This paper proposes an alliance of charitable foundations, together with Government, to make a distinctive contribution to the way in which health services for Londoners are being shaped. It explains how an investment fund could form the basis of a high profile three year development programme; how it could be ...
This report is based on public discussion of the six specialty reviews for London that were set up by the Secretary of State for Health earlier in 1993. In July 1993 the King's Fund arranged six meetings to encourage public debate about the outcomes of the independent reviews of specialty ...
This document is the review of services to adults with mental ill health and people with learning difficulties commissioned from the King's Fund College by Hillingdon Health Agency.
The imbalance in London between primary health care and hospital services has long been recognised. Attempts are now being made to address this issue by strengthening community-based services. This paper quantifies the nature of the challenge facing primary health care in the capital relative to the rest of the country. ...
The changes in the NHS mean that clinicians will have to accept the need for explicit rationing rather than shirking the issue with reference to clinical decision making. The current system of implicit rationing will be replaced by one which bases resource allocation on explicit criteria. However there are problems ...
This study examines the changes in nursing care of elderly patients that have taken place since the early 1980s in the former geriatric unit which is now the Tameside nursing development unit. This NDU was one of the first to be established in Britain. In 1990 the Department of Health ...
This report makes proposals for the statutory registration and regulation of chiropractic to tackle the anomaly that anyone can claim to be a chiropractor in the United Kingdom, whether or not they have undergone professional training. The terms of reference for the report were: `Having regard to the growing public ...