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Drawing on interviews with NHS managers and leaders, this long read sets out insights on the role and practice of managers and the main challenges still to address.
Background: Stroke can result in death and long-term disability. Fast and high-quality care can reduce the impact of stroke, but UK national audit data has demonstrated variability in compliance with ...
Patients, clinicians and managers all want to be reassured that their healthcare organisation is safe. But there is no consensus about what we mean when we ask whether a healthcare organisation is saf...
The NHS excels at measuring incidences of past harm – whether it is falls or hospital-acquired infections – but research undertaken by Charles Vincent, Jane Carthey and Susan Burnett for the Health Fo...
Objectives: To review the empirical literature to identify the activities, time spent and engagement of hospital managers in quality of care. Design: A systematic review of the literature. Metho...
Background: Emergency laparotomies in the UK, USA and Denmark are known to have a high risk of death, with accompanying evidence of suboptimal care. The emergency laparotomy pathway quality improvemen...
The Health Foundation will be exhibiting at Health and Care innovation Expo 2017 in Manchester, 11-12 September. NHS Expo celebrates innovation, enterprise and collaboration. It unites NHS and heal...
The Health Foundation will be exhibiting at NHS Confederation’s annual conference and exhibition on the 14 - 15 June 2017. The event brings together the health and social care community to strength...
The RCP’s annual conference, 16-17 March 2017 is the flagship event for hospital doctors. Speakers range from health care leaders and clinicians, to politicians and academics. They will present resear...
Today is a good improvement day. A helpful contact in St George’s clinical coding team has been able to extract some data that would have taken me weeks to find by myself. As part of emergency surgery...
Today has seen the publication of Developing People – Improving Care – a welcome statement of ambition from national bodies to bring leadership and improvement together, and to bring coherence and qua...
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