Introduction: The emergence of patient and public involvement (PPI) in healthcare in the UK can be traced as far back as the 1970s. More recently, campaigns by harmed patients and their relatives have...
Emily Hough is a 2021–22 UK Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy and Practice.
Background: The receptionist is the focal point of the practice, undertaking an array of clinically orientated roles such as triaging patients for GP consultations or managing repeat prescribing. Howe...
Emma Watson is a 2021–22 UK Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy and Practice.
Unemployed people are more than five times as likely to have poor health than employees.
Background: Although many hospital readmission reduction initiatives have been introduced globally, health care systems ultimately aim to improve patients’ health and well-being. We examined whether t...
Anita Charlesworth rounds up the REAL Centre’s recent work looking at the capacity challenges in the NHS and social care.
The government’s new Plan for Digital Health and Social Care contains some important ambitions. But what’s needed to make it work? Tim Horton, Josh Keith and Anita Mehay explore the issues.
Objectives: To measure the impact of the improvement in hospital survival rates on patients’ subsequent utilization of unplanned (emergency) admissions. Data Sources/Study Setting: Unplanned admiss...
Analysis from the Health Foundation’s REAL Centre warns that without urgent, significant policy action, the NHS in England is facing a crippling shortage of GPs over the coming decade. We take a close...
