Competition policy in five European countries
Focuses on the use of competition policies in health systems across five European countries (France, Germany, Norway, the Netherlands, Portugal), and how learning from these countries can be applied t...
Policy Challenge Fund The Policy Challenge Fund aimed to build interest and expertise in rapid policy analysis within the academic and policy communities, generating insight to support high quality decision making and improve the quality of the policy debate
This programme is closed for applications.
- The Policy Challenge Fund involved high quality, original policy analysis projects.
- Aimed to generate insight to support and inform policy makers on important current and future issues in UK health policy.
- £450,000 was awarded across six projects which were completed in 2016.
Health and care services face challenges in the coming years, particularly in transforming the way care is delivered within tight budgets.
As part of our Policy Challenge Fund, we offered funding to short, focused projects on areas of significance to future policy decisions. Topic areas linked to this central challenge included:
- predictions and support for quality in a resource-constrained NHS
- having constructive conversations on ‘wicked issues’
- competition in health services
- learning about failure from other sectors and health systems.
Aims
The aim was to build interest and expertise in rapid policy analysis within the academic and policy communities, and generate insight that will support high quality decision making and improve the quality of the policy debate.
Each project received funding for research to be completed over 12 months.
The projects were completed during 2016.
Projects
On the brink: Identifying, integrating and responding to the early warnings of organisational failure
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...
Changing together – brokering constructive conversations
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...
‘Hospitals Must Close’: A four system comparison of policy for constructive conversations on controversial service changes
Project led by the University of Edinburgh and supported by the Health Foundation’s Policy Challenge Fund. Due autumn 2016. Aims to increase understanding of good policy and practice in closing hospit...
Public sector failure: Lessons for health care policymakers
Project led by the University of Leicester and supported by the Health Foundation’s Policy Challenge Fund. Due autumn 2016. Focuses on how failure is identified, managed and prevented in non-health pu...
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