Section one of this report deals with consumer involvement in the NHS. It covers the areas of complaints procedures, the role of community health councils, the voluntary contribution to the NHS, the Wolfenden Report and patient participation in general practice. The second section concentrates on community health councils (CHCs), presenting ...
The first section of this paper examines the need and demand for dental health. It discusses how treatment is provided in the United Kingdom and how the National Health Service is meeting the need. Objectives of dental health services are defined and positive steps towards their attainment suggested. The latter ...
This study complements a wide variety of material made available to the Royal Commission on manpower planning in the NHS. The first paper, by Alan Williams, is a consideration of some of the manpower problems facing the Commission within a general theoretical context. The second, by the secretariat, describes existing ...
In evidence to the Royal Commission, a frequent complaint was that the reorganised structure with its principle of consensus management had led to massive delays in decision-making. Previous studies have examined the process of decision-making through interviews with a sample of NHS staff. The paper reproduced here explores the feasibility ...
In June 1979, the King's Fund arranged a two-day seminar for nurse managers to consider the Thwaites Report "The Education and Training of Senior Managers in the National Health Service." Following the seminar, a group of senior nurse managers and educators with a responsibility for management training met regularly at ...
The purpose of the conference was to discuss the report of the King's Fund Working Party on The Organisation of Hospital Clinical Work (KF Project paper no. 22). Discussion centred on the main recommendation that medical work should be performed by fully-trained doctors. The implications were: a reduction in the ...
This seminar had been arranged with a view to discussing the importance of taking capital costs into account in a specialty budgeting system, and if their inclusion was thought necessary, to consider how such costs should be represented. This topic appeared to have been given little consideration previously and therefore ...
In July 1978, the King's Fund held a conference to discuss the report Education and Training of Senior Managers in the National Health Service, commonly referred to the Thwaites report after the chairman of the working party. This publication is not just an account of the conference, but a personal ...
This book aims to stimulate discussion and action about the serious difficulties facing the NHS in industrial relations. It aims to help the development of more effective industrial relations which the NHS badly needs and looks at how improvements might be made realistically within the current framework of management. Chapters ...