The aim of this unpublished paper is to provide all Londoners with primary and community health services which both meet their needs for high quality health care and which - over time - can appropriately substitute for certain services currently provided in acute hospitals. If Sir Bernard Tomlinson's recommendations are ...
This is a report of the initiative in Islington which was part of a larger project to test out ideas which came from a number of sources. It was concerned with looking at how far small-scale approaches to the management and delivery of services could improve the quality of primary ...
Written for managers of community health services, this book offers practical help on how to make services user friendly and more responsive to the needs of people who use them. Detailed case studies provide ideas for people 'getting started' as well as describing some common pitfalls. The particular problems associated ...
The DHSS funded three development workers to work in three differing health authorities to explore the possibilities for improving primary health care in the inner city by developing patch or locality management and planning of services work more closely together; and to establish three local experiments with different approaches to ...
This report suggests ways in which managers and professionals can make community care more responsive to elderly people. The first part of the report examines ageism and its effects on health care. It describes how elderly people from black and ethnic minority groups are effected by racism. Part Two is ...
The future of community services was the title of a conference held in November 1988 at the King's Fund. This report follows the format of the conference, with speakers' presentations followed by reports of the discussions which took place in the afternoon workshops. Also explored are the role of the ...
The NHS is a vast and complex organisation, never out of the public eye and now the focus of major political argument. The author examines the way the NHS works and the incentives that motivate everyone concerned - the general public, the health professionals and managers, and the government. There ...
This publication contains reports on a series of twelve conferences held at the Hospital Centre between June-December 1970 on the subject of services for the elderly in hospital and community. These reports have been prepared largely at the request of the conference participants who asked for a record of the ...
This paper is a collection of reports on several sessions held on specific issues and innovative projects. Topics covered include:- Old age - the age of change ; Waterloo Pensioners' Health Group; pensioners' health courses in Barnet ; collaboration in the care of confusion ; neighbours as a resource ; ...