This paper seeks to analyse how the role of district health authority members developed in the period around and after the 1982 reorganisation of the NHS, and it seeks to identify how the role of members can be strengthened within the existing framework of the NHS. Some ideas and principles ...
The discussion in this paper is based on the findings of a study supported by the King's Fund and conducted under the auspices of the Royal College of Radiologists Working Party on the Effective Use of Diagnostic Radiology in which four strategies were evaluated for implementing guidelines on the use ...
This research project is the result of collaboration by the following organisations:- The King's Fund; London Boroughs Training Committee; London Voluntary Services Council; National Institute of Social Work; Age Concern Greater London. It was financed by the King's Fund. The limits of altruism explores the social and psychological processes which ...
The causes of diarrhoea and the way it is brought about are presented as a consecutive narrative in readable form. Readers without medical knowledge will understand how the condition comes about, recognise the circumstances which give rise to the danger and have some inkling as to the precautions needed to ...
The ways in which hospitals administer patients' money and provide residents with access to their income play a large part in controlling the amount of money a resident can use. Because so little attention has been paid to the financial position of residents in long-stay hospitals it is not know ...
This book aims to provide an account of the range of work carried out by the Family Practitioner Committees, the bodies responsible, in England and Wales, for administering the contracts of general practitioners, dentists, opticians and pharmacists. This is the first comprehensive study of FPCs. It analyses the political environment ...
This is the first in an annual series of volumes on medical law and ethics based on lectures given at the Centre of Medical Law and Ethics, King's College London. The contributors, who came from a wide range of disciplines and represent diverse interests, review important issues in the forefront ...
This book is a contribution to managers' helping each other to learn. Most of the papers in the book are written by health service managers; they are not someone else's account of what those managers do or say they do, but the thoughts of the managers themselves on their own ...
This conference, held on 13 and 14 February 1986 was organised by the GLC with assistance from the King's Fund. This volume is a collection of edited conference speeches, workshop summaries and an information section. Nine key areas are identified:- prevention; medical practice; non-medical NHS workers; complementary alternative medicines; self-help; ...