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Changing our days : finding ways to get what you want from life : handbook and audio CD for people with learning difficulties

Author:: King's Fund
Publication date:: 1999
Abstract:: This book is an easy to use handbook and CD to help men and women with learning difficulties have better day opportunities. It is about working with services, families and other supporters to help people to get paid jobs, do courses at college and get certificates, make more friends, have ...

Ordinary wisdom : reflections on an experiment in citizenship and health

Author:: King's Fund, Davies, Stella, Hanley, Bec, New, Bill, Sang, Bob, and Elizabeth, Susan
Publication date:: 1998
Abstract:: This book is designed as a series of personal reflections on three pilot citizens' juries in health authorities around the country. The first chapter consists of a historical perspective on the contribution that citizens' juries may make to democratic practice. It concludes that a clear understanding of the objectives of ...

Days of change : a practical guide to developing better day opportunities with people with learning difficulties

Author:: King's Fund and National Development Team
Publication date:: 1998
Abstract:: This second study from the Changing Days project is a practical guide on how best to achieve the integration of adults with learning difficulties into the community. It builds on the vision set out in the first book, Changing Days, and reflects the experience of working in five sites around ...

Changing days : the story so far..

Author:: Whittaker, Andrea, National Development Team, McIntosh, Barbara, Moore, Linda, and Community Care Group (Development Centre, King's Fund)
Publication date:: 1997
Abstract:: 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.

Changing days : developing new day opportunities with people who have learning difficulties

Author:: National Development Team and Community Care Group (Development Centre, King's Fund)
Publication date:: 1996
Abstract:: This book is a practical guide that examines how to move away from segregated services for people with learning difficulties to a service based on individual needs. It outlines the progress of the Changing Days project, a partnership between the King's Fund and the National Development Team, which was launched ...

Carers Impact : taking stock and taking action : a short intensive programme to accelerate improvements in practical support for carers.

Author:: Carers Impact (King's Fund)
Publication date:: 1996
Abstract:: This report gives details of a new audit and action planning programme which has been designed to assist statutory authorities who wish to take stock of their current direction in developing support for carers, ensure that the needs of carers from all communities are being addressed, review local implementation of ...

Managing to listen : a guide to user involvement for mental health service managers

Author:: King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London) and Philpot, Terry
Publication date:: 1994
Abstract:: This publication is intended to offer practical assistance to mental health service managers who want to initiate or develop user involvement. Its aims are: to draw on the experiences of managers, staff and users; to identify problems and offer solutions and ideas based on those experiences; and to identify ways ...

Achieving user participation : planning services for people with severe physical and sensory disabilities

Author:: Twitchin, Diana, Living Options In Practice (King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development, King Edward's Hospital Fund for London), Prince of Wales Advisory Group on Disability, and Fiedler, Barrie
Publication date:: 1992
Abstract:: This document bases its discussions on user participation on the experience gained from two and a half years' practical work between Living Options In Practice and eight multi-agency Practice Teams throughout England, which worked to create comprehensive disability service systems. The following elements are discussed in the context of the ...

Information exchange on self-advocacy and user participation : services to people with learning difficulties

Author:: Community Living Development Team (King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development, King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1992
Abstract:: 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.

Managing psychiatric services in transition : working papers

Author:: King's Fund College (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London) and National Health Service Training Authority
Publication date:: 1989
Abstract:: These seven papers detail key lessons from the work of the King's Fund College, which since 1983 has been mounting a programme of educational and field development activities designed to assist networks of local people in addressing the challenges involved in managing psychiatric services in transition. The papers suggest a ...

Living options lottery : housing and support services for people with severe physical disabilities 1986/88, report of the Living Options Project..

Author:: Prince of Wales' Advisory Group on Disability and Fiedler, Barrie
Publication date:: 1988
Abstract:: This publication offers guidelines for statutory and voluntary agencies on the preconditions to and ingredients of a quality housing and care support service for physically disabled people. It presents case histories from the project research, and documents some of the innovative schemes and services that are helping disabled adults to ...

Last on the list : community services for people with disabilities

Author:: Beardshaw, Virginia and King's Fund Institute (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1988
Abstract:: This report analyses the health and social support services presently available to people with physical disabilities in Britain within the wider framework of national, social and community care policy. It attempts to piece together a comprehensive picture of current provision from a wide variety of sources and stresses the need ...

