Index Catalog // The Kings Fund Digital Archive

Créateur:: Brighton Nursing Development Unit, Nursing Developments Programme (King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development, King Edward's Hospital Fund for London), Hawkey, Brenda, Sheppard, Barbara, and Phelan, Pam
Publication date:: 1992
Abstract:: The theme in this paper is empowerment through teamwork; empowering nurses to carry out research which results in benefits for themselves, their colleagues and their patients. The authors discuss their differing roles in ward-based research and how they collaborated to improve wound management. This series looks at some ways nurses ...

Créateur:: Institute of Health Services Management, Halpern, Stephen, King's Fund London Initiative (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London), and Rowbottom, Joyce
Publication date:: 1992
Abstract:: It is intended that this working paper should: introduce a discussion about some of the organisational options that might be considered if the widely held aspirations for change are to be achieved; indicate some of the current thinking among health service managers about the future direction of the organisation of ...

Créateur:: Community Living Development Team (King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development, King Edward's Hospital Fund for London), Haigh, Ruth, Prince of Wales Advisory Group on Disability, and West Essex Living Options In Practice Team
Publication date:: 1992
Abstract:: The objectives of the Living Options Enquiry were: i) to identify the particular needs of the most highly dependent of disabled people and their carers, both as individuals and as family units; ii) to identify the role users want to take in the development of services. To this end the ...

Créateur:: Owens, Pat, King's Fund Institute (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London), Glennerster, Howard, and Matsaganis, Manos
Publication date:: 1992
Abstract:: Fundholding by general practices is the most innovative and potentially far reaching aspect of the NHS reforms. It also raises the most potential difficulties in implementation. The study falls into two parts. The first is a description of the preparatory period from January 1990, soon after practices were asked if ...

Créateur:: Gafour, Mandy and Information Resources (King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development, King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1992
Abstract:: In December 1991, the Information Resources department at the King's Fund Centre conducted a survey into the European health care interests of King's Fund staff. The aims of the survey were: to determine current interests and work patterns at the King's Fund in relation to Europe; to assess the need ...

Créateur:: Fiedler, Barrie, Twitchin, Diana, Prince of Wales Advisory Group on Disability, and Living Options In Practice (King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development, King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1992
Abstract:: This document bases its discussions on user participation on the experience gained from two and a half years' practical work between Living Options In Practice and eight multi-agency Practice Teams throughout England, which worked to create comprehensive disability service systems. The following elements are discussed in the context of the ...

Créateur:: Evans, Amanda, Nursing Developments Programme (King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development, King Edward's Hospital Fund for London), Camberwell Nursing Development Unit, and Black, Gillian, series editor
Publication date:: 1992
Abstract:: This booklet sets out to examine the concept of empowerment; to look at how it is demonstrated through the changing roles within the Nursing Development Unit (NDUs); and to think about the effect it has on the patient. This series looks at some ways nurses in NDUs have tried to ...

Créateur:: Nursing Developments Programme (King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development, King Edward's Hospital Fund for London), Sheppard, Barbara, Brighton Nursing Development Unit, and Clarke, Marion
Publication date:: 1992
Abstract:: In this booklet the authors describe how they set up a consultative group for patients and the important part the group plays in the rehabilitation process of these elderly people. This series looks at some ways nurses in Nursing Development Units (NDUs) have tried to make their nursing more beneficial ...

Créateur:: Buchan, James and King's Fund Institute (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1992
Abstract:: This report was prompted by the current debate on how best to determine nurses pay in the NHS. Increased emphasis on cost, devolution of managerial responsibility, and the establishment of NHS Trusts are key elements of the NHS reforms, and will have a major impact on the way nurses pay ...

Créateur:: Smaje, Chris, King's Fund London Initiative (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London), and Boyle, Sean
Publication date:: 1992
Abstract:: London occupies a unique position in the provision of acute health care in Britain, in terms of resources consumed, the quantity of care provided and the institutional framework within which service provision takes place. It is a commonly held belief that London has more than its fair share of health ...

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