This book - developed from a systematic review of evidence about the impact of the NHS internal market - asks what lessons can be learned from the internal market reforms, and how this knowledge can be used to aid policy-making in the future. It synthesises all the evidence on the ...
The NHS (Primary Care) Act 1997 made possible local contracts for general practice services and spawned Personal Medical Services (PMS) pilots. These are intended to make primary care services more sensitive to local needs and are therefore particularly useful in London where long-term infrastructural problems have proved intractable. The King's ...
This publication consists of the agenda and supporting material produced for this seminar. The items discussed included: good and bad news on Living Options and support services; strengths, weaknesses and gaps in local services; community support systems; implementation challenges; and key provisions of the NHS and Community Care Act.
This publication is a comprehensive review of health care and policy issues. It includes a detailed description of health events in the last twelve months, as well as discussion of key policy issues. Specific areas dealt with in this issue include: influencing the diffusion of new medical technologies; the future ...
Because the NHS was founded to provide equal access to all on the basis of need rather than the ability to pay, price was eliminated as a method of bringing demand for services into line with supply. This means that the Government has to make decisions about the amount of ...
This pack is designed to help all those people with an interest in, or responsibility for, the development of evidence based practice in line with the clinical governance agenda. It has been drawn together following three years of working with small multi-professional groups and the content was piloted with the ...
Barriers to mainstream health and social care services for London's minority ethnic communities include a complex array of poorly organised and delivered services, inadequate communication services for non-English speaking groups, direct staff insensitivity to users' cultural and religious needs, and institutionalised barriers that perpetuate discriminatory behaviour and poor practices. This ...
This inquiry concludes that care and support for older and disabled people could collapse unless the Government allocates at least £700 million extra to social services each year. It shows that Britain's estimated one million care and support workers exist on low pay, with poor training, inadequate support from their ...
Based on six King's College London debates, this book explores the moral dilemmas raised by modern medicine. The public debates tackled issues such as health and poverty, bioengineering, euthanasia and mental health. In each of the six topics, two speakers exchanged views and their talks are published in this volume, ...