Index Catalog // The Kings Fund Digital Archive

Author:: Carers Unit (King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development, King Edward's Hospital Fund for London) and McCalman, Joy Ann
Publication date:: 1990
Abstract:: The aims of the research were to identify the work of carers of elderly people from the Afro-Caribbeans, Asians and Vietnamese/Chinese communities; to identify gaps in support services provided by statutory agencies; to assess and produce information for carers in different languages; to identify areas for developing self-help groups or ...

Author:: Equal Opportunities Task Force (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London) and Golding, T.
Publication date:: 1990

Author:: Baxter, Carol, Community Living Development Team (King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development, King Edward's Hospital Fund for London), and Christie, Yvonne
Publication date:: 1990
Abstract:: This document is a report on a workshop held at the King's Fund. Its aim was to highlight the issue of contracts with small groups of black professional workers in the field of mental health. The participants exchanged what was currently known about contracts, looked at some of the issues ...

Author:: Poonia, Kamaljit, Nadirshaw, Zenobia, Baxter, Carol, Ward, Linda, King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London), and Commission for Racial Equality
Publication date:: 1990
Abstract:: This handbook is a response to the concern about the lack of information on good services for people with learning difficulties from black and ethnic minority communities. Previous discussions and actions in this field have tended to be disjointed and ad hoc. This handbook brings together the limited amount of ...

Author:: Equal Opportunities Task Force (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1990
Abstract:: Following approaches by many people concerned about racial inequality in the nursing profession, this paper documents some of the issues which concern the Task Force. It reaches the conclusion that the service which black and ethnic minority nurses have been under-valued and their talent has been squandered. The paper includes ...

Author:: Equal Opportunities Task Force (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1990
Abstract:: In this document the Task Force give advice for the selection of hospital medical staff which promotes equal opportunities or prevents considerable discrimination against black and ethnic minority doctors.

Author:: Equal Opportunities Task Force (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1990
Abstract:: This paper presents the results of a Task Force survey of the health authority members, and the efforts which have been made by the health service to include black and ethnic minority communities in membership. The report includes information about the responsibilities of health authorities, the duties of members, appointment ...

Author:: Constantinides, Pamela, Kalsi, Nirveen, Primary Health Care Group (King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development, King Edward's Hospital Fund for London), and Haringey Health Authority
Publication date:: 1989
Abstract:: This is the story of a King's Fund project and of the attempts of Haringey health authority to improve the services it offers to its multi-racial community. Haringey approached the challenge by appointing an ethnic minorities development officer whose job it was to help develop an equal opportunities policy. The ...

Author:: Cornwell, Jocelyn and King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1989
Abstract:: This report suggests ways in which managers and professionals can make community care more responsive to elderly people. The first part of the report examines ageism and its effects on health care. It describes how elderly people from black and ethnic minority groups are effected by racism. Part Two is ...

Author:: Equal Opportunities Task Force (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1989
Abstract:: This paper explains initially why health authority management should introduce ethnic monitoring systems and deals in later sections with how members and managers should use the data to measure and improve their authority's equal opportunity performance. The bulk of the paper is, however, addressed to personnel and other officers who ...

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