Under the terms of the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970, social services departments are required to help with the provision of aids to daily living for disabled persons discharged from hospital, and with adaptations to their homes. The study aims to establish the extent to which social services ...
Small area statistics from the 1981 Census are an important and in some cases the only source of demographic information about particular neighbourhoods. The statistics are available from the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys, and some health regions and districts have bought them. The figures are very detailed, and ...
This evidence refers to the NHS Management Inquiry chaired by Roy Griffiths. Robert Maxwell is Secretary of the King's Fund (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London) and Tom Evans is Director of the King's Fund College. This evidence is submitted by them jointly. They are grateful for the advice of ...
This conference was one of a series of meetings Save the Children held to mark the publication of a report on the health of Traveller mothers and children in East Anglia. The conference was designed to give participants an overview of issues about Travellers' health, their difficulties with the health ...
People with learning difficulties need an appropriate educational input to help them to develop their personal relationship skills and feelings and they need to know where they stand if restrictions are placed on their behaviour because of their living environment. In the same way, staff need guidelines as well. These ...
This second section of the report on surgical services in Herefordshire has three parts. Part A includes the authors' observations of practices in waiting list management and admissions policy which caused concern. Part B concerns practices in the operating theatres which were observed and which give cause for concern. Wherever ...
This report describes the work of a small special interest group established in 1981, to promote the concept of continuing education. Ways of carrying out this promotion included stimulating national interest and awareness through the dissemination of information and ideas via conferences, publications and workshops and examining the role of ...
This project paper is the product of a working party convened by the King's Fund Centre to examine the provision of day services for people with mental handicaps. The importance of work in society and for people with mental handicaps is discussed and principles of service design described. Problems with ...