What should the new government prioritise for health and social care?
The new government’s in tray is unusually full of pressing challenges, but what should it do on health and social care in England in this parliament?
The new government’s in tray is unusually full of pressing challenges, but what should it do on health and social care in England in this parliament?
Having spent the last 15 years with a focus on improving health care, the Health Foundation is embarking on a new strategy to influence the wider determinants of health. This week, as a first step, we...
Aneurin Bevan’s famous dropped bedpan continues to echo through the corridors of Whitehall, defying various attempts to improve the soundproofing. But the reverse is also true. The reverberations o...
Potentially preventable physical and mental health conditions, including some cardiovascular disease, cancers, and type 2 diabetes, are the leading causes of ill health and death in the UK. The ind...
If you follow Health Foundation news you may have noticed a different flavour to some of our more recent publications. A focus on what is variably called public health, population health or health and...
Demand pressures on the NHS rise every year. To cope with these pressures and provide the same quality of service, we need to train more clinical professionals and nurses in Britain year after year. B...
In his recent speech to the NHS Confederation Simon Stevens, the chief executive of NHS England, said that times were going to be very tough for the NHS: finances would need to be stabilised; services...
Over the last nine months, I’ve been investigating the future of health and health care and the interplay with technology. Health care is not alone in looking to technology to improve the future – man...
The publication of the Department of Health (DH) annual accounts has been well reported: they showed an overspend on the allocated health budget for the year 2015/16, and a sharp deterioration of fina...
I’ll never forget how I felt the day I found out I had let down hundreds of patients. Paper records of referrals to one of the services I was accountable for had been found in a drawer. They had no...