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Créateur:: Organisational Audit Programme (King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development, King Edward's Hospital Fund for London), Lowe, Elizabeth, Wessex Regional Health Authority, and Brooks, Tessa
Publication date:: 1991
Abstract:: This document summarises the main points which emerged from an exercise undertaken to establish the extent of work taking place in the area of contract specifications. Three regional health authorities (Trent, East Anglia and Wessex) and selected districts outside these regions with acknowledged track records in quality were targeted for ...

Créateur:: Equal Opportunities Task Force (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1990
Abstract:: This paper presents the results of a Task Force survey of the health authority members, and the efforts which have been made by the health service to include black and ethnic minority communities in membership. The report includes information about the responsibilities of health authorities, the duties of members, appointment ...

Créateur:: Upward, Janet, Cousins, Jennifer, King Edward's Hospital Fund for London, and Wright, Anthony
Publication date:: 1988
Abstract:: The aim of this project was to discover whether the needs of people whose relatives die in hospital are being met within that setting. Surveys were undertaken to gain the views of both sides, by seeking both the experiences of bereaved relatives, and by ascertaining the procedures and practices of ...

Créateur:: Posner, Tina, Vessey, Martin, and King Edward's Hospital Fund for London
Publication date:: 1988
Abstract:: This book is based on the first research study to look at the impact on women of a positive cervical smear and subsequent investigation and treatment. It follows their experiences from the initial discovery through to outpatient treatment or inpatient surgery. The authors describe the thoughts and feelings women have ...

Créateur:: Judge, Ken, Price, Sarah, Hunter, David J., and King's Fund Institute (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1988
Abstract:: In order to gauge the reactions to the Griffiths proposals on community care, the King's Fund Institute sampled opinion across health and social services in the UK by conducting a survey of health and social services managers and a scan of principal practitioner journals. The review of reaction demonstrates a ...

Créateur:: King's Fund Institute (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London), Harvey, Sarah, and Judge, Ken
Publication date:: 1988
Abstract:: The King's Fund Institute was invited by the Acheson Committee to conduct a survey of community physicians in English health authorities. This report first gives an outline of the history of the specialty of community medicine. The methodology of the survey is then described, followed by a presentation of the ...

Créateur:: King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1988
Abstract:: This is the result of a postal survey which was circulated to all health authorities in 1987. The survey attempted to ask three questions: where are quality circles being used in health care; what are quality circles achieving; could a quality circle be considered to support a network in health ...

Créateur:: Rothman, Arthur, Wakeford, Richard, Roden, Marian, and King Edward's Hospital Fund for London
Publication date:: 1986
Abstract:: At whatever age general practitioners retire, whether early, late, or at what is regarded as the conventional time (65), this is likely to have substantial implications for manpower planning - in the UK for example in connection with the demand for and establishment of vocational training schemes. A study of ...

Créateur:: King's Fund Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London) and Shaw, Charles D.
Publication date:: 1986
Abstract:: The Quality Assurance Project was set up at the end of 1984 to stimulate the assessment and promotion of quality in health care in Britain. This report presents the findings of a survey undertaken to identify what practical steps were being taken by individual professional organisations (colleges) and to make ...

Créateur:: Hutt, Avis, Smith, James, and King's Fund Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1986
Abstract:: This publication consists of the collated information of a survey undertaken in the autumn of 1985 by the Long Term and Community Care Team at the King's Fund Centre. All NHS district general managers in the UK were contacted, to find out about innovations in services for the elderly during ...

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