This book aims to stimulate discussion and action about the serious difficulties facing the NHS in industrial relations. It aims to help the development of more effective industrial relations which the NHS badly needs and looks at how improvements might be made realistically within the current framework of management. Chapters ...
This was the first in a series of seminars on the study of priorities in medical care and the performance of management in relation to medical services. This collection of papers attempts to define minor illness and then examines what services care for it and existing alternatives. Individual papers cover ...
These papers were first presented at a seminar on the management of chronic illness, in a series supported by the King's Fund as a contribution to the study of priorities in medical care and the performance of management in relation to medical services. This publication comprises the papers which were ...
The major aim of this directory has been to concentrate on organisations working in the health area. Several of the social welfare type of organisations have been included for two reasons. Firstly, because many organisations, although not set up to deal specifically with problems of illness or handicap, nevertheless operate ...
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 ...
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 ...
The International Seminar of Nurses held at the King's Fund College in July 1976 was the third in the series. The question of leadership and the emergence of leaders is of paramount importance to the nursing profession in the three countries represented, Canada, United Kingdom and United States of America. ...