Quick guides Essential information about key topics, drawing on Health Foundation projects and research
Our popular quick guides offer an overview of a topic, or distill lessons from our research and work with others to help people put them into practice.
Browse the latest guides below.
Quality improvement made simple
Updated in 2021, this third edition outlines what you need to know about health care quality improvement.
How can businesses contribute to people’s health?
Read our guide, produced with Blueprint for Better Business, exploring how businesses can have a positive impact on the health of society.
What makes us healthy?
This guide explores how a person’s opportunity for health is influenced by factors outside the health and social care system.
Communicating your research - a toolkit
This toolkit is for researchers to help increase influence and impact in health and health care.
A practical guide to self-management support
This guide provides an overview of self-management support and the key components for effective implementation.
Communications in health care improvement - a toolkit
A toolkit for professionals who want to use communications to better plan, implement and spread their health improvement work.
Evaluation: what to consider
This guide is intended to assist those new to evaluation by suggesting methodological and practical considerations and providing resources to support further learning
Using communications approaches to spread improvement
The guide is for those actively engaged in health care improvement work and introduces key concepts about spreading ideas, and examines the evidence about the role communications can play
Person-centred care made simple
This guide is a quick overview of person-centred care, offering a clear explanation of the principles, why it is important, how it has developed, and some examples to help those considering putting pe...
A framework for measuring and monitoring safety
This guide aims to support NHS organisations to apply a framework for measuring and monitoring safety.
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