Index Catalog // The King's Fund Digital Archive

Creatore:: Wickings, Iden and King Edward's Hospital Fund for London
Publication date:: 1994
Abstract:: This is a report on a competition held in 1993 by the King's Fund to find excellent examples of large hospital developments which were opened in Britain between 1980 and 1990. The aims for both National Health Service and independent sector hospitals were: to offer a high quality of life ...

Creatore:: King Edward's Hospital Fund for London
Publication date:: 1991
Abstract:: The second edition of 'The Nation's Health' is an extensively revised and updated assessment of trends in health status and public health policy and practice over the last decade. Its wide-ranging scientific analysis forms the basis for developing 17 health priorities and a clearly defined strategy for improving health over ...

Creatore:: Mays, Nicholas B. and King Edward's Hospital Fund for London
Publication date:: 1990
Abstract:: The report attempts to review the main issues surrounding the funding and management of units providing dialysis services to people suffering from end-stage renal failure in the UK for the benefit of health service managers, renal physicians and other staff. The objective is to review the experience and information currently ...

Creatore:: Coulter, Angela, King Edward's Hospital Fund for London, McPherson, Klim, and Sanders, Diana
Publication date:: 1989
Abstract:: This report summarises the literature on geographical variations in hospital admission rates in the UK and internationally. It is restricted to studies of inpatient admissions. It concludes that the examination of the variations provides invaluable insights into the nature and extent of medical uncertainty, and that this information is essential ...

Creatore:: King Edward's Hospital Fund for London
Publication date:: 1989
Abstract:: In 1988 the King's Fund covered a multi-disciplinary panel to consider the following questions and to prepare a statement for discussion at a consensus conference: is there scientific evidence that ICUs cause a decrease in morbidity and mortality; what criteria should be set for admission and discharge to intensive care ...

Creatore:: King Edward's Hospital Fund for London
Publication date:: 1988
Abstract:: This publication reviews the progress in public health over the last decade. It seeks to interpret trends in health and to identify measures likely to be effective in promoting the public health. It outlines a national strategy for the next decade, identifying the public responsibilities of government and of the ...

Creatore:: Hunter, David J., Wistow, Gerald, and King Edward's Hospital Fund for London
Publication date:: 1987
Abstract:: Although the development of community care has been national policy in Britain for at least thirty years, it means something quite different in England, Scotland and Wales. This book offers a comparative study both of the central government departments responsible for making and implementing policy for community care, and of ...

Creatore:: King Edward's Hospital Fund for London
Publication date:: 1983
Abstract:: Papers from a King's Fund international seminar. The contributors work in the health services in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom and the United States. The book deals with three important aspects of working with people in the context of health service administration. The first is that of trying to ...

Creatore:: Reedy, Barry L. and King Edward's Hospital Fund for London
Publication date:: 1978
Abstract:: This study compares the American experience of both nurse practitioners and physician's assistant with that of Britain. The study traces their professional development alongside that of traditional medicine and nursing and reviews the literature and relevant legislation. The author describes his observations of the work and training of the different ...

Creatore:: Maxwell, Robert J. and King Edward's Hospital Fund for London
Publication date:: 1978
Abstract:: This book is a collection of papers given at a conference which examined what the role of senior administrators in the health field should be. The following four questions were addressed by the speakers. Does the senior health administrator have a role as either innovator or catalyst in 1) the ...

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