Patient choice has been central to the government's recent NHS reforms, along with a new payment system that rewards hospitals that are attractive to patients. But will these reforms make services more responsive? In the treatment of HIV and AIDS, patients have always had a choice of which hospital to ...
This history begins with the foundation of the Lancet in 1823, and ends in 1982 with the restructuring of the National Health Service, when the management of hospitals in isolation from other health services had ceased. The opening chapters consider the endowed and voluntary hospitals, the poor law infirmaries and ...
These guidelines have been compiled in response to an assessed need from hospitals for help with commissioning arts and artists. It is divided into seven chapters and includes guidance on the need for a committee; choosing a site; the commissioning process; fundraising. Its recommendations are based on 10 years of ...
This document brings up to date the particulars of pay bed accommodation in London shown in appendix II of the report on pay bed accommodation. The original terms of reference for this report were "to inquire and report upon the question of hospital accommodation in London for persons prepared to ...
This survey originated from tutorial discussions at the college, at a time when there was concern about the difficulty experienced by hospital authorities in recruiting grammar school leavers in the London area. It was decided to seek information about the problem from regional training officers and, at the same time, ...
This checklist is the result of a study carried out during the management course which formed part of the National Training Scheme in Hospital Administration at the King's Fund College. The aim of the study was to discover the extent to which good industrial relations practice, as set out in ...
In 1976, the Jubilee Project was established by the King's Fund to commemorate Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth's Silver Jubilee by upgrading wards in ten of London's older hospitals. Many of London's district general hospitals had not been rebuilt as had been planned in the early 1960s, and little renovation had ...
The terms of reference for the enquiry were : "to enquire and report as to the existing provision for pensions to officers and staff employed in the London Voluntary Hospitals and as to what alteration or extension (if any) of the existing arrangements is desirable and practicable, and generally to ...
In the first half-century of its work, the King's Fund was concerned with the support, benefit and extension of the voluntary hospitals of London, and therefore had little or no contact with mental and mental deficiency hospitals. When the National Health Service Act was implemented in 1948, the need for ...
The memorandum discusses methods by which individual hospitals may prepare records of quantities of items consumed (for example gas, soap, food), and may use them for the purpose of securing the co-operation of the various departments of the hospitals in strengthening the control of expenditure.
In 1941, King Edward's Hospital Fund for London and the Voluntary Hospitals Committee for London established a Joint Committee to consider post-war problems of the hospitals of London with a view to maintaining and improving the standard of services which they render to patients. This is the report produced by ...
This document, presented in tabular form, is a summary of the published accounts of London hospitals and serves to provide each hospital with the figures of other hospitals as an aid to financial control.
This document divides into three distinct sections. The first considers improvements in the Statistical Returns prepared by King Edward's Hospital Fund for London in order to facilitate a truer comparison between the expenditure of different hospitals. The second part presents tables which should be used for statistical returns, including the ...
This document divides into three distinct sections. The first considers improvements in the statistical returns prepared by King Edward's Hospital Fund for London in order to facilitate a truer comparison between the expenditure of different hospitals. The second part presents tables which should be used for statistical returns, including the ...