Index Catalog // The King's Fund Digital Archive

The reconfiguration of hospital services in England.

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Author:: Maybin, Jo and King's Fund
Publication date:: 2007
Abstract:: The reconfiguration of hospital services in England has been a contentious issue. There have been local public protests against hospital closures and more recently a concerted effort by the government to communicate the clinical case for change. The final report of the NHS Next Stage Review is due for publication ...

King's Fund response to Health Select Committee Inquiry on NHS Next Stage Review.

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Author:: King's Fund
Publication date:: 2008
Abstract:: This paper is a response by The King's Fund to the Health Select Committee NHS Next Stage Review inquiry.

Shifting the balance of health care to local settings : the SeeSaw report.

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Author:: McMahon, Laurie, King's Fund, and Harvey, Sarah
Publication date:: 2008
Abstract:: Government health policy has been encouraging a shift in the balance of care from hospital to community settings. The Department of Health commissioned The King's Fund, in partnership with Loop2, to undertake a simulation-based project entitled SeeSaw to understand how this shift in care could be achieved. This report outlines ...

Shaping PCT provider services : the future for community health.

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Author:: Imison, Candace and The King's Fund
Publication date:: 2009
Abstract:: Primary care trusts (PCTs) provide a broad and complex range of community-based services. However, the commissioning and management of these services have been a challenge for the NHS and in particular for PCTs. As PCTs provide community health services, there is a potential conflict of interest for their role as ...

Rehabilitation in rapid response services : maximising opportunities for people working in and managing rapid response services

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Author:: Spencer, Linda and King's Fund
Publication date:: 2000
Abstract:: This report has been prepared to share information about rapid response services for older people, to encourage the identification and adoption of good practice and to give people the opportunity to learn from the experiences of others. It draws on information shared at a workshop held by the Rehabilitation Programme ...

The Health Quality Service accreditation programme : the Health Quality Service organisational standards incorporating the controls assurance programme, for organisations providing acute hospital services, community health services, learning disability services, mental health

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Author:: Health Quality Service (King's Fund)
Publication date:: 1999
Abstract:: 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 ...

The health economy of London : a report to the King's Fund Commission

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Author:: London Commission (King's Fund), Boyle, Sean, and Hamblin, Richard
Publication date:: 1997
Abstract:: This report provides a comprehensive review of the health and health care of the population of London, based on a variety of published and unpublished data sources. The report considers London in three ways: first, by providing comparisons between different parts of the capital; second, by comparing areas of London ...

Accreditation UK : an organisational audit programme for acute, community, learning disabilities and mental health services

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Author:: Organisational Audit (King's Fund) and Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
Publication date:: 1997
Abstract:: 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 ...

From individual illness to community health : how five general practices are learning with their 'difficult to treat' patients and local communities to develop teamwork, partnership and locality resources for health : a King's Fund workshop

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Author:: Primary Care Group (Development Centre, King's Fund)
Publication date:: 1995
Abstract:: This workshop explored the approaches developed by five NHS general practices who are learning from their patients and communities to develop resources which provide new health creating options. Human considerations are kept to the fore, teamwork and an active partnership with patients are encouraged and a wide range of integrated ...

Shifting the balance : from acute to community health care

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Author:: Boufford, Jo Ivey and King's Fund College (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1994
Abstract:: 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 ...

Widening the horizons of medical education : a report on the issues involved in moving medical education into the community

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Author:: King Edward's Hospital Fund for London and Department of General Practice and Primary Care (King's College School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of London)
Publication date:: 1994
Abstract:: The Innovation in Medical Education project, based in the Department of General Practice and Primary Care, King's College School of Medicine and Dentistry aimed to explore the implications of a substantial move of medical education into the community. The main areas covered were: interviews with a wide range of interest ...

Mental health and Britain's black communities

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Author:: Prince of Wales Advisory Group on Disability, NHS Management Executive (Department of Health, Great Britain), Wilson, Melba, and King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1993
Abstract:: The purpose of this document is to take the debate and practice concerning the situation of Black people who are diagnosed as suffering from mental illness beyond the point of counting heads, and instead to focus more on acknowledging and highlighting positive methods of diagnosing and treating mental health problems ...

