Health Foundation appoints five outstanding researchers to help improve quality of healthcare

Announced in January 2013 these five Improvement Science Fellows, including one nurse, will develop and champion a rigorous, scientific approach to improving the quality of healthcare. Each researcher receives a fully funded three-year award based on their research contributions to date, and their potential to develop and lead the emerging field of improvement science.

The Health Foundation launched their Improvement Science Programme in 2011 to help bring academic rigour to bear on approaches to improve the quality of healthcare. Improvement science is a developing field dedicated to working across academic disciplines to build a knowledge base for improving health services, and translating this knowledge into healthcare practice.

The fellows, supported by an international Improvement Science Development Group of leading academics and practitioners of improvement science, are: