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Author:: Malby, Becky, Management College (King's Fund), and Johnson and Johnson
Publication date:: 1997
Abstract:: This study gives an account of workshops held for health care leaders from fifteen countries in Europe on the needs for developing nursing leadership. Whilst the initial focus for development was nursing, the workshops in particular highlighted the need for multidisciplinary as well as uni-disciplinary development. In all the countries ...

Author:: Furlong, Sarah, Glenfield Hospital NHS Trust, and Nursing Development Units (King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development, King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1995
Abstract:: The aim of this booklet is to describe how the concepts of self-care are applied to nursing practice. It is based on a consensus reached by a group of nurses, all expert practitioners of self-care, who attended a collaborative conference in March 1994 to consider two questions: what is self-care; ...

Author:: Morrison, Paula, Nursing Development Units (King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development, King Edward's Hospital Fund for London), and Copperman, Jeanette
Publication date:: 1995
Abstract:: This is the third publication in a series based on the work of the King's Fund Nursing Development Units. Using interviews with staff, this book offers examples from five different units of the way in which patients and clients have become actively involved in delivery of care and service developments. ...

Author:: King's Fund Organisational Audit (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1994
Abstract:: This is the third edition of the Organisational Audit manual. Since 1990 several individual sections of the manual have been revised in order to ensure that the standards remain at the forefront of good practice as well as to reflect the significant changes which have taken place in the organisational ...

Author:: King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London) and Rafferty, Anne Marie
Publication date:: 1993
Abstract:: Leadership in British nursing has been neglected by nurses and policy makers. The legacy of this neglect is now being felt as nurses struggle to establish and identity a role for themselves in the changing environment of the NHS. Attempts to promote nursing leadership are not without their problems. There ...

Author:: King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London) and Macguire, Jillian
Publication date:: 1993
Abstract:: Nurse to nurse reporting is a critical part of good nursing practice in both primary and secondary health care settings. These guidelines have been revised to fit with current practices in the nurse to nurse handover procedures.

Author:: Gloucester Health Authority, King Edward's Hospital Fund for London, and Clay, Trevor
Publication date:: 1991

Author:: Quality Improvement Programme (King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development, King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1990
Abstract:: The purpose of this manual is to provide a comprehensive set of organisational standards covering the major aspects of an acute general hospital. This will form the basis of a professional peer review (the survey) the aim of which is to support the staff of hospitals in the provision of ...

Author:: Health and Social Care Communication Unit (King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development, King Edward's Hospital Fund for London) and Taylor, David
Publication date:: 1989
Abstract:: This paper was partly derived from the proceedings of a conference on Acute Care at Home, held in the King's Fund Centre in June 1989. The report states that Hospital at Home (HAH) services should be made available throughout the country. It shows that many patients prefer the provision of ...

Author:: King Edward's Hospital Fund for London and Royal College of Nursing
Publication date:: 1988
Abstract:: This second edition reflects the significant growth in quality assurance activity, and an increased willingness to share experience and expertise amongst those involved in the field. The directory covers the 192 DHAs in England, and provides comprehensive data from Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales. It includes a barchart comparing the ...

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