Index Catalog // The King's Fund Digital Archive

Author:: Harries, John, Department of Social Medicine (Hadassah School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Hadassah Medical Organisation and Hebrew University, Jerusalem), Gillam, Steve, McClenahan, John, Epstein, Leon, King Edward's Hospital Fund for London, and Plamping, Diane
Publication date:: 1994
Abstract:: Reorientating the NHS to be both needs led and responsive to users has to be a joint endeavour for both commissioners and providers. A new synthesis is required to combine the best of personal patient care with a focus on population health. The King's Fund has recognised community oriented primary ...

Author:: Promoting Action on Clinical Effectiveness (P.A.C.E.) (Development Centre, King's Fund), Gillam, Steve, Gilbert, David, Dunning, Michael, Livett, Hayley, and Abi-Aad, Gerard
Publication date:: 1997
Abstract:: Since the early 1990s there has been a growing interest in using the results of research to improve health and health services. This work has been taken forward under titles such as evidence-based practice, clinical effectiveness and implementation of research findings. This report explains lessons learned from the King's Fund ...

Author:: Gillam, Steve, Levenson, Ros, and King's Fund
Publication date:: 1998
Abstract:: This paper examines what is known about linkworkers, using information derived from a review of the literature and from interviews with those working in the field. It discusses how linkworkers might make a contribution to primary care in the future, and considers some of the organisational issues that will need ...

Author:: Arora, Shona, Gillam, Steve, and King's Fund
Publication date:: 1999
Abstract:: The White Paper "The new NHS" set out the Government's health policy for the next ten years. All general practices in England are to belong to a Primary Care Group (PCG), whose core functions will be to: improve the health of their community and reduce inequalities; commission a range of ...

Author:: Malbon, Gill, Morley, Virginia, Gillam, Steve, King's Fund, Lewis, Richard, Florin, Dominique, and Arora, Shona
Publication date:: 1999
Abstract:: 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, ...

Author:: Gillam, Steve, King's Fund, Lewis, Richard, and Jenkins, Clare
Publication date:: 1999
Abstract:: 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 ...

Author:: Malbon, Gill, Gillam, Steve, King's Fund, and Jenkins, Clare
Publication date:: 1999
Abstract:: 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 ...

Author:: Arora, Shona, Gillam, Steve, King's Fund, Coker, Naaz, and Ismail, Hanif
Publication date:: 2000
Abstract:: 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 ...

Author:: Gillam, Steve, King's Fund, Lewis, Richard, and Jenkins, Clare
Publication date:: 2001
Abstract:: 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, ...

Author:: Gillam, Steve, King's Fund, Lewis, Richard, and Jenkins, Clare
Publication date:: 2001
Abstract:: 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 ...

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