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The Health Quality Service accreditation programme : the Health Quality Service organisational standards incorporating the controls assurance programme, for organisations providing acute hospital services, community health services, learning disability services, mental health

Author:: Health Quality Service (King's Fund)
Publication date:: 1999
Abstract:: This new edition of the Health Quality Service accreditation programme has been extensively revised and updated to reflect government health policy and guidance in the various parts of the United Kingdom as well as taking account of changes and developments in quality assurance and improvement programmes nationally and internationally. These ...

A survey of acute hospital configurations in London

Author:: Mallender, Jacqueline, Goswami, Nilesh, and London Commission (King's Fund)
Publication date:: 1997
Abstract:: This is a report of a survey undertaken on behalf of the King's Fund London Commission. It provides an overview of the current configuration of acute hospital services in London, and consists of a description of the method and data sources used for the survey, a profile of acute services ...

Transforming health in London : summary

Author:: London Commission (King's Fund)
Publication date:: 1997
Abstract:: The National Health Service in London faces profound challenges. Currently, services are under intense strain. Access to appropriate care for Londoners is jeopardised, and public confidence has declined. In inner London, in particular, there are high levels of deprivation and growing health inequalities. While some of the country's leading hospitals ...

Transforming health in London

Author:: London Commission (King's Fund)
Publication date:: 1997
Abstract:: The National Health Service in London faces profound challenges. Currently, services are under intense strain. Access to appropriate care for Londoners is jeopardised, and public confidence has declined. In inner London, in particular, there are high levels of deprivation and growing health inequalities. While some of the country's leading hospitals ...

Accreditation UK : an organisational audit programme for acute, community, learning disabilities and mental health services

Author:: Organisational Audit (King's Fund) and Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
Publication date:: 1997
Abstract:: The publication of this manual of organisational standards is a major milestone for King's Fund Organisational Audit (KFOA) in that it brings together standards for acute hospitals, and the newly developed standards for community, learning disabilities and mental health services. This reflects the changing nature of health care organisations and ...

Londoner's views on the future of health care

Author:: Philo, John, Pettersson, Geraldine, Russell, Jill, King's Fund Commission on the Future of Acute Services in London (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London), King's Fund Institute (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London), Posner, Tina, and Davies, Jean
Publication date:: 1994
Abstract:: The object of this study was to collect information which embraced the richness and complexity of people's views on London's health care services to contribute to the King's Fund's work on London's acute services. This report provides a detailed picture of the ways in which respondents would like to see ...

Five essays on emergency pathways : a study of acute admissions to London hospitals

Author:: King's Fund Institute (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London), Gelder, Fiona, Bartholomew, Jenny, King's Fund Commission on the Future of Acute Services in London (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London), Armstrong, David, Savill, Rebakah, Morrell, David C., Jenkins, Clare, Britten, Nicky, Mandalia, Sundhiya, Green, Judith, Jankowski, Raymond, and Shaw, Adrienne
Publication date:: 1994
Abstract:: In 1992 the King's Fund Commission published a report `London health care 2010 : changing the future of services in the capital'. This report was unable to describe in any detail the actual delivery of acute medical care in London. This required a more indepth study of care based on ...

Shifting the balance : from acute to community health care

Author:: Boufford, Jo Ivey and King's Fund College (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1994
Abstract:: This paper is based on a speech delivered at the 1993 annual meeting of the National Association of Health Authorities and Trusts. The author considers how a policy initiative should call for a shift in the balance of services from the hospital to the community by: a shift in the ...

Hospitals and primary care : breaking the boundaries

Author:: King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London), Gordon, Pat, and Hughes, Jane
Publication date:: 1993
Abstract:: This working paper is based on the assumption that change in the direction of primary health care is desirable and inevitable. It explores the interface between acute hospitals and primary care, and describes developments that improve integration and show how a shift towards primary care might be achieved. It goes ...

Purchasing patient centred care : integrating primary, secondary and community health services

Author:: Heginbotham, Chris and King's Fund College (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1993
Abstract:: The impetus for this publication came from a seminar which was set up on behalf of the NHS Management Executive to investigate the lessons learned for the development of integrated purchasing from the Localities Project. Purchasing patient-centred health (and social) care requires deliberate focus on the patient through: patient centred ...

