In the 1960s, the King's Fund caused a major stir when it developed a new specification for hospital beds. Manufacturers implemented the specification as the 'King's Fund bed', which was revolutionary in its time and a major step forward in patient care. Today, more than 30 years later, the bed ...
In the 1960s, the King's Fund caused a major stir when it developed a new specification for hospital beds. Manufacturers implemented the specification as the 'King's Fund bed', which was revolutionary in its time and a major step forward in patient care. Today, more than 30 years later, the bed ...
In the 1960s, the King's Fund caused a major stir when it developed a new specification for hospital beds. Manufacturers implemented the specification as the 'King's Fund bed', which was revolutionary in its time and a major step forward in patient care. Today, more than 30 years later, the bed ...
Six citizens' juries pilot schemes, sponsored by the Institute for Public Policy Research and the King's Fund, took place in the NHS between June 1996 and March 1997. This book evaluates all aspects of this experiment, from an explanation of the background to the pilots to descriptions of the jury ...
This is a review of intensive care and high dependency care at Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust, which followed on from a trust-wide organisational review carried out in the previous year.
This working paper is the first report from the national evaluation of total purchasing pilot projects to provide evidence on the achievements of all 53 'first wave' pilots in England and Scotland. It also looks at the range of factors associated with more and less successful total purchasing in 1996-97 ...
This report draws together the interim findings from the first two years of a three year evaluation of all first and second wave TPPs in England and Scotland which began in October 1995, led by the King's Fund. The report discusses whether first wave TPPs have developed the organisational requirements ...
The aim of this working paper is to present a profile of the thirty-five second wave Total Purchasing Pilots (TPPs) in England and Scotland as part of the national evaluation of TPPs. Its objectives are: to describe the basic characteristics of the second wave TPPs, particularly highlighting similarities and differences ...
Innovations introduced into the NHS such as total purchasing (TP) have raised issues about information requirements and information technology. Information and information systems for TP are inadequate, with major problems being centred on a lack of guidance on specific systems for TPPs and an absence of software standardisation. Poor activity ...
There have not been any set criteria against which to assess the merits of the various ways in which total purchasing has developed nationally. An important part of the evaluation of total purchasing in the first year was, therefore, an attempt to derive success criteria which would enable comparison between ...