Shared Purpose
This programme ran from 2012 to 2015 and supported nine teams with funding of £420,000 each to develop ways for corporate support and clinical teams to work together. It is closed for applications.
Programmes Our programmes test out new ideas for improving the quality of health care and fund research
Our aim is to take the best ideas and encourage uptake throughout the NHS, and publish research findings that will be useful to both policy and practice.
Safety Measurement and Monitoring
This £1.8 million programme began in December 2014. It involved four regional improvement bodies applying Professor Charles Vincent and colleagues' measurement and monitoring framework.
Safer Patients Initiative
This programme ran from 2004 to 2008 and 24 hospitals took part. It was the first major improvement programme to start addressing the issue of patient safety in the UK.
Safer Clinical Systems
A programme that ran in two phases from 2008 to 2013. It helped health care teams to proactively identify potential safety breaches, enabling them to build better, safer health care systems.
Policy Challenge Fund
This programme offered £450,000 to six projects during 2016. The projects aimed to generate insight to support and inform policy makers on important issues in UK health policy. It is closed for applic...
Patient and Family-centred Care
This programme, in partnership with The King's Fund, worked with 11 organisations to bring about sustainable improvement in patients' experience.
Year of Care
This programme ran between 2007 and 2012 at three pilot sites. It funded projects to improve the care of people with diabetes and provide a framework for personalised care in long-term conditions.
Working with strategic health authorities
This programme created partnerships with four strategic health authorities to improve patient safety between 2009 and 2012.
Improving the Primary Care Response to Domestic Violence
This programme ran for two years from 2010. It funded work to ensure that women experiencing domestic violence have direct access to a specialist domestic violence advocate-educator.
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We look for talented and passionate individuals as everyone at the Health Foundation has an important role to play.
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Q is an initiative connecting people with improvement expertise across the UK.
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