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Author:: Health Education Authority, King's Fund, McClenahan, John, and Howard, Linda
Publication date:: 1999
Abstract:: This report focuses on NHS trust mergers and mergers of health authorities. It was commissioned by the HEA to summarise the available literature. It describes common causes of failure, and suggests ways in which NHS leaders involved in merger can enable the organisational aims of the merger to be achieved, ...

Author:: Arora, Shona, Thompson, Sarah, King's Fund, and Davies, Anne
Publication date:: 1999
Abstract:: Health Improvement Programmes (HImPs) are a key innovation in the Government's health policy. They are intended to bring together the main statutory and voluntary bodies in each health authority area, to plan and deliver measures to improve the health of the local population. The first round of HImPs was completed ...

Author:: King's Fund
Publication date:: 1999
Abstract:: In this collection of stories, six managers and practitioners talk about their experiences of working with their counterparts in health and social services in development initiatives that were supported by the King's Fund in the period 1993-98. All of the accounts provide insights into the way people in primary health ...

Author:: Smith, Judith, Martin, Geraldine, King's Fund, Ham, Chris, Health Services Management Centre (University of Birmingham), and Barnes, Marian
Publication date:: 1998
Abstract:: This report summarises the main results of a survey of approaches to commissioning. All health authorities were surveyed and a 100 per cent response was achieved. The survey sought to map different approaches to commissioning and to assess the impact of these approaches from the perspective of health authorities. The ...

Author:: King's Fund, Gordon, Pat, Pratt, Julian, and Plamping, Diane
Publication date:: 1998
Abstract:: This paper offers a way of thinking about the purpose of partnership; partnership behaviours which fit different purposes; and partnership behaviours which can lead to sustainable change and are not dependent on injections of external resources. The authors have created a typology which focuses on the purpose of partnership, in ...

Author:: Newman, Penny, King's Fund, Boyle, Sean, Morley, Virginia, Mays, Nicholas, and Towell, David
Publication date:: 1997
Abstract:: This report is a review of the evaluation of the London Initiative Zone (L.I.Z.) primary care development projects which were established through the former London Implementation Group (LIG) and which were in progress in 1995/6. It particularly focuses on the evaluation of revenue projects aimed at service development in primary ...

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