This document is intended to take further the diagnostic and analytical work which was produced by the King's Fund Mental Health Support Group for the London Commission. An executive summary of that report is attached to this paper.
The National Health Service in London faces profound challenges. Currently, services are under intense strain. Access to appropriate care for Londoners is jeopardised, and public confidence has declined. In inner London, in particular, there are high levels of deprivation and growing health inequalities. While some of the country's leading hospitals ...
The National Health Service in London faces profound challenges. Currently, services are under intense strain. Access to appropriate care for Londoners is jeopardised, and public confidence has declined. In inner London, in particular, there are high levels of deprivation and growing health inequalities. While some of the country's leading hospitals ...
This publication comprises 10 papers on mental health service provision in a different city. They were presented at the King's Fund's Mental Health in the City conference, held in London on 27-29 October 1997. The cities are as follows: Amsterdam, Baltimore, Bangalore, Copenhagen, Kobe, Madison (Wisconsin), Porto Alegre (Brazil), Sydney, ...
The publication of this manual of organisational standards is a major milestone for King's Fund Organisational Audit (KFOA) in that it brings together standards for acute hospitals, and the newly developed standards for community, learning disabilities and mental health services. This reflects the changing nature of health care organisations and ...
The underlying assumptions of this book are that: partnerships are an essential component for developing alternative mental health services for black people; task-focused and process-focused approaches to achieve set outcomes are an inherent part of working in partnerships; and guidance is needed to help groups, agencies and organisations identify the ...
This is the third edition of this publication which was published for the first time in 1994. This edition is structured in three parts. The first is a calendar of events in London's health care during 1995, followed by a commentary by the editor. The second section presents the relevant ...
Better Futures was a two year project which focussed on improving the quality of life of people with serious and long-term mental health problems. During the period 1992-94 the King's Fund Centre funded a programme of development work in five localities in England and Wales: Clwyd, Leeds, Salford, Swindon and ...
This is the third publication in a series based on the work of the King's Fund Nursing Development Units. Using interviews with staff, this book offers examples from five different units of the way in which patients and clients have become actively involved in delivery of care and service developments. ...
This review of mental health services was commissioned by Ealing Hammersmith & Hounslow HA. It was limited to psychiatric services for adults aged 19-65 years and excluded specialist child and adolescent, drug, alcohol, HIV and psychotherapy services.