This publication gives the participants, programme and notes for this event. It looks at four different scenarios for London in 2010, and the effects on health care of each.
These guidelines have been compiled in response to an assessed need from hospitals for help with commissioning arts and artists. It is divided into seven chapters and includes guidance on the need for a committee; choosing a site; the commissioning process; fundraising. Its recommendations are based on 10 years of ...
The 24 papers presented at two conferences in May and June 1988 organised by the KFC, London Boroughs Training Committee, Terrence Higgins Trust and Frontliners. The book represents individual viewpoints from 24 people who organise, provide or receive care. The book contains sections on the shift towards care in the ...
In June 1987 the King's Fund convened the first meeting of a working party on the future shape of paediatric surgery in the four Thames regions, with special reference to Greater London. The working party was composed primarily of paediatric surgeons. This document is their report. The emphasis is on ...
Early in 1987 five health visitor managers and five district nurse managers came together from across London to explore ways of working together in the 'spirit of Cumberlege'. The focus was caring for elderly people in the community. A record was kept of the process of the workshop with a ...
In response to the DHSS circular `Patients dying in hospital' (DA(84)17) the Bloomsbury District Management Team asked for an examination of the way that dying patients and their relatives are cared for in Bloomsbury hospitals. This paper arises out of that examination and also out of discussions with nurses, doctors ...
It is customary for the Fund's General Council to invite two speakers to talk about aspects of the Fund's work at its general meeting. On 6 June 1986, the first meeting to be held under the Presidency of HRH The Prince of Wales, the subject was the Fund itself. This ...
This report was commissioned from the King's Fund by the chairman of the twelve District Health Authorities. It was felt that there was a lack of a factual basis against which to assess the London-wide implications of the plans of the four Thames Regional Health Authorities. This report, which is ...
This conference was organised by the London Strategic Policy Unit and held on 8 April 1987. Workers from health services, local authorities and voluntary bodies met to exchange ideas and compare experience of providing services for A.I.D.S. patients. A paper was presented by the director of supportive housing from the ...
This history begins with the foundation of the Lancet in 1823, and ends in 1982 with the restructuring of the National Health Service, when the management of hospitals in isolation from other health services had ceased. The opening chapters consider the endowed and voluntary hospitals, the poor law infirmaries and ...