The report attempts to review the main issues surrounding the funding and management of units providing dialysis services to people suffering from end-stage renal failure in the UK for the benefit of health service managers, renal physicians and other staff. The objective is to review the experience and information currently ...
This report examines the kind of work facilitators do, their achievements and the factors that help or hinder progress in a rapidly changing world. Three different models are described - Oxford, Best Friend and Camberwell.
In March 1990 the King's Fund College and NAHA were commissioned by the Department of Health to undertake a survey of the training and development needs of the now DHAs. The survey follows on from the discussion paper 'Managing with authority'. This report presents the results of the survey and ...
The Relief Care Support Group first met in December 1980 when there were a number of workers involved in London relief care schemes. It aims to enable people to get together more formally and spend time sharing and learning from each other. The group was started as a support group ...
This project was undertaken to collect information on the services offered to people with learning difficulties. During the course of the project the idea of collecting `critical incidents' was suggested by some of the participants to elicit gaps in coordination. (For the purpose of this project a critical incident is ...
The primary aim of this workbook is to provide managers, front-line workers, external and internal 'inspectors', informal carers and service users, with a shared framework for consultation and evaluation of the quality of services. It is predominantly concerned with community care; however, it has applications in acute and community services ...
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 ...
The purpose of this manual is to provide a comprehensive set of organisational standards covering the major aspects of an acute general hospital. This will form the basis of a professional peer review (the survey) the aim of which is to support the staff of hospitals in the provision of ...