(Re-)read the Berwick report recently? While it perhaps didn't get much profile beyond improvement enthusiasts when it came out, I find people are increasingly referring to it. Perhaps this is because...
We’ve faltered in England. There hasn’t been a medium term strategy for improvement in the NHS based on recognised tried and tested quality improvement techniques, some from other industries with comp...
'What gets measured gets done' – a well-established mantra, and with good reason. But I’m not entirely comfortable with the implication that results always neatly follow from applying focus and pressu...
With the challenges currently facing the NHS, leaders at all levels across organisations need to learn to work together with a shared vision of providing continually improving, high-quality and compas...
The National Health Service is 66 years old this year and there is much discussion around its future. We realise we need to design a better health service for people, and we need to find new ways to m...
In March this year Helen Hughes, Chief Operating Officer of the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman, was seconded to NHS England to review the progress being made in embedding human factors, es...
At the recent NHS Confederation Annual conference, Simon Stevens’ speech emphasised the importance of independent evaluation of the new, local models of care he is championing. Struck by the certai...
As an organisation that has led patient safety efforts in the UK over the past 10 years, at the Health Foundation we know that it’s a marathon, not a sprint. Health care delivery encompasses many o...
Today, new safety data will be published on the NHS Choices website. The data will cover various aspects of safety at individual organisations – data that has not been previously easily accessible to ...
One of my favourite days in the Health Foundation calendar must be the annual Shine event. Each year, for the past three years, the clinical teams we have supported through Shine have reported back th...
