Integrating care: Next steps to building strong and effective integrated care systems across England
Our response to NHS England’s consultation on ‘building a strong, integrated care system across England’.
Regulation A significant amount of resource goes into regulating health care in the UK
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.
Our recent work and content on this topic is listed below.
Translating academic research into guidance to support healthcare improvement.
Exploration of guidance development methods.
If major reform of the NHS is on the horizon, can we fly less blind to its impact this time?
Can encouraging competition for clinical care improve performance in the NHS?
'Hospital mergers increase death and harm'? Not so fast…
This paper examines the claims made in the CMA working paper on the impact of hospital competition on rates of patient harm in the English NHS
Automation and digital technology in the NHS of the future
We spoke to Dr Indra Joshi from NHSX about how increased use of technology could help to reshape future NHS care.
50 years of NHS inquiries
It is fifty years since what most people think of as the first NHS inquiry – into failures in care at Ely Hospital in Cardiff. Why do they matter and what we can learn from them?
Health Foundation’s response to NHS Improvement’s consultation on a Single Oversight Framework
NHS Improvement consulted on a Single Oversight Framework for NHS trusts and foundation trusts, which supersedes the regimes of its predecessor bodies Monitor and the NHS Trust Development Authority. ...
Simpler, clearer, more stable: Making accountability work across health and social care
Accountability is not just of theoretical interest: it matters in the real world. The present arrangements for health and social care are complicated enough as it is, and the increasing trend towards ...
Regulation in the NHS and other high risk industries
Research aims to explore the strengths and weaknesses of the current approach to regulation in the NHS and compares the approach in healthcare with that of other high risk industries. Aims to lay the ...
Work with us
We look for talented and passionate individuals as everyone at the Health Foundation has an important role to play.
View current vacanciesThe Q community
Q is an initiative connecting people with improvement expertise across the UK.
Find out more
