This debate is the second of a series organised by the King's Fund. It took place at a time when the NHS stood accused of withdrawing from long-term care, and public concern was running high about the growth of means-tested services previously provided free under the NHS. People from different ...
The aim of this booklet is to describe how the concepts of self-care are applied to nursing practice. It is based on a consensus reached by a group of nurses, all expert practitioners of self-care, who attended a collaborative conference in March 1994 to consider two questions: what is self-care; ...
The author reports on a workshop addressing future clinical staffing in different trust settings: the general acute hospital trust; the combined acute and community trust; the community/priority services health care trust; and the teaching hospital trust.
When disabled people take the lead in evaluating community care, they produce valuable insights into service effectiveness and creative suggestions for improving services. Real changes result when community care agencies listen to and act on disabled people's assessment of services on offer. This publication discusses the benefits and practicalities of ...
Early in 1995 the Patient Empowerment Focus Group of the NHS Executive commissioned the King's Fund Centre to run a workshop on patient empowerment. The seminar was designed to meet three objectives: to develop a working definition of what is meant by patient empowerment; to identify probable component parts of ...
The purpose of this workshop was to provide the NHS Executive Patients Charter Unit with material and ideas for a leaflet on children's services. Services for children in hospital and in the community were discussed. It was recommended that the format of the charter should be accessible to parents and ...
Better Futures was a two year project which focussed on improving the quality of life of people with serious and long-term mental health problems. During the period 1992-94 the King's Fund Centre funded a programme of development work in five localities in England and Wales: Clwyd, Leeds, Salford, Swindon and ...
This is the third publication in a series based on the work of the King's Fund Nursing Development Units. Using interviews with staff, this book offers examples from five different units of the way in which patients and clients have become actively involved in delivery of care and service developments. ...
Nuclear medicine is a medical specialty that uses tiny quantities of radioactivity to produce diagnostic images. It also has a role in therapy for some thyroid diseases and certain tumours. Surveys have shown that nuclear medicine procedures are used significantly less in the United Kingdom than in many other countries ...