Foundation calls for more help to get older people active following Qa insights
A charitable foundation has called on the government to make physical activity among older people a priority, following research carried […]
Health
Tackling health inequalities: Three lessons for gaining public support
Georgina Culliford carried out in-depth research for the NHS into a scheme aiming to direct healthcare resources to the people most in need. She shares her insights into how to get people onside with a potentially controversial project
Qa to share insights on health inequalities at Social Research Association event
Among those taking part is Qa Research senior research executive Georgina Culliford
How one health and care system is developing a Home First approach
In a guest blog, Shak Rafiq of NHS Leeds Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) reveals the challenges involved in introducing improved patient flows across the city’s health and social care system
Many of us are missing out on important health checks. But there is a way to change that
Taking health screening into the community could improve take-up rates, and deliver key benefits to the NHS – as long as you approach it in the right way, writes Becky Gulc
Many disabled people want to be more active. How can we make that happen?
Fewer than half of disabled adults meet activity guidelines. Ben Thatcher says more needs to be done to identify and remove the barriers to participation
Five ways predictive health care could transform the NHS
How might cutting-edge tech and the data it can harness change our health service?
Making prevention a priority: How healthy living and early detection are now at the heart of NHS strategy
The 2020s have been labelled as the decade of “proactive, predictive, and personalised prevention”
Digital technology can make a real different to adult social care. Here’s how
We are now starting to see tangible benefits to social care users, from young adults to those in old age
Here’s how one mental health scheme helped people rebuild their confidence – and keep their jobs
Kay Silversides explores why one social prescribing scheme has proved so successful