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 ...
In January 1980 the Conservative Government appointed a study group under Sir Donald Acheson to produce ambitious proposals for rapid and effective action on primary care in London. This report examines how and why the study group was established, the issues it confronted, the route by which it reached its ...
This is the report of an independent committee, chaired by Lady Margaret McCarthy, which undertook the review at the invitation of the Hospital Caterers' Association and with the support of a grant from the King's Fund. The committee was asked to investigate and report on the perceived needs of patients ...
This is the third paper by the authors on managing the relocation of psychiatric services from large institutions to new patterns of local provision. It offers a summary of their current thinking about the characteristics of an assessment and resettlement model which would be compatible with the wider planning issues ...
This publication consists of the collated information of a survey undertaken in the autumn of 1985 by the Long Term and Community Care Team at the King's Fund Centre. All NHS district general managers in the UK were contacted, to find out about innovations in services for the elderly during ...
Recent changes in the administrative structure of the NHS seem to have been accompanied by a more marked degree of stress related behaviour. There has been specific concern about nurses and in 1983 the King's Fund awarded a grant to investigate the job-related problems of nurse managers at ward sister ...
This paper seeks to analyse how the role of district health authority members developed in the period around and after the 1982 reorganisation of the NHS, and it seeks to identify how the role of members can be strengthened within the existing framework of the NHS. Some ideas and principles ...
The author documents the harm caused by secure institutions. Policy makers must accept that a search for other models of care is necessary, otherwise the institutions remaining will never be able to meet the diverse needs of their inhabitants. This book makes the case for 'flexible' institutions which would offer ...