The Long Term Care Team at the King's Fund Centre was concerned that there were difficulties facing some disabled people coming into contact with staff of health authorities. This meeting was set up to bring together multi-disciplinary professional trainers to look at the issue of health authority staff's attitudes to ...
This training manual has been written over many months by a group of people who brought with them a healthy scepticism of the concept of quality circles. It is offered as a model, no way suggesting a blueprint, but it contains many good ideas which may be adapted to any ...
Since the publication of An Ordinary Life in 1980, the King's Fund has shared with a large and growing network of people across the country in efforts to develop comprehensive community-based services. Experience has underlined the importance of staff training in its broadest sense as a fundamental contribution to the ...
Planning for people is a series of pamphlets designed to share information gained from the experience of setting up and running a comprehensive community service for adults with mental handicap in South Bristol, using ordinary housing. They are intended to give an account of the Bristol development, and some discussion ...
An Ordinary Life explores what is meant by training, and discusses the importance of education in values and the formation of beliefs and ideas. The role of parents as part of the care team is examined, as is the need for a clear definition of tasks ranging from policies to ...
These notes are offered as a memory jog for those attending the colloquium. In it is included a delegates list and questions for group discussion. The questions were: selecting students for courses; what are the expectations of graduate nurses? (to include consideration of the underlying philosophy of the undergraduate courses); ...