Publications
This section lists all our publications. You can search the index by keyword, topic or date.
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Consultation response
Evidence to the Health Committee’s patient safety inquiry
The Health Foundation's response to the Health Committee’s inquiry into patient safety urges the NHS to make patient safety its top priority.
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Research report
Paying the patient: does it work? A review of patient-targeted incentives
This report summarises the evidence on the effectiveness of patient incentives in improving quality of healthcare.
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Research report
Does public release of performance results improve quality of care? A systematic review
The latest QQUIP report summarises the evidence related to public reporting and its effect on quality improvement.
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Briefing
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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Briefing
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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Briefing
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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Research report
Further evidence on the link between healthcare spending and health outcomes in England
This report examines the link between healthcare spending and health outcomes across primary care trusts. It uses data prepared by the trusts to examine years of life lost across programmes of care.
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Research report
Bridging the quality gap
Bridging the quality gap explores the quality of stroke care in the UK. Despite the national priority accorded to stroke, services are not as high quality as they should be.
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Consultation response
Developing the annual health check in 2008/09
The annual health check assesses how well NHS trusts perform during the financial year. Our comments focus on the Healthcare Commission’s development of a new methodology for annual visits to acute trusts in order to measure compliance with the Hygiene Code.
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Research report
Financial incentives, healthcare providers and quality improvements
This report reviews the literature to determine the effects of financial incentives on the behaviour of healthcare organisations and individuals regarding the quality of care they deliver.