Index Catalog // The Kings Fund Digital Archive

Author:: Development Centre (King's Fund), Hudson, Bob, and Hawley, Keith
Publication date:: 1996
Abstract:: This report draws on the experience of a King's Fund service development initiative in Yorkshire RHA to illustrate the degree to which work to improve community care services for users and carers is hampered by periods of great change. It places the experience in a national policy context, providing insight ...

Author:: Gilbert, Hilary, Development Centre (King's Fund), and Farrell, Christine
Publication date:: 1996
Abstract:: This is the introductory work in the 'Promoting Patient Choice' series. It provides a guide to understanding individual user involvement as well as the wider issue of public involvement in health care decision making. It defines the terms and concepts used and describes the debates and strategies concerned with increasing ...

Author:: Herring, James E., Entwistle, Vikki, Watt, Ian S., and Development Centre (King's Fund)
Publication date:: 1996
Abstract:: This book provides an introduction to the concept of evidence-based health care and considers how consumer health information providers might identify and obtain good quality research-based information about health care effectiveness. It explains why there is so much interest in providing people with information about health care effectiveness and involving ...

Author:: Development Centre (King's Fund) and Towle, Angela
Publication date:: 1995
Abstract:: The author summarises her work in undergraduate medical education at the King's Fund Centre from January 1990 to August 1995. Phase One centred on a national enquiry into the future of clinical teaching designed to raise awareness of the need for change and to build a consensus on the changes ...

Author:: Development Centre (King's Fund) and Jennings, Sharon
Publication date:: 1995
Abstract:: This report attempts to identify key themes within the seminar and highlight questions pertinent to the use of complementary therapies in mental health treatment. It draws selectively from addresses and workshops presented, comments and discussions during the seminar as well as feedback from the evaluation forms. The report addresses three ...

Author:: Development Centre (King's Fund) and Gordon, Pat
Publication date:: 1995
Abstract:: This debate is the second of a series organised by the King's Fund. It took place at a time when the NHS stood accused of withdrawing from long-term care, and public concern was running high about the growth of means-tested services previously provided free under the NHS. People from different ...

Author:: Development Centre (King's Fund)
Publication date:: 1995
Abstract:: There is general agreement amongst the podiatry profession about the need for a more focussed approach to both clinical research and the effective delivery of services. The Chiropody Task Force report 'Feet First' and accompanying EL(94)69, emphasised the need for a more coherent approach to research and development. To begin ...

Author:: London Health Partnership and Development Centre (King's Fund)
Publication date:: 1994
Abstract:: The London Health Partnership is an alliance of charitable foundations, business interests and government, formed in June 1994. Its purpose is to generate a distinctive programme of work over the next few years to help develop urban health care. This is a report of their progress at the end of ...

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