The development of multidisciplinary working in the administrative and clinical settings received much comment in the evidence at the Royal Commission. The first paper here is a summary of the issues involved. The second, by Professor Ivor Batchelor, a member of the Commission and Professor of Psychiatry, details experience of ...
In evidence to the Royal Commission, a frequent complaint was that the reorganised structure with its principle of consensus management had led to massive delays in decision-making. Previous studies have examined the process of decision-making through interviews with a sample of NHS staff. The paper reproduced here explores the feasibility ...
In June 1979, the King's Fund arranged a two-day seminar for nurse managers to consider the Thwaites Report "The Education and Training of Senior Managers in the National Health Service." Following the seminar, a group of senior nurse managers and educators with a responsibility for management training met regularly at ...
The purpose of the conference was to discuss the report of the King's Fund Working Party on The Organisation of Hospital Clinical Work (KF Project paper no. 22). Discussion centred on the main recommendation that medical work should be performed by fully-trained doctors. The implications were: a reduction in the ...
The new Maidstone District Hospital is being built on the Oakwood Site which lies about three miles to the west of Maidstone. Phase 1, which is due for completion in April 1983 will provide a 300 bed hospital. Possible later phases could enlarge the hospital to one of 700 - ...
This package evolved from the writers' forum for nurses at the King's Fund Centre in 1978-79. The workshops were designed to present a systematic, logical development of an article or a book for publication. Projects used during the workshop and topics for homework papers were carefully selected with the librarian. ...
These three workshops held in the Autumn of 1979 aimed to bring together all those involved in teaching staff who work with mentally handicapped people in residential settings, whether in the health service, local authority services or in voluntary organisations. The main purpose was to enable these staff to share ...
This pamphlet gives an account of a meeting whose aim was an exchange of information between those with experience of care attendant schemes and those with experience of the needs of those with learning difficulties and their families.
This study day aimed to help parents of mentally handicapped children to look ahead to the position of their children as they reached adulthood and to become better informed about their rights and about the services available to them. Five workshops were held dealing with different aspects: employment and further ...
In 1979, the King's Fund College and the Institute of Health Service Administrators agreed to collaborate in making arrangements for this Workshop to explore the role, needs and training requirements of those involved in administration at operational level. Strengthening administration at this level has since been stressed by both the ...