This review examines the meaning of rehabilitation, the provision of it and responsibilities for rehabilitation services within health and social care, and trends in the availability of provision. It concludes that there is increasing awareness of the importance of rehabilitation but, in practice, opportunities for it are not being fully ...
The evaluation of Total Purchasing Project (TPP) initiatives in the field of continuing and community care was designed to provide answers to three key questions: to what extent were the TPPs aware of the policy consensus that has emerged in relation to the planning and delivery of continuing and community ...
In the 1960s, the King's Fund caused a major stir when it developed a new specification for hospital beds. Manufacturers implemented the specification as the 'King's Fund bed', which was revolutionary in its time and a major step forward in patient care. Today, more than 30 years later, the bed ...
In the 1960s, the King's Fund caused a major stir when it developed a new specification for hospital beds. Manufacturers implemented the specification as the 'King's Fund bed', which was revolutionary in its time and a major step forward in patient care. Today, more than 30 years later, the bed ...
In the 1960s, the King's Fund caused a major stir when it developed a new specification for hospital beds. Manufacturers implemented the specification as the 'King's Fund bed', which was revolutionary in its time and a major step forward in patient care. Today, more than 30 years later, the bed ...
Six citizens' juries pilot schemes, sponsored by the Institute for Public Policy Research and the King's Fund, took place in the NHS between June 1996 and March 1997. This book evaluates all aspects of this experiment, from an explanation of the background to the pilots to descriptions of the jury ...
This is a review of intensive care and high dependency care at Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust, which followed on from a trust-wide organisational review carried out in the previous year.
This working paper is the first report from the national evaluation of total purchasing pilot projects to provide evidence on the achievements of all 53 'first wave' pilots in England and Scotland. It also looks at the range of factors associated with more and less successful total purchasing in 1996-97 ...
This report draws together the interim findings from the first two years of a three year evaluation of all first and second wave TPPs in England and Scotland which began in October 1995, led by the King's Fund. The report discusses whether first wave TPPs have developed the organisational requirements ...
The aim of this working paper is to present a profile of the thirty-five second wave Total Purchasing Pilots (TPPs) in England and Scotland as part of the national evaluation of TPPs. Its objectives are: to describe the basic characteristics of the second wave TPPs, particularly highlighting similarities and differences ...