The Sheffield Development Project arose from the thinking behind the 1971 White Paper "Better Services for the Mentally Handicapped", which was a government effort to provide clear leadership and a long-term strategy for the development of services for people with learning difficulties. The Sheffield Development Project has been a major ...
This study day arose from the D.H.S.S. study of the same name published in 1981 and was concerned with the policy implications of the D.H.S.S. document. An overview of the 'Respective Roles' study was given before discussing "models" of geriatric care with their advantages and disadvantages, and opportunities for mutual ...
Community Health Councils have the right to visit hospitals and other health care premises and to comment on what they find. In practice, it can be difficult and time consuming to achieve a worthwhile visit. This booklet is an attempt to suggest some guidelines and good practices which can make ...
These two workshops had a common theme, that of admissions policies as they affect students with disabilities. Participants in the workshops were especially invited, all having a particular interest in college admissions policies. They were mainly college principals; special advisors for students with disabilities in colleges of further education, polytechnics ...
This paper is a collection of reports on several sessions held on specific issues and innovative projects. Topics covered include:- Old age - the age of change ; Waterloo Pensioners' Health Group; pensioners' health courses in Barnet ; collaboration in the care of confusion ; neighbours as a resource ; ...
This conference arose out of the work that the London Community Health Resource has been doing since 1981 with health groups and workers in London who are interested in community development. The conference gave community health projects and initiatives from all over Britain the opportunity to present their work, and ...
One of the aims of the conference was to discuss the issues raised in the King's Fund Project Paper no. 51 ` Advocacy : the UK and American experiences'. This paper is an account of the conference and includes a list of the participants (including contributors to the project paper), ...
This project paper is a sequel to An Ordinary Working Life, and provides detailed accounts of a sample of schemes demonstrating how people with mental handicap, including some with severe handicap, can be integrated into ordinary work settings. It discusses the design of different schemes, with particular reference to job-finding ...
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 ...
This conference was one of a series of meetings Save the Children held to mark the publication of a report on the health of Traveller mothers and children in East Anglia. The conference was designed to give participants an overview of issues about Travellers' health, their difficulties with the health ...
This document was first published for use within the Mid-Glamorgan Health Authority and later revised for wider use. It aims to offer guidance to staff working in an accident and emergency department, especially for those staffing the department at night when advice may be less readily accessible. Principles of procedure ...
This paper aims to set out principles of good practice for services for people suffering from dementia. It is intended to be used by all those who are involved in operating, planning or monitoring services for these people. It begins by stating some key principles which should underlie the provision ...
This pack of papers has been built upon the plenary and group presentations made at a conference held in March 1983 entitled 'The Development of Comprehensive District Psychiatric Services' together with papers from the September Workshop on 'Planning Local Psychiatric Services.' The aim has been not to produce a standard ...
These three workshops held in the Autumn of 1979 aimed to bring together all those involved in teaching staff who work with mentally handicapped people in residential settings, whether in the health service, local authority services or in voluntary organisations. The main purpose was to enable these staff to share ...
In the USA, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals, (JCAH) has for many years been engaged in defining and promoting standards of good practice in health care. In 1981, a small multi-disciplinary team from the UK supported by a King's Fund grant visited the JCAH in Chicago and took ...
This study day aimed to help parents of mentally handicapped children to look ahead to the position of their children as they reached adulthood and to become better informed about their rights and about the services available to them. Five workshops were held dealing with different aspects: employment and further ...
This seminar, organised by the Renal Society, began with young dialysis patients talking about their treatment and lifestyles. The report goes on to consider the achievement of independence by the adolescent and the advantages and disadvantages of treating adolescents in a children's unit. Further discussion includes job prospects, educational aspects ...
This is a review of recent British initiatives based upon the principles of "An ordinary life", for both children and adults with learning difficulties. Key issues discussed include establishing commitment to basic principles, planning comprehensive services, acquiring appropriate housing, financing and staffing the residential service, operational policies and management, staff ...
This conference report describes the Hackney Multi Ethnic Women's Health Project which has been running successfully for years. The first paper sets out the principles and politics which gave life to the project and have continued to shape it. The second part of the report takes up four themes in ...
This discussion paper is about the provision of services for people with learning difficulties who may also be: blind or partially sighted; deaf or have partial hearing; physically disabled, epileptic, autistic, elderly, profoundly disabled or may show very disturbed behaviour at times. The paper deals with the philosophy or fundamental ...
People with learning difficulties need an appropriate educational input to help them to develop their personal relationship skills and feelings and they need to know where they stand if restrictions are placed on their behaviour because of their living environment. In the same way, staff need guidelines as well. These ...
Among the activities supported by the King's Fund Centre for the International Year of Disabled People were a series of lunch-time talks on key questions which needed to be addressed if the aims of the year were to be realised. This collection reproduces the text of the talks detailed below: ...
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 ...
Under the terms of the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970, social services departments are required to help with the provision of aids to daily living for disabled persons discharged from hospital, and with adaptations to their homes. The study aims to establish the extent to which social services ...
