Publications

The Care Quality Commission's State of Care report has both reassuring and disturbing messages: reassuring in that the majority of services are good, but disturbing in that there is significant variation in quality and particularly safety.

Politicians must look for evidence-based solutions and avoid the NHS becoming a political football, says Chris Ham.

John Appleby explores the extent to which poor performance by individual clinicians could be reflected in data available from routine NHS statistics.

Richard Lewis and M. Fletcher highlight the importance of a strategic analysis of the policy process in the design of the national patient safety strategy.

How clear is the link between low winter temperatures and high death rates? John Appleby argues that the NHS needs to measure health outcomes as well as health care outputs.