The workshop day aimed to bring together people from a wide range of statutory and voluntary agencies in the field of health, social services, and education, with a particular interest on grassroots organisations working in minority ethnic communities. The overall objective was to create an awareness of young Black carers. ...
Community-based teaching is of central importance in current debates on the future of undergraduate medical education as changes in health care and service delivery are forcing medical schools to adopt new ways of clinical teaching. This report arises out of a conference held at the King's Fund Centre in July ...
This publication is a composite of the standards in `Organisational audit (accreditation UK) standards for an acute hospital' which relate directly to the patient and their carers. The `Consumer checklist' has been divided into three main sections: patient's rights and special care needs; inpatient episode; outpatient/day care episode. It aims ...
The information exchange is produced particularly for supporters and advisors of self-advocacy groups and people with responsibility for developing effective ways of working in partnership with users in planning and delivering services. This issue looks at involving service users in the planning and development of services and complaints procedures.
The information exchange is produced particularly for supporters and advisors of self-advocacy groups and people with responsibility for developing effective ways of working in partnership with users in planning and delivering services. This second issue includes an interesting collection of individual and group experiences from both service users and staff ...
The information exchange is produced particularly for supporters and advisers of self-advocacy groups and people with responsibility for developing effective ways of working in partnership with users in planning and delivering services. This issue looks at conflict of interest with experiences from users. The articles include: paid self-advocacy workers not ...
This series looks at some of the ways in which Nursing Development Units (NDUs) have tried to make their nursing more beneficial for patients. The nurses assess to what extent their initiatives really do contribute to patient well-being and what has helped them bring about the changes. Each book will ...
The purpose of this book is offer an introduction to primary nursing for nurses who are interested in the subject. It offers an overview of the background to primary nursing. It raises some of the implications for practitioners in terms of responsibility and accountability, as well as some practical ideas ...
This pamphlet is a report on a two-day meeting which discussed reports that, although most people in Britain seem to understand how A.I.D.S. is transmitted, they are doing little or nothing to alter their sexual behaviour in a way which could reduce their chances of becoming infected. The conference felt ...
This series looks at some ways nurses in Nursing Development Units (NDUs) have tried to make their nursing more beneficial to patients. The nurses assess to what extent their initiatives really do contribute to patient well-being and what has helped them bring about the changes. Each book will help nurses ...
This unpublished paper outlines a process for specialty reviews, following on from the recommendations of the `Report of the inquiry into London's health service, medical education and research' (London : Department of Health, 1992) in which it was recommended that working parties be formed under the direction of the London ...
In this booklet the author, a primary nurse, describes how she enlisted her colleagues' support in improving pain management in a general hospital setting. This series looks at some ways nurses in Nursing Development Units (NDUs) have tried to make their nursing more beneficial to patients. The nurses assess to ...
This publication provides useful information for Chinese carers in the following areas: financial assistance, medical and health services; personal support for the carer; practical help at home; help with transport; aids, equipment and supplies; interpreting and translation services; advisory services; death and dying; London research; useful national organisations; Chinese organisations ...
All carers have social, emotional, medical, financial and practical needs. Those of Chinese carers are compounded by isolation brought about through language and cultural differences, and unusually long work hours. This book helps people in statutory and voluntary organisations contact Chinese carers, identify their needs and provide the services they ...
This paper examines the relative health status of Londoners in the light of the current attention being given to the provision of health care in London. It has three aims: to compare the health of residents of London with that of people in comparable areas elsewhere; to investigate the factors ...
London occupies a unique position in the provision of acute health care in Britain, in terms of resources consumed, the quantity of care provided and the institutional framework within which service provision takes place. It is a commonly held belief that London has more than its fair share of health ...
This report was prompted by the current debate on how best to determine nurses pay in the NHS. Increased emphasis on cost, devolution of managerial responsibility, and the establishment of NHS Trusts are key elements of the NHS reforms, and will have a major impact on the way nurses pay ...