Briefings
Including updates on our funded programmes and Viewpoints on a range of policy issues
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Improving maternal and newborn care in Malawi
This leaflet introduces The Health Foundation’s ground-breaking programme in Malawi. This aims to save the lives of women and newborn babies and provide real and sustainable changes to maternity and newborn care.
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Developing leaders to improve patient care
Developing leaders to improve patient care is a statement about what The Health Foundation has learnt about leadership.
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Co-creating Health
This briefing paper describes The Health Foundation's Co-creating Health initiaitve and outlines the need for an effective integrated approach to self-management support. It also includes early experiences from the Co-creating Health teams.
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Safe from harm
This briefing shows how The Health Foundation’s Safer Patients Initiative is reducing medical incidents in 24 hospitals and making healthcare safer for patients.
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Leading lights
This briefing describes how The Health Foundation is improving the quality of care for patients through leadership development schemes for individuals and teams.
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Team spirit
This briefing describes how The Health Foundation’s Shared Leadership for Change initiative is helping teams to work together to improve diabetes care.
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Health and social care viewpoint
This statement sets out The Health Foundation’s position on key proposals in the government’s Health and Social Care Bill.
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Necessary measures
All clinicians want to provide patients with the best possible care. However, the only way clinicians can be certain about the quality of care they provide is by measuring what actually happens and comparing this to established best practice.
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Engaging with Quality in Primary Care
Over 80 per cent of contact between the public and the health service takes place in primary care settings. The Health Foundation’s Engaging with Quality in Primary Care scheme is funding nine projects to engage primary care clinicians in improving clinical quality in primary care in the UK.
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Better team working for a safer hospital
One in ten patients admitted to hospitals in developed countries suffer harm as a result of medical errors. This briefing looks at how The Health Foundation’s Safer Patients Initiative has improved patient safety using the concept of shared leadership.