A major policy concern for the NHS is how to deal with the increase in emergency hospital admissions widely observed in the 1990s. This paper presents a systems approach to understanding the way in which unpredictable events are dealt with by health care services. It does this by developing a ...
This report is a review of the evaluation of the London Initiative Zone (L.I.Z.) primary care development projects which were established through the former London Implementation Group (LIG) and which were in progress in 1995/6. It particularly focuses on the evaluation of revenue projects aimed at service development in primary ...
This report provides a comprehensive review of the health and health care of the population of London, based on a variety of published and unpublished data sources. The report considers London in three ways: first, by providing comparisons between different parts of the capital; second, by comparing areas of London ...
The imbalance in London between primary health care and hospital services has long been recognised. Attempts are now being made to address this issue by strengthening community-based services. This paper quantifies the nature of the challenge facing primary health care in the capital relative to the rest of the country. ...
London occupies a unique position in the provision of acute health care in Britain, in terms of resources consumed, the quantity of care provided and the institutional framework within which service provision takes place. It is a commonly held belief that London has more than its fair share of health ...
An important component of the 1997 King's Fund report on mental health services in London was to analyse the costs of service provision. Over the six years since 1997, there have been some major policy and practice developments in the provision of mental health services in the UK, particularly the ...
This report brings together the findings and conclusions from three strands of research that addressed different aspects of the main research topic, which is the identification of successful strategies for sustaining reductions in waiting times. They are: identifying successful strategies for sustaining reductions in waiting times; the impact of waiting ...