This debate is the second of a series organised by the King's Fund. It took place at a time when the NHS stood accused of withdrawing from long-term care, and public concern was running high about the growth of means-tested services previously provided free under the NHS. People from different ...
Early in 1995 the Patient Empowerment Focus Group of the NHS Executive commissioned the King's Fund Centre to run a workshop on patient empowerment. The seminar was designed to meet three objectives: to develop a working definition of what is meant by patient empowerment; to identify probable component parts of ...
The purpose of this workshop was to provide the NHS Executive Patients Charter Unit with material and ideas for a leaflet on children's services. Services for children in hospital and in the community were discussed. It was recommended that the format of the charter should be accessible to parents and ...
This publication aims to provide a quick guide to improving disability services for senior managers in health and social services who may have overall responsibility for services for adults with physical or sensory impairments yet not have a detailed involvement at an operational level. The guide is written primarily for ...
This is the second edition of this publication which was published for the first time in 1994. This edition is structured in four parts. The first is a calendar of events in London's health care during 1994, followed by a commentary by the editor. The third section presents the relevant ...
This document builds on work carried out by a group of blind and partially sighted people who were invited to identify the issues which they considered to be most important in shaping their experiences of community care. These issues include access to information, assessment for entitlement to services, inflexibility and ...
This is a summary of the first workshop in the King's Fund Purchasing Innovations series. The workshop heard from three main contributors on experience to date in their authorities: Durham; Wiltshire and Bath; and Birmingham.
This is a summary of a workshop in a continuing series of short events designed to explore the development of collaborative commissioning in the light of evolving local experience. Participation was drawn from the five sites involved in the King's Fund Centre's Joint Commissioning project, eight other health and local ...
This is a summary of a workshop in a continuing series of short events designed to explore the development of collaborative commissioning in the light of evolving local experience. Participation was drawn from the five sites involved in the King's Fund Centre's Joint Commissioning project, eight other health and local ...