This report is the fifth in a series of reports prepared to inform the work of the King's Fund London Commission. It emphasises the diversity of London's older people, and highlights the fact that individual requirements for well-coordinated, patient-centred care are incompatible with the complex pattern of service provision in ...
This directory has been compiled as a means of sharing some of the activities undertaken in the Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting Development Units (NDUs) which have formed part of the Nursing Developments Programme at the King's Fund. Descriptions have been included of both small and large scale work as ...
This is the fourth in a series of reports published for the London Commission by the King's Fund. It focuses attention on the question of how transforming health care in London to meet the needs of the next century can be addressed. Reviewing the experience of the last five years, ...
This paper has been prepared as a summary of the discussion at a seminar held at the King's Fund on 30th October 1996. It seeks to clarify the purpose and function of intermediate care and incorporates the range of views held in relation to a number of key issues. It ...
It is widely recognised that there is a group of people who have health care needs, which, while not requiring the facilities of the acute hospital sector, do demand considerable support to regain a maximum level of health. A number of different initiatives have been explored to meet this diverse ...
This is a paper informing the work of the King's Fund London Commission. Its purpose is to describe the range of services that may be usefully categorised as intermediate care, devise a typology or taxonomy of these services, report on the extent and quality of literature on intermediate care, present ...
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 ...
This project followed the introduction of beta-interferon in one health region. It provided the opportunity to pilot many helpful approaches to the active management of drugs in health authorities. The report concludes that many of the approaches used in this situation were successful and could be applied to future similar ...
This report addresses two questions: which factors influence people with relapsing remitting MS to come forward for new drug therapies?, and what do these group of people with MS want from an organisation such as the Multiple Sclerosis Society (MSS)? In addressing the first question, the authors discuss various discouraging ...
This report is a case study of primary-secondary substitution as an achievable means of reconfiguring health care in London and the UK more generally. It systematically reviews the available local, national and international evidence on the potential for cost-effective primary-secondary substitution of emergency care. The evidence relating to substitution and ...
This book is for doctors and gives accounts of the type of work done by the King's Fund with them. It contains doctors' stories of their experiences as managers and the author and her colleagues' experiences of working as management developers with doctors. Beginning with a theoretical account of the ...
This Review is based on the financial year 1996 to 1997. The first part examines the main events of the year in five key policy areas: creating the new NHS ; community care ; public health strategy; serving the consumer; and clinical knowledge. The second part of the work contains ...
This report has been commissioned by the King's Fund London Commission as part of a range of work undertaken to revisit the needs of London's population for health care and progress in changing the pattern of health services in the capital. The study looks at capital schemes over £10 million ...
This bulletin gives a brief progress report on the work of Changing Days. Much of its contents will be written up in more detail in a book to be launched in 1998.
This report examines the findings of a national survey of NHS speech and language therapy managers and assesses the impact made by the reforms on this profession. It is divided into six parts. The introduction describes the context of the research and briefly reviews the literature which informed and seems ...
This report is a review of the evaluation of the London Initiative Zone (L.I.Z.) primary care development projects which were established through the former London Implementation Group (LIG) and which were in progress in 1995/6. It particularly focuses on the evaluation of revenue projects aimed at service development in primary ...