The second King's Fund Forum, was held between 1-3 October 1986. A panel of twelve listened to evidence from experts in public sessions. After closed sessions, the panel discussed its report with the audience and an agreed consensus statement was then presented at a press conference. The four questions addressed ...
This report is the responsibility of a Steering Committee set up by the Royal College of Psychiatrists, the Association of University Teachers of Psychiatry and the Association of Psychiatrists in Training. The book explains how a future psychiatrist embarks on a professional education, and the pathway along which educational training ...
The papers that comprise this collection are the proceedings of a workshop organised by the Department of Mental Health, University of Bristol, in May 1986. The workshop aimed to explore issues and strategies for ensuring quality in community services for people with mental handicap. The papers are organised and presented ...
This conference, held on 13 and 14 February 1986 was organised by the GLC with assistance from the King's Fund. This volume is a collection of edited conference speeches, workshop summaries and an information section. Nine key areas are identified:- prevention; medical practice; non-medical NHS workers; complementary alternative medicines; self-help; ...
This book is a contribution to managers' helping each other to learn. Most of the papers in the book are written by health service managers; they are not someone else's account of what those managers do or say they do, but the thoughts of the managers themselves on their own ...
This is the first in an annual series of volumes on medical law and ethics based on lectures given at the Centre of Medical Law and Ethics, King's College London. The contributors, who came from a wide range of disciplines and represent diverse interests, review important issues in the forefront ...
This book aims to provide an account of the range of work carried out by the Family Practitioner Committees, the bodies responsible, in England and Wales, for administering the contracts of general practitioners, dentists, opticians and pharmacists. This is the first comprehensive study of FPCs. It analyses the political environment ...
The ways in which hospitals administer patients' money and provide residents with access to their income play a large part in controlling the amount of money a resident can use. Because so little attention has been paid to the financial position of residents in long-stay hospitals it is not know ...
The causes of diarrhoea and the way it is brought about are presented as a consecutive narrative in readable form. Readers without medical knowledge will understand how the condition comes about, recognise the circumstances which give rise to the danger and have some inkling as to the precautions needed to ...
This research project is the result of collaboration by the following organisations:- The King's Fund; London Boroughs Training Committee; London Voluntary Services Council; National Institute of Social Work; Age Concern Greater London. It was financed by the King's Fund. The limits of altruism explores the social and psychological processes which ...