This publication consists of organisational standards and criteria for primary health care service providers which have been revised to reflect changes in general practice since the previous edition of this publication in 1994.
This manual contains organisational standards for primary health care commissioning. It forms one part of the King's Fund Organisational Audit project for health authorities and primary health care commissioners. The standards apply to all primary care commissioning organisations, whether these are GP fundholding practices, multi funds or non-fundholding practices that ...
This manual has been produced to meet the demand for the development of standards and a peer review process for commissioning organisations. It provides an organisation with the means to question practice and to stimulate development work. It has been introduced at a time when health authorities and family health ...
The health service reforms of the 1990s have put special emphasis on making services more sensitive and responsive to users. This report looks at the work of four health authorities which have a history of activity on race issues and where there is a clear commitment to improving their services ...
This publication provides guidance for managers in regional and purchasing authorities and in provider units on how to improve NHS services provided to people from black populations. It should also be a basis on which community organisations and users' groups can evaluate race equality initiatives in local service provision. Managers ...
This book describes in detail the routine administrative tasks that have to be done in hospital after a patient dies and suggests systems which will ensure that the tasks are carried out efficiently. It lays down clear standards for bereavement officers and hospital staff to enable them to provide the ...
This document reviews some elements of health services which have been or may be the subject of standards and some characteristics of the standards themselves.
In this publication the author states:- A new approach is needed for agenda-setting in primary health care. It should draw on the public health and participatory model espoused by W.H.O.; build on the experiences of local projects and initiatives, and seek to create planning and management structures which achieve change ...
The publication of "Primary health care: an agenda for discussion" was welcomed by the London Project Executive Committee of the King's Fund as an opportunity to contribute to the debate on the future of primary health care. In order to prepare a response which would contain practical recommendations for improving ...
This report, by a Brunel team led by Professor Maurice Kogan, was commissioned by the King's Fund at the request of the Department of Health and financed by the Department. It describes the Management Advisory Service in the Oxford and South Western regions, and Performance Review in Wessex, in the ...