Against the odds: Driving improvement in primary care
While the CQC's The state of care in general practice report contained grounds for optimism, the work isn’t over yet.
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Resilience and recovery: What the NHS can learn from the criminal justice and education sectors
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...
Accessing the analysts
Our Senior Fellow, Martin Bardsley, talks about the Health Foundation’s work to build analytical capacity within the wider health service.
Collaborating for care: Harnessing the power of data sharing across GP practices
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?
Five ways linking ambulance and A&E data could help to improve care
Over the last few years, paramedic Sophie Clark has been working to link emergency department and ambulance data in London.
A nudge in the right direction: Insights from the Behavioural Sciences Summit
As doctors, we pride ourselves on being highly motivated, trained and able. But does this always mean we’ll make choices that result in optimal patient outcomes?
New options for funding the NHS and social care in the UK
The task facing the government is not just to secure resources and deliver service change for the coming 5 years, but also to place health and social care services on strong financial foundations for ...
Liza McAlonan
Liza McAlonan is the Health Foundation’s Assistant Director of Communications. She joined the organisation in January 2008.
Can you really link delayed discharge to mortality?
Newspapers have recently reported that up to 8,000 people die every year in England because of delays in discharging patients home from hospital. But what is the evidence for this claim?
Co-production: Everybody’s talking about it, but am I really doing it?
On World Mental Health Day, it’s timely to reflect on how mental health services are changing.
