Tom Hardie Improvement Fellow
Tom joined the Health Foundation in April 2018 as Improvement Fellow.
Tom joined the Health Foundation from NHS England where he was Clinical Policy and Strategy Team Manager, covering maternity and women’s health.
Tom was previously Communications and Engagement Lead for the National Maternity Review. He has held a number of other policy and project management roles at NHS England and the Department of Health.
Prior to this, Tom worked for Minority Rights Group International, Hackney Community Law Centre and Intiwawa, a children’s charity in Peru. Tom received a distinction in his master’s degree in Law from SOAS, University of London, where he specialised in human rights.
Publications
- Developing a set of consensus indicators to support maternity service quality improvement: using Core Outcome Set methodology including a Delphi process, BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
- Better Births - Improving outcomes of maternity services in England, National Maternity Review
Latest articles
Blog
Harnessing the potential of automation and AI in health care
Tim Horton and Tom Hardie set out 15 recommendations to help policymakers and the NHS get the best...
Blog
The challenge of going green: creating a more sustainable Health Foundation
As a funder, investor and a workplace, environmental sustainability should be a 'green thread'...
Blog
A complex patchwork of programmes
The Health Foundation’s Improvement team share some findings from their mapping of the health care...
Research report
Switched on
Analysis exploring the opportunities for automation and AI in health care and the challenges of...
Chart
Patients and machines: does technology help or hinder empathy and person-centred care?
Tim Horton and Tom Hardie explore empathy and person-centredness in the context of technology and AI...
Long read
Securing a positive health care technology legacy from COVID-19
During the pandemic, the NHS has rolled out technologies at impressive speed. But what will need...
Blog
Towards a greener NHS?
Tom Hardie explores health implications of climate change and explores how NHS can work towards net...
Newsletter blog
Making new technologies work for everyone
While automation has been with us since the Industrial Revolution, recent advances in artificial...
Blog
Joined-up care in action
The work of Pathway shows how services can be brought together to help homeless people with complex...
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