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Longer waits, missing patients and catching up
Six charts looking at the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on consultant-led elective care.
This can include treatment for a severe injury, period of illness, urgent medical condition, or to recover from surgery. In the NHS, it often includes services such as accident and emergency (A&E) departments, inpatient and outpatient medicine and surgery.
Our recent work and content on this topic is listed below.
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Six charts looking at the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on consultant-led elective care.
What has changed in cancer care in England over the past two decades? What has worked well, or less well, and why?
This project involved implementing a system-wide early warning tool for acute pathways that will allow better response planning, using advanced data analysis techniques.
Hospitals are treating higher numbers of sicker patients than ever before and the reality is that this comes with a price tag.
What matters to those amazing nurses that work in our NHS? Pay? Somewhat, but when it comes to what motivates them, one thing is clear: it’s not all about the money. Prior to the recent announcement o...
The weekly situation reports are due to end this week but winter pressures on the health service have not relented.
Background: Although many hospital readmission reduction initiatives have been introduced globally, health care systems ultimately aim to improve patients’ health and well-being. We examined whether t...
In this January 2018 blog, we looked at what was happening inside hospitals last winter.
This is an initiative to improve recovery following major surgery and reduce post-surgical complications using ERAS+, a proven pre- and post-surgery training programme.
New Health Foundation analysis shows how much extra capacity could be needed to meet the target.
The project aims to improve the use of post-operative morbidity data by clinicians in order to improve quality of care and patient outcomes.
We look for talented and passionate individuals as everyone at the Health Foundation has an important role to play.
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