The King's Fund has come together in a consortium with the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health and the Department of Health to establish the 'Working Together in London initiative. This will commit £2 million in the years 1998-2000 to improve the integration of services for people with severe mental health ...
This paper tells the story of the first two years (1994-96) of the London Health Partnership's primary care development programme. It describes the background to the project and its guiding principles, and then goes on to describe the diagnostic phase of its work and how systems theories influenced the ongoing ...
The aim of this monograph is to promote urgent and informed debate on the measurement and implementation of quality in general practice. Its central theme is that the widely differing perspectives of those who plan, fund, deliver, receive, record and administer care may each be valid in particular contexts, and ...
Policy changes in health and social care present new opportunities for primary care to work in partnership with others to improve provision for people with mental health problems. Policy connections between mental health services, primary and community care were not always made effectively in the past and attention to implementation ...
The aim of this work is to support primary care groups (PCGs) in developing primary care in London. It is directed at all those involved in primary care development , including members of PCGs, trusts and health authorities. Primary care development is taken here to mean the constellation of ideas, ...
This report has been prepared to inform the development of the Government's proposed 'Long Term Care Charter'. The findings are based on an analysis of focus group discussions held in three different parts of the country involving service users, carers and front-line staff with experiences of health, housing and social ...
This report is drawn from two seminars attended by frontline practitioners and others working in health, housing and social care held at the King's Fund in February and April 1999. Participants discussed their views of current treatment, care and support of older people, and what they would want for their ...
Practical experience gained by those involved in the 16 P.A.C.E. projects and the emerging research evidence about changing clinical practice and developing organisations provide the basis for this report. It draws together the essential attributes of the successful management of implementation initiatives. The experience of the project has confirmed that ...