The King's Fund, NHS Confederation and Royal College of Nursing produced this briefing that provides key facts and figures on London's health needs, and highlights what they believe are the five most pressing health issues for the Mayor to tackle. The five key messages are: make London a healthy place ...
This publication presents a study of how the news media cover health issues. It tests the premise that television news programmes and newspaper stories distort perceptions of risk to health by under reporting serious public health issues that kill many people, such as obesity and smoking, focusing instead on 'scare' ...
This guide is the new, fully revised second edition of 'Practicalities of Producing Patient Information' (PoPPi), which was published by the King's Fund in 2000. Fully updated in line with the latest developments in new media such as CD ROMs and the internet, the guide also shows how to use ...
This new policy paper, which follows up an interim report published in 2002, aims to take a fresh look at the issues facing planners, policy makers and managers responsible for maintaining and developing the health care workforces in London, and to tease out some of the opportunities, as well as ...
This research summary examines a key aspect of NHS staffing: that of the loss of experience from health services as older staff, who are valuable and much needed, leave early in ever-increasing numbers. With a workforce where about 150,000 of the one million employed are aged 50 or over, and ...
This report was commissioned to review the use of the King's Fund buildings and its universal services in terms of benefit to a variety of stakeholders, including staff, in relation to the achievement of the King's Fund corporate strategy and against cost. Universal services were defined as the King's Fund ...
This publication aims to revive the research debate among policy makers and the research community. It evaluates progress towards meeting the needs of the NHS and examines the role of publicly financed health research alongside that played by the educational, commercial and voluntary sectors. Finally, it assesses the significance of ...
'Working Together in London', a three-year, £2 million programme, was set up by the King's Fund, the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health and the Department of Health to support people with severe and long-term mental health problems. New assertive outreach services were established in three of London's most deprived communities ...
In the past few years, rapid and significant changes have taken place in the social, political and policy environment in which health professionals and patients interact. This paper reports on the Patient Involvement Project, a King's Fund study that assessed changing relationships between health professionals and patients/clients in a changing ...
This publication summarises the King's Fund Community Pharmacy Programme. It has three components: extending local contracting to community pharmacy; the developmental needs of community pharmacists in North East London; and the role of pharmacists in demand management. The programme outputs will include a conference, publications, a stakeholder event in North ...