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 ...
The first workshop began with the showing of a video "Home from home" from the Bristol Arts Project, which provoked much discussion. Questions raised included `Why do we need reviews?'; `Who benefits?'; `Who does them?' and `When are they done?' The second workshop focussed on these questions in more detail ...
These two workshops had a common theme, that of admissions policies as they affect students with disabilities. Participants in the workshops were especially invited, all having a particular interest in college admissions policies. They were mainly college principals; special advisors for students with disabilities in colleges of further education, polytechnics ...
This seminar, as part of the European W.F.M.H. programme examines relevant mental health issues by multi-international and multidisciplinary working groups. The report focuses on the working relationships of voluntary and statutory mental health services in Europe, within the broader context provided by the USA and Canada. The seminar covers the ...
The report contains three main papers read at the forum. Monica Baly spoke of how the Nightingale Fund influenced the development of nurse education. "Education and the nursing system" was the subject of Rosemary White's paper, offering a new perspective for nursing and its structure. Christopher Maggs, in his paper ...
This workshop arose from a meeting at the DHSS stimulated by Dr. Peter Pritchard in July 1980 between officers of the DHSS who were interested and involved in management and general practice, the King's Fund and Dr. Pritchard. The aim of the workshop was to identify some of those who ...
This review of the King's Fund Centre for 1981 gives information about the chief areas of interest for the Centre: library & information services, long term care, community care, education and training developments and developments in health service planning activities. Information is also given about other organisations working from the ...