The thesis of this paper is that an analysis of the GP budget holding proposal (in 'Working for Patients'), in the light of the US HMO movement and the managed care industry it has spawned, will provide valuable insight into how the British innovation might function, or not. The paper ...
This project paper has been compiled as a result of workshops and conferences on unit management held at the King's Fund College and King's Fund Centre, February 1980 - February 1982. The challenge for management at unit level is to improve efficiency, monitor standards, simplify decision-making processes and carry out ...
This workshop explored the role, needs and training requirements of those involved in administration at operational level within unit general management. The objectives of the workshop were: to clarify the role of the unit administrator; to identify key issues to take into account in establishing effective teamwork and leadership; to ...
This conference was held at the King's Fund College of Hospital Management and the main themes were: methods of appraising hospital and health services; costing hospital and health care; manning hospital and health services; integrating components of hospital and health services.
This memorandum offers guidance to hospitals in the financial management of their catering departments, by defining the respective roles of the finance and catering officer in the preparation of the figures required for ascertaining and controlling the cost of feeding patients and staff. The role of the Hospital Administrative Staff ...
In March 2005, the King's Fund published An Independent Audit of the NHS under Labour (1997-2005), which included an analysis of where extra NHS funding had been spent. This briefing provides an update to the question "where's the money going?" It analyses new data recently released by the Department of ...
One in four NHS trusts in England ended 2004 in deficit. The impact of current NHS reforms will be to magnify financial imbalances at a significant number of trusts, with the risk that some of them will fail. But there is no real plan for dealing with failure in the ...