In this document the Task Force give advice for the selection of hospital medical staff which promotes equal opportunities or prevents considerable discrimination against black and ethnic minority doctors.
This booklet is published for S.O.P.H.I.E. (Society of Parents Helping in Education) by the King's Fund. It accompanies a video `Shared Concern' which tackles the difficulties doctors experience when they face the task of informing parents that their baby or young child has a disability. S.O.P.H.I.E. believes this video and ...
Since 1948, doctors have had a powerful influence on national and local health policies. They have not, however, always had a happy relationship with the administration that had to implement the policies. Recently the argument for cost effective management, rather than just efficient administrators, in the NHS has been greatly ...
This conference was arranged by the King's Fund Centre to promote informed debate about the report of the Social Services Committee of the House of Commons on Medical Education, and the Governments response published in its White Paper in February 1982. Reactions to the proposal for change were debated and ...
This document includes six papers presented at the seminar. The papers look at the relationship between consultants and general practitioners; the collection of data within community services; community psychiatry; and the education of general practitioners.
This survey of employee opinion was an innovation in the hospital field and so it is hoped that it will be of interest to a wider audience than just the London Hospital Group as some of the results have implications of more general interest. A small number of results from ...
This project paper is the result of a series of small informal meetings held at the King's Fund Centre during 1971-73 to consider various aspects of the care of children in hospital and, in particular, to discuss ways of meeting the emotional needs of the child in the ward. The ...
This report is the outcome of an enquiry into the subject of relationships between GPs and hospitals. Its object is to draw attention to the problem of communication between hospitals and general practitioners and make any recommendations which seem indicated.
This is a report of a conference which was held on Tuesday 28 February 1967 and attended by approximately 100 people, the majority of whom were doctors, nurses and pharmacists. The doctor's view about inpatient medication was concerned with problems arising from prescribing systems in hospitals. It was suggested that ...
This report recommends that cooperation between hospital doctors and general practitioners should be facilitated by the adoption of standard forms for doctor's letters and hospital replies. The report also suggests that the use of the standard forms might afford an opportunity of drawing attention to the importance of patients being ...