This research was carried out at the request of the Northern Ireland Health and Social Services department to complement the work undertaken by the King's Fund for the NHS Executive on the English Patient's Charter. The aims were to establish whether patients, carers and staff views and experiences of the ...
This is a review of intensive care and high dependency care at Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust, which followed on from a trust-wide organisational review carried out in the previous year.
This bulletin is based on ideas developed from two seminars for professions allied to medicine (PAMs) organised by the King's Fund in order to discuss their actual and potential contribution to public health. This bulletin covers the subject areas of what PAMs do in relation to public health, health promotion, ...
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 ...
In September and October 1997, the King's Fund held two seminars for the professions allied to medicine (PAMs) in order to discuss their actual and potential contribution to public health. This contribution is varied and spans the categories of input to commissioning, health promotion, clinical effectiveness and evidence-based practice, and ...
These comments on the Green Paper on public health, 'Our Healthier Nation', reflect the views of a group of individuals from a wide range of local and national agencies with a role to play in implementing the national public health strategy. These views were expressed during three seminars jointly organised ...
While most GP practices participating in total purchasing have some experience of contracting with health care providers, the extension of their responsibilities has, in many cases, taken them into entirely new areas and posed a set of challenges for primary care-based purchasing. This paper concentrates on a central element of ...
This report describes the planning, implementation and outcomes of a process for involving local citizens and users and their organisations in informing the NHS Confederation's conference 'All Our Tomorrows' in July 1998, to celebrate 50 years of the NHS. The King's Fund was invited to contribute to the design and ...