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Hospitals and primary care : breaking the boundaries

Author:

King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London), Gordon, Pat, and Hughes, Jane

Publication date:

1993

Abstract:

This working paper is based on the assumption that change in the direction of primary health care is desirable and inevitable. It explores the interface between acute hospitals and primary care, and describes developments that improve integration and show how a shift towards primary care might be achieved. It goes ...
Purchasing patient centred care : integrating primary, secondary and community health services

Author:

King's Fund College (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London) and Heginbotham, Chris

Publication date:

1993

Abstract:

The impetus for this publication came from a seminar which was set up on behalf of the NHS Management Executive to investigate the lessons learned for the development of integrated purchasing from the Localities Project. Purchasing patient-centred health (and social) care requires deliberate focus on the patient through: patient centred ...