One of the aspects I most enjoy about my role at the Health Foundation is the opportunity to meet people from across the health service working on ideas to improve health care. Most recently, the Foun...
Miriam Deakin, Head of Policy at NHS Providers, asks how might we shape targets which are most helpful to patients and those delivering services?
Dr Katie Coleman, a GP and Vice-Chair of Islington CCG and RCGP Clinical Champion for Collaborative Care and Support Planning, explains how we need to capitalise on the enthusiasm of patients, service...
David Fillingham, Chief Executive of AQuA, suggests five steps to increase the chaces of a transformation fund having the impact we all want to see.
Earlier in the summer the Secretary of State for Health announced that the Health Foundation would be reviewing indicators of the quality of general practice in England. Our independent review is now ...
It’s Sunday evening, and I’m in charge of bed time – if not in control. ‘I’m emptying the boat!’ says my 4-year old, using her milk cup to hurl as much water as she can from the bath to the floor. ‘S...
Will they or won’t they? The long-running, on again/off again relationship saga is a device familiar from far too many long-running television series to list here. I’m currently more interested in wha...
How do you know how healthy you are? Do you think about how many calories you’ve had today, or do you look at your diet over the longer term, how much you exercise and your general wellbeing? Individu...
Last Friday was the deadline for ‘devolution bids’ (proposals from groups of councils for greater control over public spending), and no doubt the end of frenzied negotiation and planning up and down t...
'We are in the century of the system!' declared Dr. Atul Gawande in his 2014 BBC Reith Lectures. And there is indeed much talk today of health and care systems, thinking systemically, complex adaptive...
