Effective regulation is held to be one of the foundations of high quality, safe patient care. It aims to improve performance and quality, provide assurance that acceptable standards are achieved, and ensure accountability for levels of performance and value for money.
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Six policy projects have been selected as part of the Health Foundation’s new Policy Challenge Fund, covering a range of topics. The programme aims to generate insight to support and inform policymake...
Project led by the University of Oxford and supported by the Health Foundation’s Policy Challenge Fund. Focuses on how to detect and respond to the early signals of failures in health care, before ris...
Project led by the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), PPL and the Institute for Government; supported by the Health Foundation’s Policy Challenge Fund. Due summer 2016. Focuses on how best t...
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...
Conducted by Dr Julian Archer at the University of Plymouth, Revalidation in Practice was an 18-month primary research study that aimed to understand and assess the impact of revalidation on clinician...
This research aims to create a resource to support policymakers in setting better national performance targets for the NHS, and make more effective cases for changing existing targets that are no long...
I had the good fortune to visit Denmark earlier this month to talk at a seminar for leaders from the health regions in Denmark. It’s a time of great change for the Danish in their approach to health c...
It has been just over a year since Professor Don Berwick produced his review of patient safety in England. The review offered a distinct shift in emphasis from the focus of the Francis Inquiry. Most n...
Today the CQC has published its fifth annual report on the state of health and care services in England, which has revealed frontline staff delivering excellent care but also poor services where peopl...
The Scottish referendum has given politicians across the three main UK parties a timely reminder of the electoral potency of the NHS. It was one of the big issues at the end of the campaign. Nationall...
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