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 report contains the findings of a survey of ex-national trainees who are not currently working in the NHS. A surprisingly large number of trainees left the Service before reaching senior positions. Not only did this represent a waste of the money and manpower which had gone into their training ...
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 ...
Between 1980 and the end of the century it is estimated there will be a 30 per cent increase in people suffering from dementia, but no equivalent budget growth to maintain current per capita levels of service provision. This project explores the limits of community or domiciliary care for dementia-sufferers, ...
The Advice and Legal Representation Project, set up in 1982, was the first legal and advice service for people with mental health problems to be based within a psychiatric hospital. The Project offers a free and independent service to hospital-based psychiatric patients. As it was a unique venture, the Project ...
A collection of five papers given at a conference held at the King's Fund Centre to celebrate the first ten years' publication of Journal for Advanced Nursing. The papers discuss the role of scholarship within the nursing profession in the following spheres: nursing education; nursing management; nursing practice. Other papers ...
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 ...