This study explores health care professionals' views about safety in maternity services. It identifies aspects of care that are less safe than they should be, possible ways to improve safety and potential obstacles to achieving these improvements.
This report, the second part of 'The NHS under the coalition government', looks at how well the NHS has performed under the coalition government. The report acknowledges that assessing the performance of any health service is an inexact science for many reasons, but using routinely available data, the report creates ...
This report, published in partnership with NHS Providers, draws on the views and experiences of twelve departed or departing chief executives, or those changing jobs within health care. It aims to illuminate the realities of leadership in today’s NHS. The interviews illustrate both the positives of the job and its ...
This report draws on the experiences of ten senior leaders to look in depth at the skills needed to be a system leader. The ten individuals are from different backgrounds and work in different contexts, and give some very candid reflections on their successes and failures. There was consensus among ...
This report investigates what ‘good’ district nursing care looks like from the perspective of people receiving this care, unpaid carers and district nursing staff and puts forward a framework for understanding the components involved. It also looks at the growing demand–capacity gap in district nursing and the worrying impact that ...
This report, commissioned by Royal Voluntary Service and Helpforce in July 2018, seeks to ascertain how frontline NHS staff working in acute care perceive the roles and value of volunteers and the areas where volunteers’ time can be best used. The report sets out the findings from a survey, a ...
The policy of offering patients a choice in where they receive hospital treatment was intended to create competition between providers, encouraging efficiency and responsiveness to patients’ preferences and ultimately to drive up the quality of care. So has the policy met those aims? Since January 2006, patients requiring a referral ...