Index Catalog // The King's Fund Digital Archive

Author:: Henwood, Melanie and King's Fund
Publication date:: 2001
Abstract:: This inquiry concludes that care and support for older and disabled people could collapse unless the Government allocates at least £700 million extra to social services each year. It shows that Britain's estimated one million care and support workers exist on low pay, with poor training, inadequate support from their ...

Author:: Community Care Group (King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development, King Edward's Hospital Fund for London), Community Care Division (Nuffield Institute for Health, University of Leeds), and Henwood, Melanie
Publication date:: 1995
Abstract:: This paper reports on the second and final phase of a joint King's Fund Centre and Nuffield Institute for Health initiative on monitoring community care implementation. It provides an independent account of progress in implementing the community care changes which is based on sampling the experience and perceptions of a ...

Author:: Community Care Group (King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development, King Edward's Hospital Fund for London), Henwood, Melanie, and Community Care Division (Nuffield Institute for Health, University of Leeds)
Publication date:: 1994
Abstract:: This paper reports on the first phase of a joint King's Fund Centre and Nuffield Institute initiative on monitoring community care implementation. It provides the first independent account of progress in implementing the community care changes which is based on sampling a vertical cross section of stakeholders in a range ...

Author:: King's Fund Institute (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London) and Henwood, Melanie
Publication date:: 1992
Abstract:: The care of elderly people is a matter of both increasing urgency and major uncertainty. Community care policies have come under increasing scrutiny over the past decade, and three factors have been particularly influential: an awareness of an ageing population, allied with other demographic and social changes that are likely ...

Author:: Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Henwood, Melanie, Nuffield Institute for Health Services Studies (University of Leeds), Wistow, Gerald, King's Fund Institute (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London), and Jowell, Tessa
Publication date:: 1991
Abstract:: The phasing in of the National Health Service reforms over two years from April 1991 to 1993 has a number of implications. The uncertain climate which has long surrounded community care will be protracted, and financial pressures will increase as the demand driven social security budget continues to rise. The ...

Author:: King's Fund and Henwood, Melanie
Publication date:: 2001
Abstract:: This summary contains the findings, conclusions and recommendations of the King's Fund Care and Support Inquiry into the quality of services for people needing care and support. The inquiry was commissioned to examine whether the government's reforms of care service regulation would produce meaningful results and to explore which additional ...

Author:: The King's Fund and Henwood, Melanie
Publication date:: 2006
Abstract:: Part of the appendices to the Wanless Social Care Review, Securing good care for older people.

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