Written for managers of community health services, this book offers practical help on how to make services user friendly and more responsive to the needs of people who use them. Detailed case studies provide ideas for people 'getting started' as well as describing some common pitfalls. The particular problems associated ...
This publication, building on the Ordinary Life initiative, describes a project undertaken with 2 community services - one for adults and one for children. A P.A.S.S. evaluation of each service yielded detailed information on what life was really like for service users and pinpointed priority areas for further training and ...
This discussion paper sets out to describe the way disability-related advertising is currently undertaken. It highlights major issues which arose during wide ranging discussions with advertising practitioners, charity advertisers and people with disabilities. It ends with a series of suggestions to the advertising industry, charities and the King's Fund regarding ...
The DHSS funded three development workers to work in three differing health authorities to explore the possibilities for improving primary health care in the inner city by developing patch or locality management and planning of services work more closely together; and to establish three local experiments with different approaches to ...
This report presents a number of papers and workshop reports from a conference on family based respite care. The workshop reports discuss: the implications of the Children Bill for children in residential schools and local authority care; respite care and welfare rights; raising the profile of family based respite care; ...
This report suggests ways in which managers and professionals can make community care more responsive to elderly people. The first part of the report examines ageism and its effects on health care. It describes how elderly people from black and ethnic minority groups are effected by racism. Part Two is ...
The workshop was part of the 'Ordinary Life' initiative, which had so far overlooked those people with learning difficulties who are held in secure units. The contributions in this report are picked up four themes - values underlying the 'Ordinary Life' initiative; the concept of security; the concept of dangerousness; ...
The aim in producing the document has been to offer a quick reference tool for practitioners and others to indicate the sorts of people working in the 'quality' areas and their levels of interest. The entries have been supplied by individual practitioners and managers, as well as being drawn from ...
This report from the Primary Health Care Group of the King's Fund Centre explores the context of primary care planning and provides examples of how joint working may be successfully achieved. It outlines why FPCs and DHAs need to work together and argues that primary care planning has been neglected ...
This conference report looks at the provision of services for people with physical disabilities. This included insufficient resources; poorly trained professionals; a lack of coordination within and among state and voluntary care organisations; and the inability to take into account the wishes and experiences of those on the receiving end ...