This report summarises the material produced by a workshop which was set up in response to feedback from local carers who took part in the first stage of the Carers Impact Project in Bolton. The workshop aimed to agree good practice in carer assessments and to consider ways of ensuring ...
This report is the fifth in a series of reports prepared to inform the work of the King's Fund London Commission. It emphasises the diversity of London's older people, and highlights the fact that individual requirements for well-coordinated, patient-centred care are incompatible with the complex pattern of service provision in ...
This directory has been compiled as a means of sharing some of the activities undertaken in the Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting Development Units (NDUs) which have formed part of the Nursing Developments Programme at the King's Fund. Descriptions have been included of both small and large scale work as ...
This is the fourth in a series of reports published for the London Commission by the King's Fund. It focuses attention on the question of how transforming health care in London to meet the needs of the next century can be addressed. Reviewing the experience of the last five years, ...
This paper has been prepared as a summary of the discussion at a seminar held at the King's Fund on 30th October 1996. It seeks to clarify the purpose and function of intermediate care and incorporates the range of views held in relation to a number of key issues. It ...
It is widely recognised that there is a group of people who have health care needs, which, while not requiring the facilities of the acute hospital sector, do demand considerable support to regain a maximum level of health. A number of different initiatives have been explored to meet this diverse ...
This is a paper informing the work of the King's Fund London Commission. Its purpose is to describe the range of services that may be usefully categorised as intermediate care, devise a typology or taxonomy of these services, report on the extent and quality of literature on intermediate care, present ...
As part of their work for North Thames Research and Development, the King's Fund collected data on all Betaferon users from December 1995 to September 1996 in the North Thames region. They also organised discussion groups with 24 potential or actual users of the drug. The report looks at who ...