Improving patient flow across organisations and pathways
This evidence scan compiles examples, from published empirical research, of strategies used to help improve patient flow across organisations or pathways of care.
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Using clinical communities to improve quality
This report introduces an approach – the clinical community – to support and secure improvements in health systems across multiple sites.
Hard truths: essential actions
The focus of this briefing is on bridging the gap between the actions set out by the government in Hard Truths and their practical application by people working in the service.
QualityWatch: Focus on distance from home to emergency care
This report from our QualityWatch programme, in partnership with the Nuffield Trust, examines changes over the last decade in the distance travelled from home to receive emergency care.
Shine: Improving the value of local healthcare services
Successes and lessons from the first two rounds of the Health Foundation’s Shine programme: annual awards to test small-scale innovative interventions that aim to improve health care services.
What can the UK learn from healthcare innovation in India?
This thought paper is the result of a week-long study tour to India, facilitated by the International Partnership for Innovative Healthcare Delivery.
Closing the NHS funding gap: Can it be done through greater efficiency?
In 2014, we brought together senior health sector leaders to consider whether the NHS can close the £30bn funding gap through greater efficiency.
A quarter of GP and general practice nursing posts could be vacant in 10 years
Analysis from the Health Foundation’s REAL Centre warns that without urgent, significant policy action, the NHS in England is facing a crippling shortage of GPs and general practice nurses over the co...
A call for increased paediatric palliative care research: Identifying barriers
The evidence base underpinning paediatric palliative care (PPC) needs to be expanded and be made robust if advances in practice and reduction in suffering are to be achieved. While current guidance1 e...
Nick Bateson appointed as Chief Operating Officer at the Health Foundation
Nick Bateson has been appointed as the new Chief Operating Officer at the Health Foundation.
