Introduction: Risk management is a core part of healthcare practice, especially within maternity services, where litigation and societal costs are high. There has been little investigation into the ex...
Carrie Hume, new Head of the Collaboration for Wellbeing and Health, explains her interest in health inequalities, and why public campaigning is so important.
Background: hospitals are under pressure to reduce waiting times and costs. One strategy that may be effective focuses on optimising the flow of emergency patients. Objective: we undertook a patien...
The Health Foundation response to the March 2022 release of the NHS's monthly performance statistics.
NHS performance data tell a clear story of rising pressures, with longer waits and other red flags of declining performance. But do we really understand the reasons why?
Background: Plan–do–study–act (PDSA) cycles provide a structure for iterative testing of changes to improve quality of systems. The method is widely accepted in healthcare improvement; however there i...
Our response to the Health and Social Care Committee's inquiry on the future of General Practice
Hospital readmission rates are increasingly used as signals of hospital performance and a basis for hospital reimbursement. However, their interpretation may be complicated by differential patient sur...
Exploring public attitudes towards health and health inequalities, and how public health professionals can communicate to improve understanding of evidence.
Introduction: Patient and public involvement in healthcare planning, service development and health-related research has received significant attention. However, evidence about the role of patient inv...
