Index Catalog // The Kings Fund Digital Archive

Author:: Warnes, Anthony, Crane, Maureen, and King's Fund
Publication date:: 2000
Abstract:: This book is intended as a guide to effective ways of helping older homeless people. The authors hope to raise awareness of the problems and needs of a generally neglected group of seriously disadvantaged people, to demonstrate that, contrary to widespread assumption, many of them will accept and respond to ...

Author:: King's Fund, Plamping, Diane, Pratt, Julian, and Gordon, Pat
Publication date:: 1999
Abstract:: This book offers a radical way of thinking about organisations as living systems, and practical methods of engaging with complex social and organisational issues, which the authors call 'working whole systems'. The whole system approach they have developed involves working with many types of stakeholder. It always engages local people ...

Author:: Eversley, John, Popay, Jennie, King's Fund, Jee, Maggie, and Everitt, Angela
Publication date:: 1999
Abstract:: This is the final report on the evaluation of an urban primary health care development programme undertaken by the London and Northern Health Partnerships (L&NHP). These partnerships were established in 1994 to generate a distinctive programme of work aiming to improve primary health care in urban areas, particularly in London. ...

Author:: King's Fund, Gordon, Pat, Harries, John, Plamping, Diane, and Fischer, Martin
Publication date:: 1999
Abstract:: This paper tells the story of the first two years (1994-96) of the London Health Partnership's primary care development programme. It describes the background to the project and its guiding principles, and then goes on to describe the diagnostic phase of its work and how systems theories influenced the ongoing ...

Author:: Arora, Shona, Gillam, Steve, Morley, Virginia, Lewis, Richard, King's Fund, Malbon, Gill, and Florin, Dominique
Publication date:: 1999
Abstract:: The aim of this work is to support primary care groups (PCGs) in developing primary care in London. It is directed at all those involved in primary care development , including members of PCGs, trusts and health authorities. Primary care development is taken here to mean the constellation of ideas, ...

Author:: Towell, David and King's Fund
Publication date:: 1998
Abstract:: The author reflects on 20 years at the King's Fund, and collects together seven pieces of work he considers to have continuing relevance.

Author:: Pratt, Julian, Plamping, Diane, Gordon, Pat, and King's Fund
Publication date:: 1998
Abstract:: This paper looks at the government's plan for action zones in education, employment and health which aim to break out of the cycle of deprivation. It examines how the many individuals, groups and organisations who will be involved in the action zones will work together. The authors feel that if ...

Author:: Fischer, Martin, Plamping, Diane, Harries, John, King's Fund, and Gordon, Pat
Publication date:: 1998
Abstract:: This paper reconsiders the meaning and impact of projects, the most common device for spending development monies. They argue that projects can distort the priorities of the host organisation. There are four aspects to this problem: the disruption caused to an organisation by the existence of a project; the project ...

Author:: King's Fund and Blunden, Roger
Publication date:: 1998
Abstract:: This working paper is about engaging with older people around the development of community services. It sets out to do three things: make a case for engaging with older people to find out about their lives and the support they may require as they become ill or frail and to ...

Author:: Boyle, Sean, King's Fund, Morley, Virginia, Towell, David, Newman, Penny, and Mays, Nicholas
Publication date:: 1997
Abstract:: This report is a review of the evaluation of the London Initiative Zone (L.I.Z.) primary care development projects which were established through the former London Implementation Group (LIG) and which were in progress in 1995/6. It particularly focuses on the evaluation of revenue projects aimed at service development in primary ...

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