Index Catalog // The Kings Fund Digital Archive

Créateur:: SHARE (King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development, King Edward's Hospital Fund for London), Smaje, Chris, and King's Fund Institute (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1995
Abstract:: This book reviews the literature on the health of minority ethnic populations in Britain. It focusses principally upon current knowledge about the health status of minority ethnic populations in Britain and the use of health care resources made by them, as well as describing the suggested factors which underlie these ...

Créateur:: King's Fund Institute (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London) and Meara, Richard
Publication date:: 1991
Abstract:: This report examines the history of the series of policy initiatives concerning the use of land and buildings in the NHS. It considers the political and managerial intentions which lay behind the 1983 Ceri Davies report, and charts the extent to which the series of proposals which it produced have ...

Créateur:: Centre for Health Economics (University of York), King's Fund Institute (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London), Taylor, David, and Maynard, Alan
Publication date:: 1990
Abstract:: The report examines the likely impact of the indicative drug budgets for family doctors and the government's general practice fund holding initiative in Britain. The authors believe that the new arrangements will sharpen price competition in the UK medicines market, and welcome this. The study also reports on recent European ...

Créateur:: Ham, Chris, Benzeval, Michaela, Robinson, Ray, and King's Fund Institute (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1990
Abstract:: This report reviews the performance of health services in Sweden, Holland, West Germany, Canada and USA. The main aim has been to identify the countries' studies, to draw parallels with the UK, and to establish the lessons, if any, from abroad. Chapter one traces the origins of the Prime Minister's ...

Créateur:: Beardshaw, Virginia and King's Fund Institute (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1990
Abstract:: This paper explores the issue of user representation in health care in the light of the important changes to the organisation and funding of health and social services outlined in the government's reform programme for the NHS and community care. Its first section summarises the health and community care reforms ...

Créateur:: King's Fund Institute (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1989
Abstract:: This edition of the annual publication contains articles on hospice care, job-sharing in the NHS, research ethics committees, day surgery, resource allocation, optical services, cost effectiveness in the NHS, long-term care insurance and hospital care at home.

Créateur:: Hunter, David J., Ham, Chris, and King's Fund Institute (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1988
Abstract:: This briefing paper analyses the management of clinical activity in the NHS. It does so against a background of increasing concern that practices are not always as effective or efficient as is sometimes claimed. The paper considers critically the various policy options that have been put forward for tackling this ...

Créateur:: King's Fund Institute (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1988
Abstract:: Despite forty years of the NHS, there are continuing geographical variations in the provision, use and outcome of health services. These variations are manifested in the greater availability of doctors and hospital beds in some areas than others; differences in the use made of these doctor and beds; and variations ...

Créateur:: King's Fund Institute (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London), Robinson, Ray, and Judge, Ken
Publication date:: 1987
Abstract:: This report examines the present state of the 1987 expenditure plans in the light of the most up to date information available. It discusses the different ways in which public expenditure can be measured, followed by an examination of expenditure on Hospital and Community Health Services during the 1980's. The ...

Créateur:: King's Fund Institute (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1988
Abstract:: This background paper marks the 40th anniversary of the NHS not so much by celebrating past achievements but by addressing some of the issues which are critical to the establishment of an effective agenda for health in the 1990s and beyond. Areas covered are the health debate including financial reform; ...

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