In 2002, the King's Fund commissioned a major inquiry into the state of the capital's mental health and mental health services and how far they meet the needs of service users. The inquiry set out to: investigate whether mental health care had improved in the capital since the King's Fund ...
This paper analyses the experiences of other city-wide authorities in the UK and internationally in improving health. It sets out which cities were studied and why, outlines the different ways in which Mayors work to affect change, identifies the available evidence of action to improve health in selected cities, and ...
The Greater London Authority, which provides London with its first directly elected Mayor, has important strategic powers and responsibilities that include a duty to improve the health of Londoners. This report considers how the GLA can best contribute to health improvement and to reducing health inequalities across the capital. It ...
This pamphlet describes the whole systems approach taken by the London Health Partnership to achieve their aim of improving the well-being of older people by addressing long-standing problems of providing care and promoting health in cities. This summary was presented to the 1996 British Urban Regeneration Association Conference.
This publication arose from a King's Fund response to Sir Donald Acheson's suggestion that the time was right to consider practical policy options for tackling inequalities in health. A seminar was held at Ditchley Park in September 1993 which brought together a wide range of people, from central and local ...
From July 1992 a group of representatives from prison staff and NHS staff across London has worked together using the model of a learning network to develop a better understanding of the health needs of prisoners and to explore new ways of meeting those needs. This report: reviews the health ...
In this booklet the author describes how the team introduced a user-friendly tool for assessing the nutrition of elderly patients on their ward and a flexible health promotion programme to meet the special requirements of the patients and their carers. This series looks at some ways nurses in Nursing Development ...
This pamphlet is a report on a two-day meeting which discussed reports that, although most people in Britain seem to understand how A.I.D.S. is transmitted, they are doing little or nothing to alter their sexual behaviour in a way which could reduce their chances of becoming infected. The conference felt ...
The report was prepared by a small study group composed of individuals drawn from organisations concerned with the health and welfare of elderly people throughout the United Kingdom. Following an introductory section setting out the W.H.O. approach to health promotion the report is organised in three parts. Part one - ...