Index Catalog // The King's Fund Digital Archive

Créateur:: Ward, Linda and King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1984
Abstract:: 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 ...

Créateur:: King's Fund Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London) and Towell, David
Publication date:: 1984
Abstract:: This is a review of recent British initiatives based upon the principles of "An ordinary life", for both children and adults with learning difficulties. Key issues discussed include establishing commitment to basic principles, planning comprehensive services, acquiring appropriate housing, financing and staffing the residential service, operational policies and management, staff ...

Créateur:: King's Fund Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London) and Shearer, Ann
Publication date:: 1984
Abstract:: This paper describes innovatory schemes and progress in bringing children with learning difficulties out of hospital. At the conference, Barnardo's N.W. Division presented information about their professional fostering scheme, followed by Portsmouth and S.E. Hampshire Health Authority's provision of alternative accommodation in the community for mentally handicapped children. A dehospitalisation ...

Créateur:: O'Brien, John, King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London), and Sang, Bob
Publication date:: 1984
Abstract:: The concept of advocacy has been slow in gaining acceptance in the UK. An account of the work of Advocacy Alliance is provided here by Bob Sang, its first co-ordinator, who examines all the barriers (both attitudinal and structural) that are placed in the way of any organisation seeking such ...

Créateur:: King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London) and Salvage, Ann V.
Publication date:: 1984
Abstract:: This paper aims to present two main types of information. Firstly, it aims to identify the various factors - demographic, economic and ideological - which have come together to create an unprecedented crisis for those involved in the provision of health and social services to the elderly population. Secondly, it ...

Créateur:: National Association of Head Porters, King's Fund Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London), and Roberts, Irfon
Publication date:: 1984
Abstract:: This booklet was produced to serve as a reminder of the wide range of services given by hospital porters, and especially the part they play in patient care. It discusses the need for training and draws attention to the training now available. Providing a portering service calls for management skills ...

Créateur:: King's Fund Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London) and Roberts, Frances M.
Publication date:: 1984
Abstract:: A small peer group of senior nurses managers meet at the King's Fund Centre bi-monthly to exchange ideas. In 1983-84 they identified a particular concern relating to recording incidents of accidents and the group focussed on the need for nurses to be encouraged to record all such incidents as a ...

Créateur:: Davies, Gillian, Irving, Doreen, London School of Economics and Political Science, King's Fund Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London), Mary's Hospital Medical School (St), and Rice, Peter
Publication date:: 1984
Abstract:: A summary of social characteristics in all district health authorities in England has not been published before. The items presented here are about children, the elderly, housing, migration and economic factors, and include a selection of composite scores. Similar information about electoral wards may be used to identify the most ...

Créateur:: Palmer, Caroline and King's Fund College (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1984

Créateur:: 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, ...

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