This briefing provides a review of progress made since the BBC's 2002 'Your NHS' day on the five top priorities voted for by the public as the issues that mattered most in the NHS. These priorities were: free long-term care for older people; better pay for NHS staff; shorter waiting ...
In 1992 the King's Fund Commission published a report `London health care 2010 : changing the future of services in the capital'. This report was unable to describe in any detail the actual delivery of acute medical care in London. This required a more indepth study of care based on ...
A recognition that user views of health services are an important part of quality improvement systems continues to grow more widely. This interest is very welcome and hopefully will result in well validated and good quality instruments for obtaining patient's views about their care. One of the problems facing those ...
This document was first published for use within the Mid-Glamorgan Health Authority and later revised for wider use. It aims to offer guidance to staff working in an accident and emergency department, especially for those staffing the department at night when advice may be less readily accessible. Principles of procedure ...
On March 24, 1923, the Voluntary Hospitals Commission wrote to the King's Fund, referring to a question and answer given in the House of Commons on Wednesday, March 21, on the subject of hospital accommodation for accident cases, and asking that the King's Fund, as the Voluntary Hospitals Committee for ...
This document follows the results of an enquiry to consider and report generally as to the circumstances and conditions under which patients are admitted to casualty and outpatient departments of the London Voluntary Hospitals. It looks especially at what precautions are taken to prevent the admission of people who are ...