Index Catalog // The King's Fund Digital Archive

Author:: Hamblin, Richard, Boyle, Sean, and London Commission (King's Fund)
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a comprehensive review of the health and health care of the population of London, based on a variety of published and unpublished data sources.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 ...

Author:: Greig, Rob and Joint Community Care Commissioning Project (Development Centre, King's Fund)
Publication date:: 1996
Abstract:: This report was commissioned by the King's Fund as part of the process of evaluating the impact and effectiveness of their work in the five development sites of the project. The two questions the report attempted to answer were: to what extent the sites had met the service change targets ...

Author:: Poxton, Richard and Joint Community Care Commissioning Project (Development Centre, King's Fund)
Publication date:: 1995
Abstract:: This is the fourth in a series of briefings from the King's Fund's Joint Community Care Commissioning Project, and the last before the Project's final report. It continues the theme of achieving change through joint commissioning and questions whether it really can lead to a significant improvement in the quality ...

Author:: Morris, Jenny, Living Options Partnership (King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development, King Edward's Hospital Fund for London), and Prince of Wales' Advisory Group on Disability
Publication date:: 1995
Abstract:: This publication sets out guidelines for those commissioning health and social services for people with physical and/or sensory impairments between the ages of 16 and 65. It starts by identifying what are the general aims of commissioning activities directed at this group of people before moving on to address the ...

Author:: Fletcher, Sheila, Prince of Wales' Advisory Group on Disability, Begum, Nasa, and Living Options Partnership (King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development, King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1995
Abstract:: This publication aims to provide a quick guide to improving disability services for senior managers in health and social services who may have overall responsibility for services for adults with physical or sensory impairments yet not have a detailed involvement at an operational level. The guide is written primarily for ...

Author:: Poxton, Richard, Towell, David, and Joint Commissioning Project (Community Care Group, King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development, King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1994
Abstract:: This is a summary of a workshop in a continuing series of short events designed to explore the development of collaborative commissioning in the light of evolving local experience. Participation was drawn from the five sites involved in the King's Fund Centre's Joint Commissioning project, eight other health and local ...

Author:: Poxton, Richard, Towell, David, and Joint Commissioning Project (Community Care Group, King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development, King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1994
Abstract:: This is a summary of a workshop in a continuing series of short events designed to explore the development of collaborative commissioning in the light of evolving local experience. Participation was drawn from the five sites involved in the King's Fund Centre's Joint Commissioning project, eight other health and local ...

Author:: Poxton, Richard and Joint Commissioning Project (Community Care Group, King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development, King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1994
Abstract:: The first two briefings looked at major issues involved in joint commissioning services for older people and examined progress at each of the five development sites. This third briefing concentrates upon the achievement of change, particularly making a positive impact on older people's lives through collaborative commissioning. A major theme ...

Author:: King's Fund Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London) and Richards, Kay
Publication date:: 1980
Abstract:: Increasing expectations of social service departments and the need for social work to establish itself as a new and independent profession has led to friction within the NHS. Although the NHS is not the largest customer for social service departments, many patients and clients are the same people. Services have ...

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