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), ...
In 1983, the King's Fund gave a grant to the National Council for One Parent Families to initiate a pilot project in London to explore lone parents' views of their own health and the health of their children. The conference provided an opportunity to consolidate the work so far and ...
Among the initiatives launched by the Steering Group was a study involving five district health authorities to review the operational information required about doctor-patient relationships and contacts, and to develop effective ways of collecting the data required. Participants undertook a comprehensive review of the organisational structures and management arrangements which ...
This is the first comprehensive guide for health service managers and other senior staff on all aspects of good public relations practice, including dealings with the press, radio, television etc. Public relations is NOT about 'ducking and weaving against the journalists, silencing abrasive pressure groups and covering up embarrassing mistakes.' ...
This symposium was arranged to discuss the problems of hospital clinical records and was attended by historians, clinicians, epidemiologists, administrators, archivists, representatives of relevant organisations, and other people whose interest in the topic is well known. The symposium concentrated on how to deal more effectively with the problem 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; the London Programme; the assessment and promotion of quality in care.
During 1984, the King's Fund and the National Association of Health Authorities agreed to set up a joint working party, under the chairmanship of Lady McCarthy, to review the present system of pay determination in the NHS and to make recommendations for reform. This report covers the present Whitley Council ...
This seminar was organised jointly by the King's Fund College and the Royal College of Nursing to explore accountability, leadership and power in nursing as it relates to society. Membership of the seminar was spread widely throughout Europe encompassing nurses able to speak with authority about their own health care ...
This collection of papers was produced following the King's Fund conference "Planning and Monitoring Community Mental Health Centres" held in May 1984. This conference dealt with management and information gathering and it is these themes rather than professional and clinical skills that are covered in the papers. The aim has ...
The Relief Care Support Group first met in December 1980 when there were a number of workers involved in London relief care schemes. It aims to enable people to get together more formally and spend time sharing and learning from each other. The group was started as a support group ...
Since the publication of An Ordinary Life in 1980, the King's Fund has shared with a large and growing network of people across the country in efforts to develop comprehensive community-based services. Experience has underlined the importance of staff training in its broadest sense as a fundamental contribution to the ...
An important consequence of the major changes now taking place in the structure and process of NHS management has been a realisation of the value of statistical information to decision making at all levels. The NHS/DHSS Health Services Information Steering Group, chaired by Mrs Edith Korner for whom this festschrift ...
This study was commissioned by the King's Fund London Project Executive Committee in December 1983 to examine the problems of telephoning doctors in London as experienced by patients and other service providers. The authors examine the availability of general practitioners during the day and out-of-hours, the variety of answering services ...
This book explains - in simple and clear language - the value and use of statistical information as an important management tool. The author shows how the content, organisation and presentation of data can illuminate the goals which an authority sets itself and the way it intends to achieve them. ...
The role of library services in the NHS is highlighted in this paper, which offers proposals for developing these services in response to the needs of all users. The proposals arise from a series of workshops held between May and December 1983, which were organised by a joint working party ...
St Mark's colo-rectal hospital celebrated its 150th anniversary in 1985. It is the only colo-rectal hospital to survive in Britain and thus is unique. It is also a particularly distinguished example from a class of hospitals that developed in the nineteenth century in London and elsewhere to combat specific diseases, ...