Index Catalog // The Kings Fund Digital Archive

Author:: Young, Pat and King's Fund Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1980
Abstract:: The many disciplines concerned in antenatal care are anxious that the services available should reach all mothers and young children, where the reduction of perinatal mortality begins. Several aspects of antenatal care were discussed at the conference, with the overall view that all staff needed to be more sensitive to ...

Author:: King's Fund Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London), Disabled Living Foundation, and Woodford-Williams, Eluned
Publication date:: 1980
Abstract:: This workshop was organised jointly by the King's Fund Centre and the Disabled Living Foundation for clothing managers, linen services managers and staff with daily practical responsibility for patients' clothing in long-stay hospitals. Discussion centred around personal choice of clothing; the role of the supplies officer in buying personal clothing; ...

Author:: King's Fund Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London) and Williams, Alan
Publication date:: 1980
Abstract:: The Royal Commission on the NHS made an early decision to consider the objectives of the NHS, what they should be and how far the NHS does and may succeed in reaching them. The first paper is a personal statement by one of the members of the Commission. The second ...

Author:: Stocking, Barbara and King's Fund Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1980
Abstract:: This information sheet provides basic information on evaluation and includes a consideration of quantitative versus qualitative data, the Hawthorne effect, reducing bias and ethical issues

Author:: Sayle, Diane and King's Fund Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1980
Abstract:: This conference brought together different professionals involved in caring for sick children. The conference was opened by the chairman of the Children's Committee who described this committee's advisory role to the Secretary of State on development and co-ordination of health and personal social services for children. Other speakers covered the ...

Author:: King's Fund Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London) and Richards, Kay
Publication date:: 1980
Abstract:: Increasing expectations of social service departments and the need for social work to establish itself as a new and independent profession has led to friction within the NHS. Although the NHS is not the largest customer for social service departments, many patients and clients are the same people. Services have ...

Author:: Rector, A. L., Metcalfe, D. H. H., Hallam, L., Clayden, A. D., and King's Fund Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1980
Abstract:: This gazetteer is compiled from a national survey of innovative projects in medical records and medical information systems. Projects are indexed regionally and by key topics. The sections covered are: hospital clinical records; hospital specialty systems; high dependency medicine; hospital information systems; interface; primary health care; automatic patient interviewing; computer ...

Author:: Wells, C. J., King's Fund Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London), Richards, Kay, and McFarlane, Jean
Publication date:: 1980
Abstract:: The paper begins with a background study on hospitals in the National Health Service by the Secretariat of the Royal Commission on the NHS. Hospital types and numbers are investigated including district general hospitals, community hospitals, teaching and specialist hospitals, followed by a discussion of specific aspects of the hospital ...

Author:: King's Fund Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London) and Klein, Rudolf
Publication date:: 1980
Abstract:: This paper presents an analysis of the factors underlying the conflict over the pay beds issue which erupted in 1974-76; a conflict which some consider to have been one of the precipitating reasons for the appointment of the Royal Commission. The first section of the paper sets out the basic ...

Author:: Henley, Alix, King's Fund Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London), and Taylor, Colette
Publication date:: 1980
Abstract:: The publication in 1979 of Asian Patients in Hospital and at Home gave rise to considerable correspondence, and Ms Henley and her colleague, Colette Taylor, have continued to work full time in this area. Other studies in this field have been noted and in many instances provided valuable help. The ...

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