The end of last year saw the publication of a significant new policy document: the National Quality Board’s (NQB’s) Shared commitment to quality. You may not be hugely familiar with the NQB: the Bo...
It's no secret that health and care systems all over the world are under pressure and organisations are facing increasingly complex challenges. Some of the current approaches to tackling these challen...
Twelve months ago, the Health Foundation set out to explore our contribution to enabling everyone in the UK to live a healthy life. Starting with an international seminar in Salzburg, the year unfolde...
A few weeks after I started at the Health Foundation, I was sat in a room surrounded by experts discussing the financial and societal challenges facing welfare systems in different European countries....
This month, a National Audit Office report suggested that the implementation of the Better Care Fund – a policy pooling health and social care budgets at a local level – has so far failed to ease pres...
Jack Welch, a former boss of General Electric, famously warned that if the rate of change on the outside was more than the rate of change on the inside, then companies would soon fail. Steven Spear, a...
Stephen Dorrell recently told a Westminster health conference that due to the distinct nature of health care services (‘a people business’), the largest ingredient in improving the NHS is its staff. ...
It is now almost a year since the formal devolution of the £6 billion budget for health and social care commissioning to the Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership (GMHSCP) – a coalitio...
While the government has justifiably been keen to trumpet progress in reducing MRSA and C. difficile (CDI) infections in recent years, behind this good news there has also been a steady and worrying r...
There is a growing policy focus on how to empower and engage people and communities in their own health and care. The NHS Five Year Forward View talks about ‘harnessing the renewable energy’ of patien...
