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Créateur:: Consumer Feedback Resource (Quality Improvement Programme, King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development, King Edward's Hospital Fund for London) and McIver, Shirley
Publication date:: 1991
Abstract:: Compared to other health services, outpatient departments attract high levels of patient dissatisfaction and yet surveys of outpatients with the aims of improving services have been taking place for several years. So why is there still a high level of dissatisfaction? One of the reasons is that surveys are not ...

Créateur:: Marks, Linda and King's Fund Institute (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1991
Abstract:: The boundaries between home and hospital care are constantly shifting. Care in the community for people with long term dependencies, and increasingly sophisticated primary care service and the expansion of outreach care and day surgery have all contributed to a reassessment of the central role of the hospital. This research ...

Créateur:: Viens-Bitker, Cathrine, King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London), Durieux, Pierre, Mays, Nicholas, Kirchberger, Stefan, Stocking, Barbara, and Kamper-Jorgensen, Finn
Publication date:: 1991
Abstract:: Medical technology, defined broadly to include drugs, procedures and equipment used singly or in combination, has been of enormous benefit in improving the quality of health care. It has, however, raised many issues about how society can afford to pay for these often expensive developments and about associated ethical problems ...

Créateur:: Hubert, Jane and King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1991
Abstract:: This book describes the experiences of twenty families who have, living at home, a teenager or young adult with severe learning difficulties who has been classified by professionals as 'severely' or 'profoundly' mentally handicapped, and who also has 'serious behavioural problems'. It documents the lives of these families, and the ...

Créateur:: Honigsbaum, Frank and King's Fund College (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1991
Abstract:: This paper traces the origins of the Oregon plan, explains how it works and passes judgment on its worth. The Oregon plan is a controversial health rationing plan for the poor under America's Medicaid system. Over 700 services have been ranked in priority order and the state legislature has said ...

Créateur:: Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Henwood, Melanie, Nuffield Institute for Health Services Studies (University of Leeds), Wistow, Gerald, King's Fund Institute (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London), and Jowell, Tessa
Publication date:: 1991
Abstract:: The phasing in of the National Health Service reforms over two years from April 1991 to 1993 has a number of implications. The uncertain climate which has long surrounded community care will be protracted, and financial pressures will increase as the demand driven social security budget continues to rise. The ...

Créateur:: Matthews, Tim, Ham, Chris, and King's Fund College (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1991
Abstract:: This report looks at the new role of district health authorities as purchasers of services for their residents. The report shows that non-executive members have the following contributions to make to the work of their authorities: bringing a wider range of experience than is available among the executive members; ensuring ...

Créateur:: Ham, Chris, Heginbotham, Chris, and King's Fund College (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1991
Abstract:: The successful implementation of the NHS reforms hinges on the development of district health authorities as effective purchasers of health care for their residents. The NHS has always been provider driven and if services are to be delivered more efficiently and responsively then it is essential that health authorities are ...

Créateur:: King Edward's Hospital Fund for London, Ham, Chris, and Beardshaw, Virginia
Publication date:: 1991
Abstract:: The first part of this briefing looks at the implications of the NHS reforms in theory and in practice and presents the six lines of enquiry which might be pursued. The second section discusses the particular impact of the NHS reforms on London which has maintained a very significant number ...

Créateur:: Gunaratnam, Yasmin, Health Education Authority, and King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1991

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