Index Catalog // The King's Fund Digital Archive

Author:: King's Fund and Spencer, Linda
Publication date:: 2000
Abstract:: This report has been prepared to share information about rapid response services for older people, to encourage the identification and adoption of good practice and to give people the opportunity to learn from the experiences of others. It draws on information shared at a workshop held by the Rehabilitation Programme ...

Author:: Health Quality Service (King's Fund)
Publication date:: 1999
Abstract:: This new edition of the Health Quality Service accreditation programme has been extensively revised and updated to reflect government health policy and guidance in the various parts of the United Kingdom as well as taking account of changes and developments in quality assurance and improvement programmes nationally and internationally. These ...

Author:: Hamblin, Richard, Boyle, Sean, and London Commission (King's Fund)
Publication date:: 1997
Abstract:: This report provides a comprehensive review of the health and health care of the population of London, based on a variety of published and unpublished data sources. The report considers London in three ways: first, by providing comparisons between different parts of the capital; second, by comparing areas of London ...

Author:: Organisational Audit (King's Fund) and Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
Publication date:: 1997
Abstract:: The publication of this manual of organisational standards is a major milestone for King's Fund Organisational Audit (KFOA) in that it brings together standards for acute hospitals, and the newly developed standards for community, learning disabilities and mental health services. This reflects the changing nature of health care organisations and ...

Author:: Primary Care Group (Development Centre, King's Fund)
Publication date:: 1995
Abstract:: This workshop explored the approaches developed by five NHS general practices who are learning from their patients and communities to develop resources which provide new health creating options. Human considerations are kept to the fore, teamwork and an active partnership with patients are encouraged and a wide range of integrated ...

Author:: Boufford, Jo Ivey and King's Fund College (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1994
Abstract:: This paper is based on a speech delivered at the 1993 annual meeting of the National Association of Health Authorities and Trusts. The author considers how a policy initiative should call for a shift in the balance of services from the hospital to the community by: a shift in the ...

Author:: King Edward's Hospital Fund for London and Department of General Practice and Primary Care (King's College School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of London)
Publication date:: 1994
Abstract:: The Innovation in Medical Education project, based in the Department of General Practice and Primary Care, King's College School of Medicine and Dentistry aimed to explore the implications of a substantial move of medical education into the community. The main areas covered were: interviews with a wide range of interest ...

Author:: NHS Management Executive (Department of Health, Great Britain), King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London), Wilson, Melba, and Prince of Wales Advisory Group on Disability
Publication date:: 1993
Abstract:: The purpose of this document is to take the debate and practice concerning the situation of Black people who are diagnosed as suffering from mental illness beyond the point of counting heads, and instead to focus more on acknowledging and highlighting positive methods of diagnosing and treating mental health problems ...

Author:: McIver, Shirley and King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1993
Abstract:: This publication is the fifth in a series aimed at helping health service staff to obtain the views of service users, and it is written for anyone who has been given this responsibility, whether nursing, medical, paramedical or managerial. The series presumes no social science background and offers a flexible ...

Author:: Heginbotham, Chris and King's Fund College (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1993
Abstract:: The impetus for this publication came from a seminar which was set up on behalf of the NHS Management Executive to investigate the lessons learned for the development of integrated purchasing from the Localities Project. Purchasing patient-centred health (and social) care requires deliberate focus on the patient through: patient centred ...

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