Medical advances : the future shape of acute services

Author:: King's Fund London Initiative (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London) and Stocking, Barbara
Publication date:: 1992
Abstract:: This working paper argues that the development of acute services should be a managed process, one in which they are positively reshaped and not just one in which development is coped with in isolation. The paper highlights some of the technological developments which have recently taken place, and those which ...

Health care labour markets : supply and change in London

Author:: Buchan, James, Seccombe, Ian, King's Fund London Initiative (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London), and Institute of Manpower Studies (University of Sussex)
Publication date:: 1992
Abstract:: This working paper examines the London labour market for health care staff. The study was conducted against the background of the early implementation of the National Health Service and Community Care Act and focuses on labour supply and on the extent to which planned or predicted changes in the profile ...

An optimal balance? : primary health care and acute hospital services in London

Author:: Gordon, Pat, King's Fund London Initiative (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London), and Hughes, Jane
Publication date:: 1992
Abstract:: This working paper is based on the assumption that change in the direction of primary health care is desirable and inevitable. It explores the interface between acute hospitals and primary care, and describes developments that improve integration and show how a shift towards primary care might be achieved. It goes ...

From hospital to home care : the potential for acute service provision in the home : the proceedings from a conference for European healthcare policy makers

Author:: King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London), Regional Office for Europe (World Health Organization), and Welsh Health Planning Forum
Publication date:: 1992

Homelessness and the utilisation of acute hospital services in London

Author:: Judge, Ken, Gill, Mike, Black, Mary, King's Fund Institute (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London), Scheuer, Mary Ann, Benzeval, Michaela, and Victor, Christina
Publication date:: 1991
Abstract:: It is widely believed that homeless people place considerable demands on emergency hospital services, but quantifying this in a systematic way has proved difficult. The primary purpose of this paper is to develop a better empirical understanding of the nature and extent of unplanned admissions to acute hospitals in London ...

London health 2010 : [report of a dinner and seminar held at the King's Fund College] 5th-16th October 1991

Author:: London Acute Services Initiative (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1991
Abstract:: This publication gives the participants, programme and notes for this event. It looks at four different scenarios for London in 2010, and the effects on health care of each.

The future of acute services : doctors as managers

Author:: King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1990
Abstract:: The four essays in this volume offer some insights into the following issues: clinical directors, from the view point of a clinician and a manager; USA experience of physician as managers in hospitals and the implementation of such a system; an assessment of the options for the NHS with doctors ...

Multi-disciplinary clinical teams

Author:: King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London), McFarlane, Jean, and Batchelor, Ivor
Publication date:: 1980
Abstract:: The development of multidisciplinary working in the administrative and clinical settings received much comment in the evidence at the Royal Commission. The first paper here is a summary of the issues involved. The second, by Professor Ivor Batchelor, a member of the Commission and Professor of Psychiatry, details experience of ...

The Health Quality Service accreditation programme : the Health Quality Service organisational standards incorporating the controls assurance programme, for organisations providing acute hospital services, community health services, learning disability services, mental health

A survey of acute hospital configurations in London

Transforming health in London : summary

Transforming health in London

Accreditation UK : an organisational audit programme for acute, community, learning disabilities and mental health services

Londoner's views on the future of health care

Five essays on emergency pathways : a study of acute admissions to London hospitals

Shifting the balance : from acute to community health care

Hospitals and primary care : breaking the boundaries

Purchasing patient centred care : integrating primary, secondary and community health services

Medical advances : the future shape of acute services

Health care labour markets : supply and change in London

An optimal balance? : primary health care and acute hospital services in London

From hospital to home care : the potential for acute service provision in the home : the proceedings from a conference for European healthcare policy makers

Homelessness and the utilisation of acute hospital services in London

London health 2010 : [report of a dinner and seminar held at the King's Fund College] 5th-16th October 1991

The future of acute services : doctors as managers

Multi-disciplinary clinical teams

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