This report was commissioned from the King's Fund by the chairman of the twelve District Health Authorities. It was felt that there was a lack of a factual basis against which to assess the London-wide implications of the plans of the four Thames Regional Health Authorities. This report, which is ...
This book addresses the task of opening hospital services, and is intended as a practical guidebook for commissioning services and buildings. The context of commissioning is also considered: the effect of a new building on district services as a whole and the associated problems of closures and of the change ...
This monograph attempts to bring together, for all members of health care planning teams, but especially for administrators and community physicians, the nature and place of planning in the NHS, and its relationship to research and administration.
The first King's Fund report, 'Commissioning new hospital buildings', was published in 1966, and demand for it was such that it is now out of print. On the initiative of the King's Fund and with the encouragement of the Department of Health and Social Security, a working party was formed ...
The objectives of the seminars were to focus on : the current state of hospital planning knowledge; priorities for investigation and development; methods for resolving problems and taking decisions; the type and form of planning information needed; methods of collaboration and co-ordination in planning and research.
This report describes a visit made by staff of the Charing Cross Hospital to a number of recently built hospitals in Europe in May 1947. The visit was financed by a grant from the King's Fund. The purpose of the visit was to study methods of hospital design and planning. ...