Index Catalog // The Kings Fund Digital Archive

Creador:: King's Fund Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London) and Towell, David
Publication date:: 1984
Abstract:: This is a review of recent British initiatives based upon the principles of "An ordinary life", for both children and adults with learning difficulties. Key issues discussed include establishing commitment to basic principles, planning comprehensive services, acquiring appropriate housing, financing and staffing the residential service, operational policies and management, staff ...

Creador:: King's Fund Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London) and Shearer, Ann
Publication date:: 1984
Abstract:: This paper describes innovatory schemes and progress in bringing children with learning difficulties out of hospital. At the conference, Barnardo's N.W. Division presented information about their professional fostering scheme, followed by Portsmouth and S.E. Hampshire Health Authority's provision of alternative accommodation in the community for mentally handicapped children. A dehospitalisation ...

Creador:: King's Fund Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London), Roberts, Irfon, and National Association of Head Porters
Publication date:: 1984
Abstract:: This booklet was produced to serve as a reminder of the wide range of services given by hospital porters, and especially the part they play in patient care. It discusses the need for training and draws attention to the training now available. Providing a portering service calls for management skills ...

Creador:: Roberts, Frances M. and King's Fund Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1984
Abstract:: A small peer group of senior nurses managers meet at the King's Fund Centre bi-monthly to exchange ideas. In 1983-84 they identified a particular concern relating to recording incidents of accidents and the group focussed on the need for nurses to be encouraged to record all such incidents as a ...

Creador:: London School of Economics and Political Science, King's Fund Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London), Davies, Gillian, Mary's Hospital Medical School (St), Rice, Peter, and Irving, Doreen
Publication date:: 1984
Abstract:: A summary of social characteristics in all district health authorities in England has not been published before. The items presented here are about children, the elderly, housing, migration and economic factors, and include a selection of composite scores. Similar information about electoral wards may be used to identify the most ...

Creador:: King's Fund Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London) and Keeble, Ursula
Publication date:: 1984
Abstract:: Under the terms of the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970, social services departments are required to help with the provision of aids to daily living for disabled persons discharged from hospital, and with adaptations to their homes. The study aims to establish the extent to which social services ...

Creador:: Save the Children, King's Fund Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London), and Cornwell, Jocelyn
Publication date:: 1984
Abstract:: This conference was one of a series of meetings Save the Children held to mark the publication of a report on the health of Traveller mothers and children in East Anglia. The conference was designed to give participants an overview of issues about Travellers' health, their difficulties with the health ...

Creador:: King's Fund Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London) and Chamberlain, Paul
Publication date:: 1984
Abstract:: People with learning difficulties need an appropriate educational input to help them to develop their personal relationship skills and feelings and they need to know where they stand if restrictions are placed on their behaviour because of their living environment. In the same way, staff need guidelines as well. These ...

Creador:: King's Fund Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London) and Allen, Hazel O.
Publication date:: 1984
Abstract:: This report describes the work of a small special interest group established in 1981, to promote the concept of continuing education. Ways of carrying out this promotion included stimulating national interest and awareness through the dissemination of information and ideas via conferences, publications and workshops and examining the role of ...

Creador:: King's Fund Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London) and City and Hackney Community Health Council
Publication date:: 1984
Abstract:: This conference report describes the Hackney Multi Ethnic Women's Health Project which has been running successfully for years. The first paper sets out the principles and politics which gave life to the project and have continued to shape it. The second part of the report takes up four themes in ...

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