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Supporting health care improvement in 2018
Our Director of Improvement Will Warburton looks at our plans for 2018.
What do winter pressures mean for paediatric care?
Susannah Pye, a paediatrician and Clinical Fellow at the Health Foundation, writes about the impact of winter pressures on health care for children.
X Factor: What history, hip hop and human interaction can teach us about evidence in public health policy making
Sridhar Venkatapuram reflects on our unique ‘X Factor’ style event, which aimed to expand and diversify the evidence base for public health interventions and policymaking.
For a healthier nation, we must solve UK poverty
Campbell Robb, Chief Executive of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, writes about the link between poverty and health in our latest Healthy Lives blog series.
Can the voluntary and community sector lead the change we need in health and care?
To improve care for people with long-term conditions, our sectors must come together more often, listen better and learn from one another, write Jo Bibby and Kieron Boyle.
Winter pressures data: Where are the blind spots?
Dr Rebecca Fisher, a GP and Policy Fellow at the Health Foundation, considers what the data can’t tell us about winter pressures on the NHS.
Why invest in the Welsh NHS?
The Welsh government has protected its NHS budget in recent years, despite a reduction in overall funding for devolved services, but people are increasingly struggling to get access.
NHS 111: Understanding the impact on urgent and emergency care
NHS 111 was set up as a helpline for urgent medical concerns and receives a growing number of calls – over 15 million every year. As we highlighted in an earlier analysis, a frequent criticism of NHS ...
Meeting the demands of winter and beyond
Our Assistant Director of Policy, Ruth Thorlby, looks back at how the health and care service has been surviving this season’s extra pressures, and where action is needed now in advance of next winter...
