In the past few years, rapid and significant changes have taken place in the social, political and policy environment in which health professionals and patients interact. This paper reports on the Patient Involvement Project, a King's Fund study that assessed changing relationships between health professionals and patients/clients in a changing ...
Primary care is the life-blood of the NHS. At the core of health care in this country are the relationships between GPs, practice nurses, therapists and their patients. What matters most for these users of health services is that they have access to professionals they can trust. Yet for many ...
The NHS Plan was launched a year and a half ago, and this edition of Health Care UK brings together views on the key health care policy issues the Plan addressed. Articles deal with: patient involvement; access to health services; delivering the NHS Plan; capacity and service delivery; public-private partnerships ...
This report provides a collection of papers and related material from the workshop discussion on 28 June 1996. It includes: a brief introduction; OHP slides used in the four presentations; examples of topic guides for focus groups from SCPR; brief notes from the round table discussions; and details of participants.
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. ...
In this booklet the author describes how the ward team introduced bedside handover to increase patient involvement in the planning and evaluation of the care they received. This series looks at some ways nurses in Nursing Development Units (NDUs) have tried to make their nursing more beneficial to patients. The ...
In this booklet the authors describe how they set up a consultative group for patients and the important part the group plays in the rehabilitation process of these elderly people. This series looks at some ways nurses in Nursing Development Units (NDUs) have tried to make their nursing more beneficial ...
In December 2006, the Department of Health issued its second 'operating framework', The NHS in England: The operating framework for 2007/08, which provides a set of rules and guidance for NHS organisations in England for the year ahead. Aimed primarily at managers and clinical staff, the operating framework for 2007/8 ...