Funding, news and events from January 2022
The latest funding, news and events from the Health Foundation.
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Contextual barriers to implementation in primary care: an ethnographic study of a programme to improve chronic kidney disease care
Background: Context is important in implementation—we know that what works in one setting may not work in the same way elsewhere. Primary care has been described as a unique context both in relation t...
Webinar: Learning from international health care system responses to COVID-19
What can we learn from the approaches other countries have taken to the pandemic to help inform health policy for the future?
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Making visible the unseen elements of nursing
The traditional image of nurses as caregivers needs revision but this is challenging as much nursing work cannot easily be explained. This article summarises the main findings from a large-scale study...
Measures to boost employment could force people into low quality work and lead to poorer health
Health Foundation response to the Department of Work and Pensions' announcement of new measures to boost employment.
If government is serious about ‘levelling up’, it must overhaul funding for general practice
New report calls for government action on GP funding and workforce shortages to tackle unfair differences between richer and poorer areas
Healthcare quality and safety: a review of policy, practice and research
Over the last two decades healthcare quality and safety have risen to the fore of health policy and research. This has largely been informed by theoretical and empirical ideas found in the fields of e...
Towards a sociology of healthcare quality and safety
The contributions to this collection address technologies, practices, experiences and the organisation of quality and safety across a wide range of healthcare contexts. Spanning three continents, from...
DEcisions in health Care to Introduce or Diffuse innovations using Evidence
Background: A range of evidence informs healthcare decision-making, from formal research findings to ‘soft intelligence’ or local data, as well as practical experience or tacit knowledge. However, cul...
Public has bleak view of government’s NHS policies with high concern about workforce challenges
New polling data from the Health Foundation and Ipsos shows that only 12% of the UK public agree their government has the right policies for the NHS, with more than half (62%) disagreeing.
