foundation Chief Executive Jennifer Dixon says that 4% investment in NHS is non-negotiable to avoid deterioration.
What can be done to tackle social isolation and its associated health and wellbeing risks? Rose Minshall of our Healthy Lives team writes about a successful example from south London.
Our latest Innovating for Improvement funding programme focuses on the people at the heart of our health care system – as Sam Thomas, programme manager, explains.
How can we use creativity and connectivity to measure health and inequalities? Marisa de Andrade blogs about the Measuring Humanity project.
What can be done practically to support staff to turn the principles and ideas of integrated care into reality? Will Warburton, Director of Improvement, explores some methods.
What are the consequences of cutting social care funding? George Stoye, Senior Research Economist at the IFS, outlines the findings of his recent working paper.
What is the significance of whole life course approaches? Matthew Jordan from our Healthy Lives team blogs about the potential and interdisciplinary relevance of the National Child Development Study.