This paper is intended as a contribution to the Prime Minister's Review of the NHS. It argues that the use of incentives, competition and better management has already led to significant progress in improving efficiency, effectiveness and consumer responsiveness within the NHS. The key challenge now is to build on ...
This is the result of a postal survey which was circulated to all health authorities in 1987. The survey attempted to ask three questions: where are quality circles being used in health care; what are quality circles achieving; could a quality circle be considered to support a network in health ...
This workshop was organised to gain factual information about the prevalence and cost of pressure sores to health districts. It was hoped to identify districts where they were already monitoring this, with the aim of identifying positive ways of reducing the problem in the future. The document includes an outline ...
This second edition reflects the significant growth in quality assurance activity, and an increased willingness to share experience and expertise amongst those involved in the field. The directory covers the 192 DHAs in England, and provides comprehensive data from Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales. It includes a barchart comparing the ...
This is the third volume of King's College Studies in medical law and ethics. The following topics are covered: A.I.D.S.; contraception and family planning; human rights and the role of the judiciary in medical law; a national commission for medical ethics; defensive medicine and medical malpractice; the ethics of the ...
Despite forty years of the NHS, there are continuing geographical variations in the provision, use and outcome of health services. These variations are manifested in the greater availability of doctors and hospital beds in some areas than others; differences in the use made of these doctor and beds; and variations ...
Rising health care costs now confront policy makers and planners with serious dilemmas of choice. This publication seeks to help formulate principles by which choices can be made. It begins with the premise that health demands will outstrip available resources, but argues that this should not mean that every allocation ...
The development of a network of services and support for people with A.I.D.S. is a challenge for voluntary agencies, for the NHS and for local authorities. There is a consensus that services should, as far as possible, be provided to enable people to be cared for in their own homes. ...
Case management means a number of different ways of managing care, ranging from client advocacy on one hand, to managing services and resources on the other. These, and other issues, are explored in the context of three experimental projects supported by KEHFL. The book reviews a number of dimensions of ...