This document presents the evaluation of the New Guy's House: to establish as accurately as possible the extent to which the building was fulfilling the intention of those who planned it and meeting the needs of patients and staff as a surgical block; to provide guidance to other authorities who ...
This enquiry was initiated at a time when it was realised that a number of hospital authorities were beginning to think that the addition of recovery homes might assist in the solution of the problem of providing a better hospital service. A recovery home provides accommodation for patients in whom ...
The Health Advisory Service has been operating for almost 20 years. This is the first detailed study of its effectiveness. The authors describe how the Health Advisory Service works and reflect upon what they saw and heard in their investigation. They considered three questions - how well does the Health ...
'Community Development in Health: Addressing the Confusions' was a one-day conference held at the King's Fund Centre on 13 June 1984, organised by the London Community Health Resource and the Community Health Initiatives Resource Unit, in collaboration with the King's Fund. This report is a collection of papers given during ...
Against a background of apparent official disinterest in monitoring of the NHS reforms, the King's Fund decided to make such evaluative work the focus of a major grants programme. Seven projects have been selected for financial support, each to run over a three year period, 1990-1993. The work of the ...
Government policy is driving a fundamental shift of care from hospitals to more community-based settings. There is a growing expectation that this shift will be supported by the development of a network of new facilities in which primary, community and secondary care services are co-located, often referred to as polyclinics. ...
The need to wait for health care has been a feature of the NHS since its inception. When Labour came to power in 1997, total numbers of patients waiting stood at 1.3 million: the highest since the NHS began in 1948. The government announced its 'war on waiting' and pledged ...
A high proportion of people in the criminal justice system have mental health problems, and often they do not get the support they need. Revolving Doors, a registered charity based in Clerkenwell, runs a scheme in which staff known as link workers provide practical support for people with mental health ...
The 'Working Together in London' programme was set up by the King's Fund, the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health and the Department of Health to establish assertive outreach teams and develop new ways of working that can bring about the social inclusion of people with severe and long-term mental health ...