Obtaining the views of users of primary and community health services

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Author:: King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London) and McIver, Shirley
Publication date:: 1993
Abstract:: This publication is the fifth in a series aimed at helping health service staff to obtain the views of service users, and it is written for anyone who has been given this responsibility, whether nursing, medical, paramedical or managerial. The series presumes no social science background and offers a flexible ...

Purchasing patient centred care : integrating primary, secondary and community health services

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Author:: King's Fund College (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London) and Heginbotham, Chris
Publication date:: 1993
Abstract:: 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 ...

Doing different things in a different way : possibilities for the post-Tomlinson primary and community health services development programme for London

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Author:: King Edward's Hospital Fund for London
Publication date:: 1993
Abstract:: The aim of this unpublished paper is to provide all Londoners with primary and community health services which both meet their needs for high quality health care and which - over time - can appropriately substitute for certain services currently provided in acute hospitals. If Sir Bernard Tomlinson's recommendations are ...

Decentralising community health care in Islington

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Author:: Primary Health Care Group (King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development, King Edward's Hospital Fund for London) and Dalley, Gillian
Publication date:: 1990
Abstract:: This is a report of the initiative in Islington which was part of a larger project to test out ideas which came from a number of sources. It was concerned with looking at how far small-scale approaches to the management and delivery of services could improve the quality of primary ...

User friendly services : guidelines for managers of community health services

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Author:: King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London), Quick, Allison, and Winn, Liz
Publication date:: 1989
Abstract:: Written for managers of community health services, this book offers practical help on how to make services user friendly and more responsive to the needs of people who use them. Detailed case studies provide ideas for people 'getting started' as well as describing some common pitfalls. The particular problems associated ...

Locality management : from proposals to practice in Lewisham and North Southwark

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Author:: King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London), Lewisham & North Southwark Health Authority, and Morgan, Dave
Publication date:: 1989
Abstract:: The DHSS funded three development workers to work in three differing health authorities to explore the possibilities for improving primary health care in the inner city by developing patch or locality management and planning of services work more closely together; and to establish three local experiments with different approaches to ...

The consumers' view : elderly people and community health services

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Author:: King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London) and Cornwell, Jocelyn
Publication date:: 1989
Abstract:: This report suggests ways in which managers and professionals can make community care more responsive to elderly people. The first part of the report examines ageism and its effects on health care. It describes how elderly people from black and ethnic minority groups are effected by racism. Part Two is ...

The future of community health services

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Author:: Primary Health Care Group (King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development, King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1989
Abstract:: The future of community services was the title of a conference held in November 1988 at the King's Fund. This report follows the format of the conference, with speakers' presentations followed by reports of the discussions which took place in the afternoon workshops. Also explored are the role of the ...

The reconfiguration of hospital services in England.

King's Fund response to Health Select Committee Inquiry on NHS Next Stage Review.

Shifting the balance of health care to local settings : the SeeSaw report.

Shaping PCT provider services : the future for community health.

Rehabilitation in rapid response services : maximising opportunities for people working in and managing rapid response services

The Health Quality Service accreditation programme : the Health Quality Service organisational standards incorporating the controls assurance programme, for organisations providing acute hospital services, community health services, learning disability services, mental health

The health economy of London : a report to the King's Fund Commission

Accreditation UK : an organisational audit programme for acute, community, learning disabilities and mental health services

From individual illness to community health : how five general practices are learning with their 'difficult to treat' patients and local communities to develop teamwork, partnership and locality resources for health : a King's Fund workshop

Shifting the balance : from acute to community health care

Widening the horizons of medical education : a report on the issues involved in moving medical education into the community

Mental health and Britain's black communities

Obtaining the views of users of primary and community health services

Purchasing patient centred care : integrating primary, secondary and community health services

Doing different things in a different way : possibilities for the post-Tomlinson primary and community health services development programme for London

Decentralising community health care in Islington

User friendly services : guidelines for managers of community health services

Locality management : from proposals to practice in Lewisham and North Southwark

The consumers' view : elderly people and community health services

The future of community health services

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