Index Catalog // The Kings Fund Digital Archive

Créateur:: Murphy, Elaine and King's Fund London Initiative (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1992
Abstract:: This document is a personal view of the current issues of acute care in London based on the author's experience of working in the south east segment of inner London. It is a view informed by impressions gained in working in five different London teaching and postgraduate hospitals and the ...

Créateur:: King's Fund London Initiative (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London) and Meara, Richard
Publication date:: 1992
Abstract:: This purpose of this project is to provide a summary picture of the condition of the estate of London's acute hospitals. It attempts to bring together information on the estate from standard returns and locally obtained evidence. The main issues that the study has tried to address are: how well ...

Créateur:: McIver, Shirley and Consumer Feedback Resource (King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development, King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1992
Abstract:: East Birmingham Hospital's first user forum was organised as part of a project to develop a patient-centred approach in the outpatient department. The assistant unit general manager (patient services and planning) was also interested in piloting the method as a way of obtaining the views of service users, and so ...

Créateur:: Consumer Feedback Resource (Quality Improvement Programme, King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development, King Edward's Hospital Fund for London) and McIver, Shirley
Publication date:: 1992
Abstract:: A recognition that user views of health services are an important part of quality improvement systems continues to grow more widely. This interest is very welcome and hopefully will result in well validated and good quality instruments for obtaining patient's views about their care. One of the problems facing those ...

Créateur:: Nursing Developments Programme (King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development, King Edward's Hospital Fund for London), McGuire, Jenny, and Southport Nursing Development Unit
Publication date:: 1992
Abstract:: In this booklet the author describes how the team introduced a user-friendly tool for assessing the nutrition of elderly patients on their ward and a flexible health promotion programme to meet the special requirements of the patients and their carers. This series looks at some ways nurses in Nursing Development ...

Créateur:: Gorton, Sarah, Greater London Association of Community Health Councils, Martin, Paul, Pratten, Belinda, Wiles, Richard, Green, Jessy, and King's Fund London Initiative (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1992
Abstract:: This report provides a users' perspective on acute health services in London. It begins with an overview of the situation in the capital and proceeds, by considering two vulnerable groups - elderly people and single homeless people, to look in detail at aspects of acute services which are of concern ...

Créateur:: Mares, Penny and King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1992
Abstract:: This is a self-help book designed to help carers feel more in control of their lives and empowered in their dealings with service providers . It is a book of ideas and suggestions based on the experiences of carers, the people they care for, and those who work with and ...

Créateur:: Manthey, Marie and King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1992
Abstract:: Primary nursing is a delivery system designed: to allocate 24-hour responsibility for each patient's care to one individual nurse; and to assign this nurse the actual provision of her patient's physical care whenever possible. The primary nurse leaves information and instructions for her patient's care when she is off duty, ...

Créateur:: King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London) and Lennard-Jones, John E.
Publication date:: 1992
Abstract:: Many people with severe illness are at risk from an unrecognised complication - malnutrition, which can seriously delay the recovery from medical and surgical disorders, and can even be life-threatening. Evidence in this report shows the clinical and financial benefits which can result from better diagnosis and treatment of malnutrition. ...

Créateur:: Laing, William and King's Fund London Initiative (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1992
Abstract:: This report deals with the two major areas of independent health care activity: acute sector and long-term care sector. In the independent health care context, acute sector broadly refers to the range of medical and surgical outpatients and inpatient treatment normally covered by private medical insurance. Long-term care sector refers ...

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