Index Catalog // The King's Fund Digital Archive

Créateur:: King's Fund, Dixon, Jennifer, and Harrison, Anthony
Publication date:: 2000
Abstract:: Because the NHS was founded to provide equal access to all on the basis of need rather than the ability to pay, price was eliminated as a method of bringing demand for services into line with supply. This means that the Government has to make decisions about the amount of ...

Créateur:: King's Fund
Publication date:: 1999
Abstract:: This publication is a comprehensive review of health care and policy issues. It includes a detailed description of health events in the last twelve months, as well as discussion of key policy issues. Specific areas dealt with in this issue include: influencing the diffusion of new medical technologies; the future ...

Créateur:: New, Bill and Policy Institute (King's Fund)
Publication date:: 1998
Abstract:: This Review is based on the financial year 1996 to 1997. The first part examines the main events of the year in five key policy areas: creating the new NHS ; community care ; public health strategy; serving the consumer; and clinical knowledge. The second part of the work contains ...

Créateur:: Pickard, Susan, King's Fund, and Ham, Chris
Publication date:: 1998
Abstract:: This book tells the story of Jaymee Bowen (Child B) whose case has come to epitomise the dilemmas involved in making tragic choices in health care. It shows that the story was complex and not simply an example of health care rationing. While media reports at the time emphasised the ...

Créateur:: McClenahan, John, Management College (King's Fund), Smith, Lesley, and R&D Division (Organisation & Management Group, North Thames, NHS Executive, Department of Health, Great Britain)
Publication date:: 1997
Abstract:: This project followed the introduction of beta-interferon in one health region. It provided the opportunity to pilot many helpful approaches to the active management of drugs in health authorities. The report concludes that many of the approaches used in this situation were successful and could be applied to future similar ...

Créateur:: New, Bill and Policy Institute (King's Fund)
Publication date:: 1997
Abstract:: This Review is based on the financial year 1996 to 1997. The first part examines the main events of the year in five key policy areas: creating the new NHS ; community care ; public health strategy; serving the consumer; and clinical knowledge. The second part of the work contains ...

Créateur:: Policy Institute (King's Fund) and Klein, Rudolf
Publication date:: 1997
Abstract:: It is simply not possible to provide people with all the health care they need. Rationing is inevitable and the public must play a major role in the debate. This publication is about talk and action in health care rationing, and presents the latest thinking and practical experience in rationing ...

Créateur:: Le Grand, Julian, Policy Institute (King's Fund), and New, Bill
Publication date:: 1996
Abstract:: How to ration health care is perhaps the most contentious issue currently facing the NHS. The debate is polarised between the view that decisions over rationing should be more explicit, systematic and democratic, and those who argue that such strategies are unrealistic and fail to understand both how the NHS ...

Créateur:: New, Bill, Policy Institute (King's Fund), and Rationing Agenda Group
Publication date:: 1996
Abstract:: This paper presents the issues relating to rationing in the NHS. The group holds the view that rationing is unavoidable and feels that there should be a more explicit debate about the principles and issues involved. Questions are considered under four headings: preliminaries, ethics, democracy and empirical questions. The preliminaries ...

Créateur:: University of Nottingham, King's Fund Institute (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London), McHale, Jean, Dingwall, Robert, New, Bill, and Solomon, Michael
Publication date:: 1994
Abstract:: Transplanting organs from one human to another is increasingly constrained by a shortage of donors. This report describes the wide variations between the number of kidney and heart transplantations and those waiting for these operations both in the United Kingdom and internationally; and how the UK could improve its performance. ...

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