This conference was organised by the King's Fund Centre in conjunction with the Management Support and Computers Division of the DHSS. The purpose was to present and discuss progress made in developing and applying `performance criteria' in relation to assessing effectiveness and efficiency in the NHS. The performance criteria technique ...
This information sheet provides basic information on evaluation and includes a consideration of quantitative versus qualitative data, the Hawthorne effect, reducing bias and ethical issues
In this report the authors have been concerned with the effects of reorganisation on specialist postgraduate medicine in Greater London. It draws together and comments on the various functions and activities of the postgraduate hospitals. Part 1 reviews the past and present activities of the hospitals and institutes, and Part ...
This book is about taking the drabness and regimentation out of long-term hospital care. It is not so much about attitudes as about how, in hundreds of small, practical ways, behaviour can be changed to make hospitals more human. The book is a joint effort between staff of the King's ...
The object of this paper is to serve as a basis for discussion about priorities for further studies into the working of health centres. The result of a short-term enquiry sponsored by the King's Fund, it is concerned with describing the suggestions made of areas needing further study; providing a ...
This publication contains a short essay describing the technique of cost benefit analysis as used to evaluate projects in the health service, along with a glossary and a pro-forma. They were used in a programme on cost benefit analysis held at the King's Fund College of Hospital Management in June ...
Towards the end of 1969, the Belfast Hospital Management Committee asked the King's Fund to sponsor a review of the operation of the out-patient department since the implementation of the recommendations made in a previous report in 1967. This is a copy of this report which includes a summary of ...
The topics discussed in this document are all broadly concerned with management in medicine. They include the need to plan and to evaluate the aims and achievements of the health service, consideration of problems involved, and discussion of some techniques and recent developments.
This document sets out to do three things: to make a case for the importance of systematically evaluating a carefully chosen selection of new hospital buildings and their equipment; to review critically the evaluations that have already been carried out and to describe useful methods and techniques; and to suggest ...
Criticisms of hospital food arise mainly from the effects of delay between cooking and eating. The Catering Advisory Service of king Edward's Fund has been particularly interested in studying ways and means of shortening this interval. This study on peripheral finishing kitchens is one of the possible solutions. It has ...