Coordinating change in child health services : decentralisation of clinic administration in Newham Health Authority

Author:: Winn, Liz and King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1987
Abstract:: This document describes the planning process by which Newham Health Authority reorganised their child health services from a centralised to a locally administered service. Those responsible for managing the changes have identified the elements of the planning process which they think were significant in enabling the relatively smooth introduction of ...

British geriatric medicine in the 1980's

Author:: Brocklehurst, John, Andrews, Keith, and King Edward's Hospital Fund for London
Publication date:: 1987
Abstract:: This volume describes in detail the organisation of resources and the distribution of doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, occupational therapists and others working in geriatric units. It also examines and compares different styles of geriatric practice. The authors argue that planning should be done on a national basis. They include suggestions for ...

A.I.D.S. - planning local services : report of a conference for local authorities, health authorities and voluntary organisations in London

Author:: King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1987
Abstract:: This conference was organised by the London Strategic Policy Unit and held on 8 April 1987. Workers from health services, local authorities and voluntary bodies met to exchange ideas and compare experience of providing services for A.I.D.S. patients. A paper was presented by the director of supportive housing from the ...

Assessment, resettlement and rehabilitation : designing the arrangements for moving people from psychiatric hospitals into local services

Author:: Kingsley, Susan, Towell, David, McAusland, Tom, and King's Fund College (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1986
Abstract:: This is the third paper by the authors on managing the relocation of psychiatric services from large institutions to new patterns of local provision. It offers a summary of their current thinking about the characteristics of an assessment and resettlement model which would be compatible with the wider planning issues ...

Planning health services for children : a NAWCH conference [held] at the King's Fund Centre on 14 February 1985

Author:: National Association for the Welfare of Children in Hospital, Hull, David, and King's Fund Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1985
Abstract:: Planners face a series of dilemmas and choices involving the centralisation of widespread distribution of services, the balance of specialist and generalist, the training needs of professionals and the welfare of families. These papers were given at the first NAWCH conference on planning children's services and hope to provide a ...

Developing community-based residential services for people with mental handicap : a review of recent British initiatives based upon the principles of "An ordinary life"

Author:: King's Fund Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London) and Towell, David
Publication date:: 1984
Abstract:: This is a review of recent British initiatives based upon the principles of "An ordinary life", for both children and adults with learning difficulties. Key issues discussed include establishing commitment to basic principles, planning comprehensive services, acquiring appropriate housing, financing and staffing the residential service, operational policies and management, staff ...

Epidemiology and policies for health planning

Author:: McCarthy, Mark and King Edward's Hospital Fund for London
Publication date:: 1982
Abstract:: Epidemiology and policies for health planning is a guide to health planning according to need. It describes the health measures and sources of data available in England and sets out in detail the patterns of health and disease of different health care groups in the population, and what opportunities there ...

Service planning in the restructured NHS : the role of the district health authorities : a report of a conference held at the King's Fund Centre, on 10th December 1981

Author:: King's Fund Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1981
Abstract:: This conference was organised by the King's Fund to provide a forum for discussion about the implications for service planning in the National Health Service of the proposals outlined in the DHSS consultative paper HN(81)4. The topic was discussed under the following headings: new policies: old problems; health service planning ...

Changing our days : finding ways to get what you want from life : handbook and audio CD for people with learning difficulties

Ordinary wisdom : reflections on an experiment in citizenship and health

Days of change : a practical guide to developing better day opportunities with people with learning difficulties

Changing days : the story so far..

Changing days : developing new day opportunities with people who have learning difficulties

Carers Impact : taking stock and taking action : a short intensive programme to accelerate improvements in practical support for carers.

Managing to listen : a guide to user involvement for mental health service managers

Achieving user participation : planning services for people with severe physical and sensory disabilities

Information exchange on self-advocacy and user participation : services to people with learning difficulties

Managing psychiatric services in transition : working papers

Living options lottery : housing and support services for people with severe physical disabilities 1986/88, report of the Living Options Project..

Last on the list : community services for people with disabilities

Coordinating change in child health services : decentralisation of clinic administration in Newham Health Authority

British geriatric medicine in the 1980's

A.I.D.S. - planning local services : report of a conference for local authorities, health authorities and voluntary organisations in London

Assessment, resettlement and rehabilitation : designing the arrangements for moving people from psychiatric hospitals into local services

Planning health services for children : a NAWCH conference [held] at the King's Fund Centre on 14 February 1985

Developing community-based residential services for people with mental handicap : a review of recent British initiatives based upon the principles of "An ordinary life"

Epidemiology and policies for health planning

Service planning in the restructured NHS : the role of the district health authorities : a report of a conference held at the King's Fund Centre, on 10th December 1981

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