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Author:: Robinson, Janice, Levenson, Ros, The King's Fund, and Greatley, Angela
Publication date:: 2003
Abstract:: In 2002, the King's Fund commissioned a major inquiry into the state of the capital's mental health and mental health services and how far they meet the needs of service users. The inquiry set out to: investigate whether mental health care had improved in the capital since the King's Fund ...

Author:: Ford, Richard, Department of Health (Great Britain), King's Fund, Greatley, Angela, and Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
Publication date:: 2002
Abstract:: 'Working Together in London', a three-year, £2 million programme, was set up by the King's Fund, the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health and the Department of Health to support people with severe and long-term mental health problems. New assertive outreach services were established in three of London's most deprived communities ...

Author:: King's Fund
Publication date:: 2001
Abstract:: This publication is a comprehensive review of health care policy issues. This edition takes London as its theme. It contains a calendar of events from February to May 2001 and articles on areas of health policy such as: public health; mental health services; refugees and asylum seekers' health experience; public ...

Author:: National Primary Care Research and Development Centre (University of Manchester), Lee, John, King's Fund, Gask, Linda, Roland, Martin, and Donnan, Stuart
Publication date:: 1999
Abstract:: This report describes the evaluation of total purchasing and extended purchasing sites with an interest in mental health services. A consistent objective of these sites was the improvement of communication and information flows between primary and secondary care. The priority was the development of services for people with common mental ...

Author:: Centre for Mental Health Services Development, King's Fund, Greatley, Angela, and Peck, Edward
Publication date:: 1999
Abstract:: Policy changes in health and social care present new opportunities for primary care to work in partnership with others to improve provision for people with mental health problems. Policy connections between mental health services, primary and community care were not always made effectively in the past and attention to implementation ...

Author:: King's Fund, Byng, Richard, and Single, Helen
Publication date:: 1999
Abstract:: People with long-term mental health problems suffer considerable disability and are at risk of relapse or deterioration. Primary and secondary care have traditionally been separated, leading to poor communication and lack of role definition. Furthermore, there has been no national programme aiming to improve service delivery for this group of ...

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 ...

Author:: Research Unit (Royal College of Psychiatrists), Centre for the Economics of Mental Health (Institute of Psychiatry, University of London), London Commission (King's Fund), Centre for Mental Health Services Development (King's College, London), and Johnson, Sonia
Publication date:: 1998
Abstract:: The findings outlined in this book describe a service in inner London that cannot be sustained because it is unable to meet the demands imposed upon it. Services in outer London are comparable with those in other English cities. The mental illness services are in a state of transition, and ...

Author:: Lee, John, King's Fund, Gask, Linda, Roland, Martin, and Donnan, Stuart
Publication date:: 1998
Abstract:: This study describes the aims, methods and interim findings of a study to evaluate the impact of total purchasing and extended fundholding on the provision of mental health services. All baseline telephone interviewing has now been completed and the authors report on findings from the analysis of semi-structured telephone interviews ...

Author:: Development Centre (King's Fund) and Levenson, Ros
Publication date:: 1997
Abstract:: This report presents some of the main themes that emerged from a series of workshops on various aspects of primary care organised and hosted by the King's Fund in the summer and autumn of 1996. The topics covered in the workshops were change in primary health care, frail elderly people, ...

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