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Creatore:: King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1982
Abstract:: The authors of this paper came together to study the development of comprehensive local residential services for mentally handicapped people. Although government policy had urged a move towards community-based services for mentally handicapped people, the numbers admitted to mental handicap hospitals for long-term care went up during the 1960s and ...

Creatore:: King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1982
Abstract:: The conference aimed to bring together practitioners in housing, social services and psychiatry; to explore the links and gaps, the successes and the failings; and to point out some signposts for future development of service to meet needs. In particular, the conference explored three themes: 1) the varying definitions of ...

Creatore:: King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London) and Shearer, Ann
Publication date:: 1981
Abstract:: This study was commissioned by the Department of Health and Social Security and the King's Fund Centre to provide an independent account of alternatives to hospital care for children with learning difficulties who need long-term residential care. The report draws on examples from health and social services authorities and discusses ...

Creatore:: McFarlane, Jean and King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1980
Abstract:: As highlighted by the report of the Royal Commission on the NHS, nurses are the largest staff group in the NHS and account for over one quarter of the total current expenditure in the NHS. Compared to doctors, their manpower and training needs have received relatively little attention until the ...

Creatore:: Maxwell, Robert J. and King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1980
Abstract:: The Royal Commission study on international health services included discussions with experts, visits to other countries by members of the Commission and comparative health service statistics prepared by McKinsey and Co. Inc. This study was commissioned in 1978 and provides a commentary on the unpublished McKinsey statistics. Tables and statistics ...

Creatore:: King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London) and MacGuire, Jillian M.
Publication date:: 1980
Abstract:: In recent years, the concept of the expanded role of the nurse has aroused much discussion; some hostile, some favourable, amongst the medical, nursing and administrative professions. This paper explores and documents the vast body of literature covering this area and includes an invaluable bibliography of American and British sources. ...

Creatore:: King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London), Farrell, Christine, and Robinson, David
Publication date:: 1980
Abstract:: In its report, the Royal Commission on the NHS stated that the NHS should "encourage and assist individuals to remain healthy." These papers describe two means towards achieving that objective: health education and the development of self-help groups. The first paper written by the principal research officer of the Royal ...

Creatore:: King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London) and Dopson, Laurence
Publication date:: 1980
Abstract:: This conference considered that continuing education is the mark of a profession and it looked at the following questions: How does one enthuse British nurses, who generally are not committed to continuing education?; Why the difference in attitude between them and American nurses, who on the whole are more continued ...

Creatore:: King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London), McFarlane, Jean, and Batchelor, Ivor
Publication date:: 1980
Abstract:: The development of multidisciplinary working in the administrative and clinical settings received much comment in the evidence at the Royal Commission. The first paper here is a summary of the issues involved. The second, by Professor Ivor Batchelor, a member of the Commission and Professor of Psychiatry, details experience of ...

Creatore:: King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1980
Abstract:: This pamphlet gives an account of a meeting whose aim was an exchange of information between those with experience of care attendant schemes and those with experience of the needs of those with learning difficulties and their families.

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