The first workshop began with the showing of a video "Home from home" from the Bristol Arts Project, which provoked much discussion. Questions raised included `Why do we need reviews?'; `Who benefits?'; `Who does them?' and `When are they done?' The second workshop focussed on these questions in more detail ...
These two workshops had a common theme, that of admissions policies as they affect students with disabilities. Participants in the workshops were especially invited, all having a particular interest in college admissions policies. They were mainly college principals; special advisors for students with disabilities in colleges of further education, polytechnics ...
The report contains three main papers read at the forum. Monica Baly spoke of how the Nightingale Fund influenced the development of nurse education. "Education and the nursing system" was the subject of Rosemary White's paper, offering a new perspective for nursing and its structure. Christopher Maggs, in his paper ...
This workshop arose from a meeting at the DHSS stimulated by Dr. Peter Pritchard in July 1980 between officers of the DHSS who were interested and involved in management and general practice, the King's Fund and Dr. Pritchard. The aim of the workshop was to identify some of those who ...
This review of the King's Fund Centre for 1981 gives information about the chief areas of interest for the Centre: library & information services, long term care, community care, education and training developments and developments in health service planning activities. Information is also given about other organisations working from the ...
The conference aimed to introduce members of London district health authorities to the particular problems of providing services for elderly people within London, following reorganisation of the NHS in April 1982. Quality of provision for old people, both in the community and in hospitals in London contrasted greatly with the ...
This seminar, organised by the Renal Society, began with young dialysis patients talking about their treatment and lifestyles. The report goes on to consider the achievement of independence by the adolescent and the advantages and disadvantages of treating adolescents in a children's unit. Further discussion includes job prospects, educational aspects ...
This report outlines and discusses the King's Fund Ward Sister Training Project being piloted at Guy's Hospital and Whipps Cross Hospital in London. This arose from debate in 1977 about how the Fund could respond to the climate of management awareness and professional concern about the role of the ward ...
The conference was based on the Consumers' Association report "Children in Hospital" which investigated the extent to which hospitals have implemented DHSS recommendations since the Platt Report. Its aim was to develop the concept of change and in particular how staff with responsibility for children in a general hospital face ...
This discussion paper reports a study of the ways in which short-term residential care services for mentally handicapped children are being developed by different agencies and in different parts of England. The idea behind such provision is to provide families with a break from a child who may be causing ...