This is a pamphlet publicising the Better Futures project, a two-year initiative to encourage the development of effective, comprehensive local services which are responsive to the needs and wants of users and their families.
Anyone who has cancer or is suspected of having cancer, needs information, comfort and support. The objective of this conference was to equip delegates to meet those needs. Communication with the patient was discussed, to enable the patient to understand and come to terms with the disease. Difficulties in communication ...
This paper is a report from a seminar run by Michael Kendricks, director of the Safeguards Project, and Cathy Costanzo, Centre for Public Representation, while visiting this country from Western Massachusetts, USA. The seminar was held at the King's Fund Centre on 11 July 1986, and chaired by Dr. David ...
The Quality Assurance Project was set up at the end of 1984 to stimulate the assessment and promotion of quality in health care in Britain. This report presents the findings of a survey undertaken to identify what practical steps were being taken by individual professional organisations (colleges) and to make ...
This publication consists of the collated information of a survey undertaken in the autumn of 1985 by the Long Term and Community Care Team at the King's Fund Centre. All NHS district general managers in the UK were contacted, to find out about innovations in services for the elderly during ...
A collection of five papers given at a conference held at the King's Fund Centre to celebrate the first ten years' publication of Journal for Advanced Nursing. The papers discuss the role of scholarship within the nursing profession in the following spheres: nursing education; nursing management; nursing practice. Other papers ...
The publication of "Primary health care: an agenda for discussion" was welcomed by the London Project Executive Committee of the King's Fund as an opportunity to contribute to the debate on the future of primary health care. In order to prepare a response which would contain practical recommendations for improving ...
This response to the Green Paper `Primary health care : an agenda for action' steers a middle course between `alternative' green papers and detailed comments on the few firm proposals. The structure of the response follows that of the six objectives outlined in the Green Paper: 1) raising standards of ...
On 5 June 1986 a national conference was held at the King's Fund Centre to discuss the report of the community nursing review, Neighbourhood nursing: a focus for care. This report of the conference proceedings is not a direct narrative. The introduction describes the background to the review, the team's ...