The literature on geographical variations in health care is large and growing. A comprehensive review of this literature would be a major task and is beyond the scope of this paper. Instead, the paper summarises some of the key issues which emerge from the literature and identifies the implications for ...
It is customary for the Fund's General Council to invite two speakers to talk about aspects of the Fund's work at its general meeting. On 6 June 1986, the first meeting to be held under the Presidency of HRH The Prince of Wales, the subject was the Fund itself. This ...
This book provides a detailed discussion of the organisation of postgraduate medical education in the NHS, and the administrative and financial implications if changes are to be made. The material is organised within a 'demand and supply' framework: demand from employers, notably the NHS, and supply provided by various institutions ...
This study helps to fill some of the gaps in our information about the costs of the alternative patterns of residential support and about their effectiveness in providing choices for the users. Three contrasting styles of residential provision are evaluated - a local service based on ordinary housing; a long-stay ...
This booklet is published for S.O.P.H.I.E. (Society of Parents Helping in Education) by the King's Fund. It accompanies a video `Shared Concern' which tackles the difficulties doctors experience when they face the task of informing parents that their baby or young child has a disability. S.O.P.H.I.E. believes this video and ...
The author describes how managers in the NHS can develop their role in child accident prevention. She outlines some relatively simple and inexpensive steps that can be taken immediately. The practical guidelines in this book will assist doctors, nurses and managers who have already identified child accident prevention as a ...