This report describes environment and health in London using data that are publicly available. The authors have drawn on current international knowledge of the links between environment and health. The key points they make are that inner London is worse off than outer London, with higher unemployment, poorer housing, more ...
This publication is a summary of the full report of the same name. The1990s has seen fundamental changes in the field of primary care. Amidst the recent flood of white papers and ministerial announcements, the King's Fund and the Evening Standard set out to find what Londoners think of the ...
The NHS (Primary Care) Act 1997 made possible local contracts for general practice services and spawned Personal Medical Services (PMS) pilots. These are intended to make primary care services more sensitive to local needs and are therefore particularly useful in London where long-term infrastructural problems have proved intractable. The King's ...
The King's Fund has come together in a consortium with the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health and the Department of Health to establish the 'Working Together in London initiative. This will commit £2 million in the years 1998-2000 to improve the integration of services for people with severe mental health ...
This paper tells the story of the first two years (1994-96) of the London Health Partnership's primary care development programme. It describes the background to the project and its guiding principles, and then goes on to describe the diagnostic phase of its work and how systems theories influenced the ongoing ...
The aim of this work is to support primary care groups (PCGs) in developing primary care in London. It is directed at all those involved in primary care development , including members of PCGs, trusts and health authorities. Primary care development is taken here to mean the constellation of ideas, ...
This paper deals with the distribution of powers and responsibilities for health at the London regional level. It focuses on the structures and processes at the interface of the new Greater London Authority and the developing health partnerships across the capital. Do they provide enough scope for the Mayor and ...
The White Paper "The new NHS" set out the Government's health policy for the next ten years. All general practices in England are to belong to a Primary Care Group (PCG), whose core functions will be to: improve the health of their community and reduce inequalities; commission a range of ...
This volume contains the full tabulations from a survey of 1139 Londoners. The survey was conducted by phone between 19 and 25 April 1999. The data are weighted by age, sex, working status and residents of inner and outer London, to ensure they represent the adult residents of the former ...
General practice has moved dramatically over the last ten years to occupy a centre-stage position in the NHS. From 1999, GPs will be expected to juggle a new range of health care commissioning responsibilities while providing the best possible care to patients. The pressure is also on for GPs and ...