Index Catalog // The King's Fund Digital Archive

Author:: King's Fund
Publication date:: 1995
Abstract:: This report was prepared in response to a request from Health Partners International Ltd. It looks at hospital management in seven countries with differing health care systems in order to inform the South African Hospital Strategy Project.

Author:: Imison, Candace, King's Fund, Naylor, Chris, and Maybin, Jo
Publication date:: 2008
Abstract:: Government policy is driving a fundamental shift of care from hospitals to more community-based settings. There is a growing expectation that this shift will be supported by the development of a network of new facilities in which primary, community and secondary care services are co-located, often referred to as polyclinics. ...

Author:: King's Fund and Dixon, Anna
Publication date:: 2008
Abstract:: These case studies complement the main report on Regulating Complementary Medical Practitioners.

Author:: Dixon, Jennifer, Gray, Diane, King's Fund, Rosen, Rebecca, Finlayson, Belinda, and Lewis, Richard
Publication date:: 2004
Abstract:: Chronic medical conditions such as asthma, diabetes, heart failure and hypertension affect large numbers of people, including patients, carers, families and friends. As the population in England ages, growing numbers of patients will need help with managing complex, multiple conditions over sustained periods. Apart from the burden of ill-health, treating ...

Author:: King's Fund and Dixon, Anna
Publication date:: 2008
Abstract:: Complementary medical practitioners may be a distinct minority in places such as Europe, North America and Australia, but in other countries the number of practitioners and the people who use their services are in the majority. Many practitioners practise without qualification or adequate training, and in response to this the ...

Author:: Lawton-Smith, Simon and King's Fund
Publication date:: 2005
Abstract:: Compulsory community-based treatment orders require patients at risk of harming themselves or others to comply with a set of conditions, such as taking their medication, while living in the community. The draft Mental Health Bill 2004 incorporates plans to introduce compulsory orders in England and Wales, but it is not ...

Author:: Dixon, Jennifer, Gray, Diane, King's Fund, Rosen, Rebecca, Finlayson, Belinda, and Lewis, Richard
Publication date:: 2004
Abstract:: Chronic medical conditions such as asthma, diabetes, heart failure and hypertension affect large numbers of people, including patients, carers, families and friends. As the population in England ages, growing numbers of patients will need help with managing complex, multiple conditions over sustained periods. Apart from the burden of ill-health, treating ...

Author:: Mays, Nicholas, King's Fund, Alvarez-Rosete, Arturo, and Lewis, Richard
Publication date:: 2006
Abstract:: The National Health Service (NHS) in England is in a state of transition as the government pushes forward a programme of significant reform. If the government achieves its stated objectives, the NHS will be transformed from a state-owned commissioning and provision system to one in which care is delivered by ...

Author:: King's Fund and Appleby, John
Publication date:: [2007]
Abstract:: Published in February 2007. and In order to help inform the debate about funding health over the next five to ten years, the King's Fund organised a meeting of senior managers, health economists and policy advisers at Leeds Castle. They discussed not only what level of public funding is feasible and desirable, but also the ...

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

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