This is a report of a workshop held at the King's Fund Centre on 26th November, 1981. As part of the King's Fund continuing concern with developing health services in London, this workshop was organised to provide a forum for health service personnel and anthropologists interested in city-centre problems to ...
This conference was organised by the King's Fund to provide a forum for discussion about the implications for service planning in the National Health Service of the proposals outlined in the DHSS consultative paper HN(81)4. The topic was discussed under the following headings: new policies: old problems; health service planning ...
The seminars aimed to explore the interests and concerns of the new district health authority chairmen. The main topics covered were establishing the district health authority as an effective body; the appointment of chief officers and the setting up of the management structure; activities before the 1982 restructuring; organisation and ...
This series of study days was organised by the King's Fund Centre with help and advice from the DHSS and the Centre for Policy on Ageing. It provided an opportunity for members of staff who are responsible for the inspection and registration of homes and the officers in charge of ...
This conference was organised by the King's Fund Centre in conjunction with the Management Support and Computers Division of the DHSS. The purpose was to present and discuss progress made in developing and applying `performance criteria' in relation to assessing effectiveness and efficiency in the NHS. The performance criteria technique ...
The purpose of this Annual Review is to look back over the past twelve months as well as to look forward to the next year or so and try and identify how best the Centre can respond to the very rapid changes that are being made in the way health ...
In 1976, the Jubilee Project was established by the King's Fund to commemorate Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth's Silver Jubilee by upgrading wards in ten of London's older hospitals. Many of London's district general hospitals had not been rebuilt as had been planned in the early 1960s, and little renovation had ...
This report explores a number of issues concerning the relationship between education and employment; changing views on employment and work in view of present unemployment trends; integration compared with the use of specialist provision, and special inputs to support integration on ordinary courses. The report includes individual case studies, lists ...