Index Catalog // The King's Fund Digital Archive

Author:: King Edward's Hospital Fund for London
Publication date:: 1968
Abstract:: After 19 years it is clear that the foundations of the NHS are sound, but there is still much readjustment to be achieved within the general plan. It has become increasingly clear that somehow much better cooperation must be achieved if the main divisions of the NHS, hospitals, public health ...

Author:: King Edward's Hospital Fund for London
Publication date:: 1973
Abstract:: This report is the outcome of an enquiry into the subject of relationships between GPs and hospitals. Its object is to draw attention to the problem of communication between hospitals and general practitioners and make any recommendations which seem indicated.

Author:: King Edward's Hospital Fund for London
Publication date:: 1977
Abstract:: This document includes six papers presented at the seminar. The papers look at the relationship between consultants and general practitioners; the collection of data within community services; community psychiatry; and the education of general practitioners.

Author:: North West Regional Association of Community Health Councils, Reynolds, Joy, and King's Fund Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1979
Abstract:: This conference was organised in conjunction with the North West Regional Association of Community Health Councils to discuss the proper role of the accident and emergency (A & E) service. Areas under discussion included the centralisation of A & E services in district general hospitals and the role of the ...

Author:: King Edward's Hospital Fund for London and Dowie, Robin
Publication date:: 1983
Abstract:: The book studies referral behaviour by relating medical referrals sent by doctors to a district hospital to findings from in-depth interviews with these doctors and to information about their use of the investigation services. The author goes on to study the outcome of the referrals by interviewing the consultants concerned ...

Author:: King's Fund Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London), May, Annabelle, and Allsop, Judy
Publication date:: 1985
Abstract:: 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 ...

Author:: King's Fund Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1986
Abstract:: The publication of "Primary health care: an agenda for discussion" was welcomed by the London Project Executive Committee of the King's Fund as an opportunity to contribute to the debate on the future of primary health care. In order to prepare a response which would contain practical recommendations for improving ...

Author:: Rothman, Arthur, Wakeford, Richard, Roden, Marian, and King Edward's Hospital Fund for London
Publication date:: 1986
Abstract:: At whatever age general practitioners retire, whether early, late, or at what is regarded as the conventional time (65), this is likely to have substantial implications for manpower planning - in the UK for example in connection with the demand for and establishment of vocational training schemes. A study of ...

Author:: Richards, Clive and King Edward's Hospital Fund for London
Publication date:: 1989
Abstract:: This paper looks at the attitudes and behaviour in seeking health care of all the general medical practitioners in one family practitioner area - Avon. The results show that this group of doctors find difficulty in receiving help from other doctors, particularly for conditions to which doctors are most susceptible. ...

Author:: King Edward's Hospital Fund for London and Cartwright, Ann
Publication date:: 1990
Abstract:: The care given to a random sample of adults who died in 1987 is described retrospectively by relatives and others who had known them. Most praised, or were satisfied with, the care given by general practitioners but both the statistics and the quotations reveal some disconcerting inadequacies in this care, ...

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