Report from the Race Equality Foundation that within the English health system the equality and diversity (E&D) and health inequalities (HI) agendas remain poorly integrated at both national and local level. In particular, the HI agenda has largely failed to pay explicit attention to axes of inequality other than the socioeconomic gradient.

The latest Annual Report from the Centre for Health Economics is now available to view. Inside you will find details of research and training activities, outputs and presentations, as well as profiles of new staff and students.

The framework brings together information about patients’ rights to choice about their health care, where to get more information to help make a choice, and how they can complain if they have not been offered choice.

The 2014 to 2015 version reflects changes to expansions of patients’ rights to choice in the areas of:

• general practice
• mental health
• personal health budgets

The NHS Choice Framework will be updated annually, as choice rights expand to new services and patient groups.

“Part of the reason why quality improvement is so hard to achieve may be that those involved in leading QI programmes need to deploy three different but interrelated types of improvement skills: technical, soft and learning skills.”

Skilled for improvement?
The Health Foundation
March 2014

Short video on the concept and implementation of brain swarming as an alternate method of generating ideas. The theory is based on the problem solving capabilities of ants.