Every individual's needs are different, but well-planned and good quality services can offer support & `share the care' of people who cannot manage alone at home. This leaflet provides a clear statement of what needs to be done, so that carers - and the people they care for - can ...
This report offers advice to West Lambeth Health Authority on the future of its child and adolescent psychiatric services. In considering services offered by West Lambeth HA, the advisory team had in mind a particular model or standard service for child and adolescent psychiatry which could be applicable to any ...
A summary of Griffiths' proposals for community care looking at the basic ideas behind the report, and drawing out what these could mean for people with disabilities. An optimistic view has been adopted, concentrating on what could be possible if the Griffiths recommendations are implemented in a positive way.
This background paper marks the 40th anniversary of the NHS not so much by celebrating past achievements but by addressing some of the issues which are critical to the establishment of an effective agenda for health in the 1990s and beyond. Areas covered are the health debate including financial reform; ...
This paper is a collection of reports on several sessions held on specific issues and innovative projects. Topics covered include:- Old age - the age of change ; Waterloo Pensioners' Health Group; pensioners' health courses in Barnet ; collaboration in the care of confusion ; neighbours as a resource ; ...
Purchasers are faced with the prospect of collecting a range of information from service users, potential service users and the general public in their area. There are two main areas of collected information which will inform the contracting process : assessing and prioritising health needs; and monitoring current service standards. ...
This pamphlet discusses methods for obtaining users' views, acknowledging that the best approach to adopt will depend upon the types of user involved and the aim of the exercise. It discusses quantitative methods for monitoring or answering `how many?' questions; and qualitative methods for the exploration of issues or answering ...
These information sheets will be of use to health service staff or community health councils who wish to find out the views of children whether they are using acute services, community services or health services for children with special needs. The purpose of these sheets is: 1)to give useful reading ...
These information sheets will be of use to health service staff or community health councils who wish to find out the views of elderly users of health services. The purposes of these sheets is: 1) to give some useful reading references for this field; 2) to give details of some ...
These information sheets will be of use to health service staff or community health councils who wish to find out the views of users of patient information. The purpose of these sheets is: 1) to give some useful reading references for this field or an overview of the literature; 2) ...
These information sheets will be of use to health service staff or community health councils who wish to find out the views of users of services provided by professionals allied to medicine. For the purposes of this pack professions allied to medicine covers chiropodists, dieticians, occupational therapists, pharmacists, physiotherapists, speech ...
These information sheets will be of use to health service staff or community health councils who wish to find out the views of users with learning difficulties. The purpose of these sheets is: 1)to give useful reading references for this field; 2) to give details of some current major projects; ...
This menu book is designed to help those who are responsible for planning menus in convalescent homes. It consists of 52 ruled pages, one for each week of the year, on which menus may be planned and recorded. In the introduction there are one or two suggestions for planning menus, ...
Against a background of apparent official disinterest in monitoring of the NHS reforms, the King's Fund decided to make such evaluative work the focus of a major grants programme. Seven projects have been selected for financial support, each to run over a three year period, 1990-1993. The work of the ...
This pamphlet details and illustrates the fully equipped radium room at the Royal Marsden Hospital which was funded by the King Edward's Hospital Fund for London.
This resource list contains information on selected books, journal articles, films, tapes and exercises which may be useful in training staff or volunteers who are working with `confused', `mentally infirm' or `mentally ill' elderly people. It does not set out to provide a blue print for a programme of training ...
In view of mounting concern about the level of preservation of medical records, the King's Fund Centre agreed to provide facilities for a one day conference. The morning session was devoted to papers outlining the major aspects of the problems of preservation of medical records. The afternoon session discussed four ...
This report is intended to share the learning which a group of NHS managers derived from an exploration of total quality management (TQM) in the NHS. It sets out to examine the relevance of TQM to the NHS, points out some of the challenges posed by it, and suggests a ...
This book provides the results of a confidential enquiry into perioperative deaths conducted with the collaboration of both the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland, and the Association of Anaesthetists. The overall findings are reassuring, although several less than satisfactory practices are revealed. The conduct and outcome of ...
This background paper forms a contribution to the seminar. The author is the Vice-Chancellor of Academic Affairs, University of California. This paper accompanies KFC 79/179
The second King's Fund Forum, was held between 1-3 October 1986. A panel of twelve listened to evidence from experts in public sessions. After closed sessions, the panel discussed its report with the audience and an agreed consensus statement was then presented at a press conference. The four questions addressed ...
The fourth King's Fund Forum was held in London from 30 November to 2 December 1987. A panel of twelve listened to evidence from experts in public sessions. After closed sessions the panel discussed the report with the audience; the agreed consensus statement was then presented at a press conference. ...
The chief purpose of the visit to Stockholm was to study the functions of the Swedish Central Board of Hospital Planning and the Purchasing Centre of the Swedish County councils, and also to see some of the more recently built hospitals in the country. The chief purpose of the visit ...
The sixth King's Fund Forum was held in London from 26 to 28 June. Five questions were addressed; what is the relationship between dietary fats, blood cholesterol and the levels of coronary heart disease; what individual or community-wide dietary or other interventions can reduce blood cholesterol levels and the risk ...
Resources can be allocated to health care in a variety of ways. Ten major approaches are described in this document. All of these fall within a number of ethical and economic constraints, and yet health authorities differ in the extent to which they place emphasis on important factors. No perfect ...
The Health Advisory Service has been operating for almost 20 years. This is the first detailed study of its effectiveness. The authors describe how the Health Advisory Service works and reflect upon what they saw and heard in their investigation. They considered three questions - how well does the Health ...
The first UK consensus development conference, on coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG), was held between 21-23 November 1984. A panel of twelve listened to evidence from experts and from the conference participants. Four questions were addressed: 1) What are the pros and cons of CABG for various types of patient, ...
This book is described as being a 'reflective tour of where the NHS is coming from, the world it is likely to face in the 1990s, and some ways in which we could strengthen it'. It covers demography, social and environmental stress, medical developments, public expenditure constraints, and likely themes ...
The Mental Health Foundation funded a project to improve working relations between voluntary and statutory agencies in the field of community care, focussing primarily on people with long term mental health problems. This paper is laid out as a series of chapters covering aspects of collaborative work. Each is followed ...
This publication gives details of 50 projects in England and Wales which provide services for people with learning difficulties and challenging behaviour. Brief details of each project are given including the population serviced; the geographical basis; agencies involved; description of the project; and a named contact and address.
Helen House, a hospice for children, is a philosophy, not a facility, which aims to enable families to care for their sick child at home in specific ways: by ensuring that extra community support is mobilised; by offering respite care; by telephone contact and home visits. While there is undoubtedly ...
This report describes a visit made by staff of the Charing Cross Hospital to a number of recently built hospitals in Europe in May 1947. The visit was financed by a grant from the King's Fund. The purpose of the visit was to study methods of hospital design and planning. ...
Two two-day pilot workshops for self-advocates with learning difficulties and for advisors were held. Under the title 'Helping your self-advocacy group to grow', the workshops aimed to help people increase their own skills and those of other members of their group. People attending already had a basic knowledge of self-advocacy ...
This conference looked at the work of the community Care Centre, a small community-based GP hospital in inner London. The Centre offers valuable lessons for all health professionals about patient autonomy and participation, collaborative work between professions, GP and community involvement, and imagination in environmental design. The report is not ...