This is a summary of a workshop in a continuing series of short events designed to explore the development of collaborative commissioning in the light of evolving local experience. Participation was drawn from the five sites involved in the King's Fund Centre's Joint Commissioning project, eight other health and local ...
This is a summary of a workshop in a continuing series of short events designed to explore the development of collaborative commissioning in the light of evolving local experience. Participation was drawn from the five sites involved in the King's Fund Centre's Joint Commissioning project, eight other health and local ...
The first two briefings looked at major issues involved in joint commissioning services for older people and examined progress at each of the five development sites. This third briefing concentrates upon the achievement of change, particularly making a positive impact on older people's lives through collaborative commissioning. A major theme ...
This publication is intended to offer practical assistance to mental health service managers who want to initiate or develop user involvement. Its aims are: to draw on the experiences of managers, staff and users; to identify problems and offer solutions and ideas based on those experiences; and to identify ways ...
This paper reports on the first phase of a joint King's Fund Centre and Nuffield Institute initiative on monitoring community care implementation. It provides the first independent account of progress in implementing the community care changes which is based on sampling a vertical cross section of stakeholders in a range ...
The information exchange is produced particularly for supporters and advisors of self-advocacy groups and people with responsibility for developing effective ways of working in partnership with users in planning and delivering services. This issue looks at results of a questionnaire carried out to find out how useful the information exchange ...
This Review is based on the financial year 1993 to 1994. The first part describes developments in each of the main policy areas of `The health of the nation', the Patient's Charter and community care implementation. For the first time results of the systematic research into the effects of the ...