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Targets, trajectories and waiting times
The publication of the Department of Health (DH) annual accounts has been well reported: they showed an overspend on the allocated health budget for the year 2015/16, and a sharp deterioration of fina...
Will technology improve health and health care?
Over the last nine months, I’ve been investigating the future of health and health care and the interplay with technology. Health care is not alone in looking to technology to improve the future – man...
Could constructive conversations make the tough year ahead for the NHS a little easier?
In his recent speech to the NHS Confederation Simon Stevens, the chief executive of NHS England, said that times were going to be very tough for the NHS: finances would need to be stabilised; services...
Will removing bursaries for student nurses actually lead to more nursing staff?
Demand pressures on the NHS rise every year. To cope with these pressures and provide the same quality of service, we need to train more clinical professionals and nurses in Britain year after year. B...
Shaping our strategy to improve health
If you follow Health Foundation news you may have noticed a different flavour to some of our more recent publications. A focus on what is variably called public health, population health or health and...
The economic case for preventing ill health
Potentially preventable physical and mental health conditions, including some cardiovascular disease, cancers, and type 2 diabetes, are the leading causes of ill health and death in the UK. The ind...
The potential offered by a coherent NHS quality strategy
Aneurin Bevan’s famous dropped bedpan continues to echo through the corridors of Whitehall, defying various attempts to improve the soundproofing. But the reverse is also true. The reverberations o...
The Catch-22 of performance and penalties
It’s been over a month since the sobering news that the NHS provider deficit had reached £2.45bn at the end of the 2015/16 with 65% of all providers in the red. Having recently joined the Health Fo...
Health cannot be improved by health care alone
Having spent the last 15 years with a focus on improving health care, the Health Foundation is embarking on a new strategy to influence the wider determinants of health. This week, as a first step, we...
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