Planning for people is a series of pamphlets designed to share information gained from the experience of setting up and running a comprehensive community service for adults with mental handicap in South Bristol, using ordinary housing. They are intended to give an account of the Bristol development, and some discussion ...
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 paper describes innovatory schemes and progress in bringing children with learning difficulties out of hospital. At the conference, Barnardo's N.W. Division presented information about their professional fostering scheme, followed by Portsmouth and S.E. Hampshire Health Authority's provision of alternative accommodation in the community for mentally handicapped children. A dehospitalisation ...
The concept of advocacy has been slow in gaining acceptance in the UK. An account of the work of Advocacy Alliance is provided here by Bob Sang, its first co-ordinator, who examines all the barriers (both attitudinal and structural) that are placed in the way of any organisation seeking such ...
This paper aims to present two main types of information. Firstly, it aims to identify the various factors - demographic, economic and ideological - which have come together to create an unprecedented crisis for those involved in the provision of health and social services to the elderly population. Secondly, it ...
This booklet was produced to serve as a reminder of the wide range of services given by hospital porters, and especially the part they play in patient care. It discusses the need for training and draws attention to the training now available. Providing a portering service calls for management skills ...
A small peer group of senior nurses managers meet at the King's Fund Centre bi-monthly to exchange ideas. In 1983-84 they identified a particular concern relating to recording incidents of accidents and the group focussed on the need for nurses to be encouraged to record all such incidents as a ...
A summary of social characteristics in all district health authorities in England has not been published before. The items presented here are about children, the elderly, housing, migration and economic factors, and include a selection of composite scores. Similar information about electoral wards may be used to identify the most ...
Between 1977 and 1981 the author visited over 100 places providing short-term care for children who are mentally handicapped and interviewed families whose children were receiving short-term care. This book describes the development of short-term residential care, who makes use of it, parents' reactions to and opinions of the services, ...
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 ...
Small area statistics from the 1981 Census are an important and in some cases the only source of demographic information about particular neighbourhoods. The statistics are available from the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys, and some health regions and districts have bought them. The figures are very detailed, and ...
This evidence refers to the NHS Management Inquiry chaired by Roy Griffiths. Robert Maxwell is Secretary of the King's Fund (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London) and Tom Evans is Director of the King's Fund College. This evidence is submitted by them jointly. They are grateful for the advice of ...
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 ...
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 ...
This second section of the report on surgical services in Herefordshire has three parts. Part A includes the authors' observations of practices in waiting list management and admissions policy which caused concern. Part B concerns practices in the operating theatres which were observed and which give cause for concern. Wherever ...
This report describes the work of a small special interest group established in 1981, to promote the concept of continuing education. Ways of carrying out this promotion included stimulating national interest and awareness through the dissemination of information and ideas via conferences, publications and workshops and examining the role of ...
This project paper is the product of a working party convened by the King's Fund Centre to examine the provision of day services for people with mental handicaps. The importance of work in society and for people with mental handicaps is discussed and principles of service design described. Problems with ...
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 report is of a forum held at the King's Fund Centre on the study of the history of nursing and the lessons it has for nurses. The four speakers volunteered topics appropriate to the title of the forum. Winifred Hector spoke on the evolution of nursing status, followed by ...
This is a guide to researching the history of nursing covering the research method and the major readings in the discipline of history which will help anyone interested in the history of nursing to develop that interest in the ways most appropriate to them. The first section is concerned with ...
This register attempts to summarise most of the innovative projects financed by the Fund at this time. These are promoted by several of the Fund's committees.
Race and Employment in the NHS is based on a conference organised by the King's Fund and the Polytechnic of the South Bank which examined the practical steps that health authorities and managers should take to ensure equal opportunities for people from ethnic minority groups. This booklet describes ways in ...
Despite government policy concentrating on the pursuit of greater efficiency in the NHS and the encouragement of private sector alternatives, effective public participation in health is essential. The editors argue that no combination of health services is going to be satisfactory which does not explicitly recognise and promote the importance ...
This conference was held to discuss the second report of the Maternity Service Advisory Committee, Maternity care in action - care during childbirth (Intrapartum care). The purpose of the conference was to consider how health authorities, professionals, voluntary groups and consumer organisations could best contribute to the enhancement of the ...
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 publication has evolved from a peer group of nurses who have worked in the role of nurse teacher while combining it with clinical responsibilities, and researchers interested in observing such roles. Despite widespread interest, joint clinical teaching appointments are relatively few in number and geographically dispersed. The peer group ...
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: ...
Judy Heumann is currently with the World Institute on Disability, a US policy organisation which works on both national and international issues. During November 1983, she was in England to meet disabled people in Hampshire, Manchester, Nottingham and London, where Centres for Independent Living are being developed. This is a ...
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 ...
The first UK consensus development conference, on coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG), was held between 21-23 November 1984. A panel of twelve listened to evidence from experts and from the conference participants. Four questions were addressed: 1) What are the pros and cons of CABG for various types of patient, ...
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 ; ...