The concept of advocacy has been slow in gaining acceptance in the UK. An account of the work of Advocacy Alliance is provided here by Bob Sang, its first co-ordinator, who examines all the barriers (both attitudinal and structural) that are placed in the way of any organisation seeking such ...
This conference was one of a series of meetings Save the Children held to mark the publication of a report on the health of Traveller mothers and children in East Anglia. The conference was designed to give participants an overview of issues about Travellers' health, their difficulties with the health ...
Judy Heumann is currently with the World Institute on Disability, a US policy organisation which works on both national and international issues. During November 1983, she was in England to meet disabled people in Hampshire, Manchester, Nottingham and London, where Centres for Independent Living are being developed. This is a ...
The conference sought to discuss, in the broadest terms, what the definition, function, purpose and relationship of primary health care should be in the future. The conference was held within the context of 'Health for All by the Year 2000' as resolved by the World Health Assembly in 1977. One ...
Papers from a King's Fund international seminar. The contributors work in the health services in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom and the United States. The book deals with three important aspects of working with people in the context of health service administration. The first is that of trying to ...
In the USA, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals, (JCAH) has for many years been engaged in defining and promoting standards of good practice in health care. In 1981, a small multi-disciplinary team from the UK supported by a King's Fund grant visited the JCAH in Chicago and took ...
This seminar described the present organisation of infection control in the UK within the hospital and its links with the community. The role and responsibilities of the infection control nurse, infection control officer and other members of the infection control team were discussed with particular reference to relationships and co-operation. ...
This study compares the American experience of both nurse practitioners and physician's assistant with that of Britain. The study traces their professional development alongside that of traditional medicine and nursing and reviews the literature and relevant legislation. The author describes his observations of the work and training of the different ...
This book is a collection of papers given at a conference which examined what the role of senior administrators in the health field should be. The following four questions were addressed by the speakers. Does the senior health administrator have a role as either innovator or catalyst in 1) the ...
The International Seminar of Nurses held at the King's Fund College in July 1976 was the third in the series. The question of leadership and the emergence of leaders is of paramount importance to the nursing profession in the three countries represented, Canada, United Kingdom and United States of America. ...