In the past few years, rapid and significant changes have taken place in the social, political and policy environment in which health professionals and patients interact. This paper reports on the Patient Involvement Project, a King's Fund study that assessed changing relationships between health professionals and patients/clients in a changing ...
This publication summarises the King's Fund Community Pharmacy Programme. It has three components: extending local contracting to community pharmacy; the developmental needs of community pharmacists in North East London; and the role of pharmacists in demand management. The programme outputs will include a conference, publications, a stakeholder event in North ...
The King's Fund has been working with the SWLPCO for three years as part of an evaluation of four PMS pilots in London. Using a variety of research methods, including in-depth interviews and a focus group with key stakeholders, a patient satisfaction questionnaire, an audit of chronic disease management and ...
The King's Fund has been working with the North Hillingdon PMS pilot for three years as part of an evaluation of four PMS pilots in London. Using a variety of research methods, including in-depth interviews, a patient satisfaction questionnaire, an audit of chronic disease management and a practice profile questionnaire, ...
The King's Fund has been working with the Isleworth Centre Practice for three years as part of an evaluation of four PMS pilots in London. Using a variety of research methods, including in-depth interviews and a focus group with key stakeholders, a patient satisfaction questionnaire, a registration questionnaire, an audit ...
The King's Fund has been working with the Edith Cavell Practice for three years as part of an evaluation of four PMS pilots in London. Using a variety of research methods, including in-depth interviews and a focus group with key stakeholders, a patient satisfaction questionnaire and a practice profile questionnaire, ...
This guide is mainly aimed at PCG/T boards as they attempt to address the core government objectives of reducing inequalities and tackling racism. It should particularly benefit those with small ethnic populations, although those PCG/Ts with large ethnic populations, where there has been a history of attempting to meet local ...
This publication is a summary of the full report of the same name. The1990s has seen fundamental changes in the field of primary care. Amidst the recent flood of white papers and ministerial announcements, the King's Fund and the Evening Standard set out to find what Londoners think of the ...
The NHS (Primary Care) Act 1997 made possible local contracts for general practice services and spawned Personal Medical Services (PMS) pilots. These are intended to make primary care services more sensitive to local needs and are therefore particularly useful in London where long-term infrastructural problems have proved intractable. The King's ...
The aim of this work is to support primary care groups (PCGs) in developing primary care in London. It is directed at all those involved in primary care development , including members of PCGs, trusts and health authorities. Primary care development is taken here to mean the constellation of ideas, ...