Index Catalog // The King's Fund Digital Archive

O Criador:: King Edward's Hospital Fund for London
Publication date:: 1990
Abstract:: In May 1985, five young men aged between 18 and 21 moved out of Brockhall Hospital (a long stay hospital for people with learning difficulties) to take up the tenancy of their own home in Blackburn. They moved with 9.5 whole-time equivalent health service staff to help them to learn ...

O Criador:: Brazil, Richard, Carle, Nan, and King Edward's Hospital Fund for London
Publication date:: 1988
Abstract:: The philosophy of 'an ordinary life' has been the basis of a wide range of local initiatives, and increasingly influences large-scale changes in community care. This book includes contributions from seventeen people who as users, innovators and evaluators have been involved centrally in these developments. They review current practice in ...

O Criador:: King Edward's Hospital Fund for London
Publication date:: 1987
Abstract:: The NIMROD service is recognised as being to the forefront of the move towards community care. This book uses a case-study approach to illustrate the experiences of seven people with learning difficulties who use this service. The case studies are analysed in terms of a number of interwoven concepts: presence ...

O Criador:: Campaign for People with Mental Handicaps, King Edward's Hospital Fund for London, and Shearer, Ann
Publication date:: 1986
Abstract:: Building community describes 30 different services, which between them, are offering family support, alternative homes for children and a variety of housing. They are working towards integration in ordinary local patterns of education, employment and leisure. They believe that everyone with a mental handicap has a right to a valued ...

O Criador:: Richardson, Ann, Ritchie, Jane, and King Edward's Hospital Fund for London
Publication date:: 1986
Abstract:: This paper is addressed to a wide range of people concerned with the provision of care for people with learning difficulties their families. It is the result of research among parents whose adult sons and daughters with learning difficulties live at home, and explores their perspectives on the eventual move ...

O Criador:: Department of Mental Health (University of Bristol) and King Edward's Hospital Fund for London
Publication date:: 1986
Abstract:: The papers that comprise this collection are the proceedings of a workshop organised by the Department of Mental Health, University of Bristol, in May 1986. The workshop aimed to explore issues and strategies for ensuring quality in community services for people with mental handicap. The papers are organised and presented ...

O Criador:: Oswin, Maureen and King Edward's Hospital Fund for London
Publication date:: 1984
Abstract:: Between 1977 and 1981 the author visited over 100 places providing short-term care for children who are mentally handicapped and interviewed families whose children were receiving short-term care. This book describes the development of short-term residential care, who makes use of it, parents' reactions to and opinions of the services, ...

O Criador:: Paine, Leslie and King Edward's Hospital Fund for London
Publication date:: 1974
Abstract:: This account of ways and means of improving coordination of services for children and young people with learning difficulties is written especially for members and senior managers of the various authorities - health and welfare, statutory and voluntary - concerned with helping and caring for these people. It is essentially ...

O Criador:: King Edward's Hospital Fund for London, Eliott, James, and Bayes, Kenneth
Publication date:: 1972
Abstract:: This book has been produced to convey the idea that people with learning difficulties are entitled to dignified, homelike surroundings which will give them fuller enjoyment and will also help them to learn how to live. Most of the ideas are not original, but they stem from a general awakening ...

O Criador:: King Edward's Hospital Fund for London
Publication date:: 1955
Abstract:: In the first half-century of its work, the King's Fund was concerned with the support, benefit and extension of the voluntary hospitals of London, and therefore had little or no contact with mental and mental deficiency hospitals. When the National Health Service Act was implemented in 1948, the need for ...

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