A workshop was held at the King's Fund Centre on 3 November 1993 in which physiotherapists experienced in the treatment of neurological conditions took part to investigate the effectiveness of physiotherapy for people disabled by stroke. This report provides details of the topics discussed, and reviews the key components related ...
This document is the review of services to adults with mental ill health and people with learning difficulties commissioned from the King's Fund College by Hillingdon Health Agency.
This workbook outlining the ENQUIRE system is intended to be a practical guide to establishing and running quality assurance programmes for health and social care. The workbook is based on a number of conceptual tools, which provide both a framework for quality assurance, and assistance in appreciating its full potential. ...
East Birmingham Hospital's first user forum was organised as part of a project to develop a patient-centred approach in the outpatient department. The assistant unit general manager (patient services and planning) was also interested in piloting the method as a way of obtaining the views of service users, and so ...
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 ...
The primary aim of this workbook is to provide managers, front-line workers, external and internal 'inspectors', informal carers and service users, with a shared framework for consultation and evaluation of the quality of services. It is predominantly concerned with community care; however, it has applications in acute and community services ...
In this book, top clinicians and senior managers in health services from the UK, the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand write about their experiences in solving difficult problems in a way that ensures that their organisations continue to strive towards quality services. They describe how they try to resolve ...
Decisions on education for health currently take place against a background of conflicting policy and practice. So to clarify some of the main issues, this review sets out to identify trends in policy and practice in Britain in recent years, to summarise the evidence on effectiveness on some of the ...
The primary purpose of this report is to draw on the literature on joint planning focusing on practice in England and Wales with a view to identifying potentially useful lessons which might be of value in a Scottish context. The report is in five sections. Section One provides a general ...
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 ...