The aims of this conference were to identify the problems that are particular to those working in terminal care, to find ways of solving them, and to look at the future development of the specialty. Terminal care is distinguished from other medical care by the need to relieve pain that ...
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 ...
Representation before Mental Health Review Tribunals has been the most problematic area in the relationship between the hospital and the Project. This paper is the result of a wish to examine the problems caused by representation at MHRTs by Project workers. the paper is in three parts: the mental health ...
The Continuing Care Project (CCP) is concerned with improving the quality of the arrangements made for support and care in the community when elderly people are discharged from hospital. This current study, which describes practices in use in 1982, shows that whilst significant progress has been made in tackling the ...
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 ...
Since the publication of HC(84)13 following the report of the Griffiths' Management Inquiry, anxiety about the managerial and professional roles of nurses in the `post-Griffiths' era has been expressed by nurses throughout the NHS. The King's Fund convened a working party for invited participants under the chairmanship of Lady McCarthy ...
The original idea for this meeting between FPCs and CHCs at a national level, came form a DHSS seminar in Harrogate for chairmen and administrators of FPCs. The conference was organised jointly by the Society of FPCs, the Association of CHCs of England and Wales and the King's Fund. Speakers ...
This report, by a Brunel team led by Professor Maurice Kogan, was commissioned by the King's Fund at the request of the Department of Health and financed by the Department. It describes the Management Advisory Service in the Oxford and South Western regions, and Performance Review in Wessex, in the ...
Since 1948, doctors have had a powerful influence on national and local health policies. They have not, however, always had a happy relationship with the administration that had to implement the policies. Recently the argument for cost effective management, rather than just efficient administrators, in the NHS has been greatly ...
The aim of this study is to explore the effect of alternative methods of financing health services on health service performance - particularly performance with respect to efficiency and equity - in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. All countries face certain dilemmas in financing health services: health ...
Planners face a series of dilemmas and choices involving the centralisation of widespread distribution of services, the balance of specialist and generalist, the training needs of professionals and the welfare of families. These papers were given at the first NAWCH conference on planning children's services and hope to provide a ...
This conference took place within the context of three related developments. Firstly, there was the wide-ranging debate about standard setting and the measurement of quality in public services. Secondly, there were the more specific concerns about standards of care in residential accommodation for the elderly, and thirdly, there was the ...
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, ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 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 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.' ...
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 ...
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 ...
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), ...