This book presents the reality of racism in today's NHS. It attempts to tackle the discrimination and injustice some people from minority ethnic groups working in the health service and particularly medicine currently endure. Using a range of anecdotal accounts, historical perspectives and research by contributors from culturally diverse backgrounds, ...
Around 14 per cent of the population are thought to have significant disabilities; there is a rising aging population in the UK suggesting that this percentage will continue to increase over the next 20 years, and changes in demographics and the rise of female employment suggest that current levels of ...
This report focuses on NHS trust mergers and mergers of health authorities. It was commissioned by the HEA to summarise the available literature. It describes common causes of failure, and suggests ways in which NHS leaders involved in merger can enable the organisational aims of the merger to be achieved, ...
In the spring of 1996, the Implementation Group of North Thames Research and Development allocated £50000 to each of thirteen health authorities for evidence into practice implementation projects. In autumn 1996, the King's Fund Management College was commissioned to evaluate the 17 approved projects. This is the second of three ...
The authors evaluated the implementation of Health at Work, a national programme of work which has begun to open up the workplace health agenda as an organisational and leadership development agenda. Through their research and evaluation strategy they established that: workplace health interventions can make a positive difference to workforce ...
In the 1960s, the King's Fund caused a major stir when it developed a new specification for hospital beds. Manufacturers implemented the specification as the 'King's Fund bed', which was revolutionary in its time and a major step forward in patient care. Today, more than 30 years later, the bed ...
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.
As part of their work for North Thames Research and Development, the King's Fund collected data on all Betaferon users from December 1995 to September 1996 in the North Thames region. They also organised discussion groups with 24 potential or actual users of the drug. The report looks at who ...
In the spring of 1996, the Implementation Group of North Thames Research and Development allocated £50000 to each of thirteen health authorities for evidence into practice implementation projects. In autumn 1996, the King's Fund Management College was commissioned to evaluate the 17 approved projects. In particular, they were interested in ...
In the spring of 1996, the Implementation Group of North Thames Research and Development allocated £50000 to each of thirteen health authorities for evidence into practice implementation projects. In autumn 1996, the King's Fund Management College was commissioned to evaluate the 17 approved projects. In particular, they were interested in ...