This project paper summarises the results of a survey of youth training in the NHS. The survey looked at the extent of involvement by the NHS in the Work Experience on Employers' Premises (WEEP) Scheme sponsored by the Manpower Services Commission and at the youth training being undertaken more generally. ...
The purpose of this report is to review the work of the Centre and to attempt some evaluation of this work as at the end of March 1973. The report starts by recalling the original objectives of the Centre and commenting upon the Centre's role as a forum and meeting-place. ...
The purpose of this report is to review the work of the Centre and to attempt some evaluation of this work as at the end of March 1974. The report starts by recalling the original objectives of the Centre and commenting upon the Centre's role as a forum and meeting-place. ...
The purpose of this report is to review the work of the Centre and to attempt some evaluation of this work as at the end of March 1975. The report starts by recalling the original objectives of the Centre and commenting upon the Centre's role as a forum and meeting-place. ...
This report concentrates on the activities of the Centre from April 1975 to the end of July 1976. The main body of the report is concerned with the work that has taken place; there is also a reference to the work of other organisations who have been housed within the ...
The purpose of this review is to provide a ready means of reference to the work of the King's Fund Centre. It continues the series of previous years and covers the period from the move to the new premises at Albert Street in August 1976 to the end of 1977. ...
This review, which continues the series begun many years ago, is the first to relate to a complete calendar year. It follows the layout established a year ago and it describes the activities of a particularly busy year. In the first section, the interest areas of the Centre are described; ...
The 1979 Review aims to be a ready means of reference to the work of the Centre. It differs in presentation from its two predecessors in that the Register of Projects has been produced in a separate volume.
The purpose of this Annual Review is to look back over the past twelve months as well as to look forward to the next year or so and try and identify how best the Centre can respond to the very rapid changes that are being made in the way health ...
This review of the King's Fund Centre for 1981 gives information about the chief areas of interest for the Centre: library & information services, long term care, community care, education and training developments and developments in health service planning activities. Information is also given about other organisations working from the ...
The presentation of this annual review follows closely the general lines of the previous two years, and the first four sections describe in detail the plans associated with the main interest areas at the Centre. There is also some discussion about the changing role of the Centre, with much of ...
This report reviews the activities of the King's Fund Centre and in particular the library and information services; education and training; long term care and community care; and the London Programme. It also describes the activities of the other organisations operating within the Centre and gives administrative information.
This report reviews the activities of the King's Fund Centre and in particular the library and information services; education and training; long term care and community care; the London Programme; the assessment and promotion of quality in care.
This report reviews the activities of the King's Fund Centre and in particular the library and information services; education and training; long term care and community care; assessment and promotion of quality in care; and the London Programme. It also describes the activities of the other organisations operating within the ...
The first section of this paper examines the need and demand for dental health. It discusses how treatment is provided in the United Kingdom and how the National Health Service is meeting the need. Objectives of dental health services are defined and positive steps towards their attainment suggested. The latter ...
In June 1979, the King's Fund arranged a two-day seminar for nurse managers to consider the Thwaites Report "The Education and Training of Senior Managers in the National Health Service." Following the seminar, a group of senior nurse managers and educators with a responsibility for management training met regularly at ...
Parents and professionals have a common objective, in the pursuit of which each brings differing skills and activities; their joint aim is to aid the development children with learning difficulties, and to enable that child to lead as good a quality of life as possible. the primary task falls to ...
This report is a summary of the final conferences on the care of elderly people based on a study of Danish experience in the field. The subjects for discussion were housing, the need for flexibility in care and the identification of good practices. Four syndicate groups discussed specific topics, keeping ...
This publication contains reports on a series of five conferences held at the King's Fund Centre between September 1972 and January 1973 on the subject of psychogeriatric services. The reports are entitled: 1) planning services for the elderly; 2) priorities for psychogeriatric care; 3) organisation of psychogeriatric care; 4) care ...
This project paper is the result of a series of small informal meetings held at the King's Fund Centre during 1971-73 to consider various aspects of the care of children in hospital and, in particular, to discuss ways of meeting the emotional needs of the child in the ward. The ...
This document reports a conference on chiropody which was arranged in three parts. The first included some of the less well-known aspects of chiropody which the Society of Chiropodists believes should be developed both because they are of benefit to patients and cost-effective in various ways. The second was directed ...
The concern of this report is to review some of the problems involved in the future collaboration between the health services and the personal social services after NHS reorganisation in 1974: in particular to highlight certain specific issues which seem to warrant more careful or detailed consideration. The problems of ...
This pamphlet details the programme for the move of staff and equipment from the Nutford Place premises of the King's Fund Centre, to Albert Street in 1976.
This report describes a system, devised by Cambridge Health District, by which a computer can regularly be used as the means to provide management information. The basis of the system is the standardisation of staff documentation (application form, appointment form, personal details amendment form and leaving form). It is not ...
This is the first in a series of 17 papers which were prepared during the life of the Royal Commission on the National Health Service. The paper is an analysis of the evidence submitted to the Royal Commission on the NHS 1976-1979, demonstrating some of the problems and difficulties with ...