New Health Network exists to encourage the NHS to fulfil its potential by stimulating an environment of innovation and change in the NHS for the benefit of patients. Its aim in publishing this book is to stimulate debate and provide a space for thinking that will be necessary to achieve ...
This report looks at how the Patients' Charter has worked in the past and and what patients and NHS staff would like to see covered in a future health charter. It is based on research commissioned by the NHS Executive and the King's Fund to help the Labour government review ...
This research was carried out at the request of the Northern Ireland Health and Social Services department to complement the work undertaken by the King's Fund for the NHS Executive on the English Patient's Charter. The aims were to establish whether patients, carers and staff views and experiences of the ...
A workshop was held at the King's Fund Centre on 3 November 1993 in which physiotherapists experienced in the treatment of neurological conditions took part to investigate the effectiveness of physiotherapy for people disabled by stroke. This report provides details of the topics discussed, and reviews the key components related ...
This booklet sets out to examine the concept of empowerment; to look at how it is demonstrated through the changing roles within the Nursing Development Unit (NDUs); and to think about the effect it has on the patient. This series looks at some ways nurses in NDUs have tried to ...
These guidelines suggest how to produce literature for patients in hospitals which is clear, attractive and readable. The guidelines show what information might be included and how some of it might be written and laid out, but scope is left for managers to design and develop literature according to their ...
This is the report of an independent committee, chaired by Lady Margaret McCarthy, which undertook the review at the invitation of the Hospital Caterers' Association and with the support of a grant from the King's Fund. The committee was asked to investigate and report on the perceived needs of patients ...
This is the third paper by the authors on managing the relocation of psychiatric services from large institutions to new patterns of local provision. It offers a summary of their current thinking about the characteristics of an assessment and resettlement model which would be compatible with the wider planning issues ...
Papers from a King's Fund international seminar. The contributors work in the health services in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom and the United States. The book deals with three important aspects of working with people in the context of health service administration. The first is that of trying to ...
Those who have been suffering from mental health problems present particularly difficult problems with re-integration into the community. This project paper examines a scheme for volunteer support for discharged psychiatric patients. With the help of a grant from Oxford R.H.A. a befriending scheme was set up and this report describes ...