This new edition of the Health Quality Service accreditation programme has been extensively revised and updated to reflect government health policy and guidance in the various parts of the United Kingdom as well as taking account of changes and developments in quality assurance and improvement programmes nationally and internationally. These ...
This is a report of a survey undertaken on behalf of the King's Fund London Commission. It provides an overview of the current configuration of acute hospital services in London, and consists of a description of the method and data sources used for the survey, a profile of acute services ...
The National Health Service in London faces profound challenges. Currently, services are under intense strain. Access to appropriate care for Londoners is jeopardised, and public confidence has declined. In inner London, in particular, there are high levels of deprivation and growing health inequalities. While some of the country's leading hospitals ...
The National Health Service in London faces profound challenges. Currently, services are under intense strain. Access to appropriate care for Londoners is jeopardised, and public confidence has declined. In inner London, in particular, there are high levels of deprivation and growing health inequalities. While some of the country's leading hospitals ...
The publication of this manual of organisational standards is a major milestone for King's Fund Organisational Audit (KFOA) in that it brings together standards for acute hospitals, and the newly developed standards for community, learning disabilities and mental health services. This reflects the changing nature of health care organisations and ...
The object of this study was to collect information which embraced the richness and complexity of people's views on London's health care services to contribute to the King's Fund's work on London's acute services. This report provides a detailed picture of the ways in which respondents would like to see ...
In 1992 the King's Fund Commission published a report `London health care 2010 : changing the future of services in the capital'. This report was unable to describe in any detail the actual delivery of acute medical care in London. This required a more indepth study of care based on ...
This paper is based on a speech delivered at the 1993 annual meeting of the National Association of Health Authorities and Trusts. The author considers how a policy initiative should call for a shift in the balance of services from the hospital to the community by: a shift in the ...
This working paper is based on the assumption that change in the direction of primary health care is desirable and inevitable. It explores the interface between acute hospitals and primary care, and describes developments that improve integration and show how a shift towards primary care might be achieved. It goes ...
The impetus for this publication came from a seminar which was set up on behalf of the NHS Management Executive to investigate the lessons learned for the development of integrated purchasing from the Localities Project. Purchasing patient-centred health (and social) care requires deliberate focus on the patient through: patient centred ...