This briefing paper analyses the management of clinical activity in the NHS. It does so against a background of increasing concern that practices are not always as effective or efficient as is sometimes claimed. The paper considers critically the various policy options that have been put forward for tackling this ...
This paper reviews the available evidence on medical negligence and analyses the options facing policy makers. It shows that claim rates in the United Kingdom are much lower than in the United States. Differences between the two countries in legal, health care and social insurance systems mean that it is ...
This publication offers guidelines for statutory and voluntary agencies on the preconditions to and ingredients of a quality housing and care support service for physically disabled people. It presents case histories from the project research, and documents some of the innovative schemes and services that are helping disabled adults to ...
In 1986 the King's Fund, with the financial support of the DHSS, established three experimental projects in inner London to explore the possibilities for improving primary health care by developing small scale management and planning of services. One of these projects was located in Riverside HA. This report describes how ...
This report describes one way of helping health authority staff adjust not only to the prospect of major organisational change but also to significant changes in traditional ways of practice. It reports on a 2-day workshop held for the community nursing staff and their managers of one District Health Authority ...
The workshop was held to provide an opportunity for London DHA community units to discuss whether the approach to community nursing as advocated in the Cumberlege report was viable in the inner city. Health authorities were invited to send small teams of people form their community units together with a ...
The fifth King's Fund Forum was held in London on 27-29 June 1988. Five questions were addressed: 1) What are the responsibilities of service providers for patients and their carers? ; 2) For presumed stroke sufferers what has been shown to be of diagnostic value? ; 3a) What treatments have ...
Early in 1987 five health visitor managers and five district nurse managers came together from across London to explore ways of working together in the 'spirit of Cumberlege'. The focus was caring for elderly people in the community. A record was kept of the process of the workshop with a ...