This document contains copies of material produced at a Living Options Partnership meeting in Derby on 24 January 1995. The subjects under discussion were the definitions of evaluation and monitoring, and the spectrum of user involvement in the evaluation process.
The information exchange is produced particularly for supporters and advisers of self-advocacy groups and people with responsibility for developing effective ways of working in partnership with users in planning and delivering services. This issue looks at consulting users about community care plans, with examples from groups throughout England.
This document builds on work carried out by a group of blind and partially sighted people who were invited to identify the issues which they considered to be most important in shaping their experiences of community care. These issues include access to information, assessment for entitlement to services, inflexibility and ...
This report was prepared in response to a request from Health Partners International Ltd. It looks at hospital management in seven countries with differing health care systems in order to inform the South African Hospital Strategy Project.
This Review is based on the financial year 1994 to 1995. The first part examines the events of the year in four key policy areas: creating the new NHS ; promoting community care ; promoting public health ; promoting the interests of users. The second part of the work looks ...
This workshop explored the approaches developed by five NHS general practices who are learning from their patients and communities to develop resources which provide new health creating options. Human considerations are kept to the fore, teamwork and an active partnership with patients are encouraged and a wide range of integrated ...
This debate is the first of a series organised by the King's Fund. The question posed was: would ill or disabled people and their carers be better off with a community care system guaranteeing them rights to services. The debate was opened by Nasa Begum who argued that elderly and ...
The conference examined cancer as a genetic disease and presented papers on recent genetic research and gene therapy. The implications of the `new genetics' from an ethical, legal and insurance point of view were considered. The conference also explored the implications of recent developments in genetic research for general practice ...
The King's Fund Centre has been in the forefront of developments to change the way in which support is offered to carers. In practice this has meant developing work programmes in different localities around the country to analyse, test and make improvements to the planning and delivery of services for ...
This is a report on a competition held in 1993 by the King's Fund to find excellent examples of large hospital developments which were opened in Britain between 1980 and 1990. The aims for both National Health Service and independent sector hospitals were: to offer a high quality of life ...