Index Catalog // The Kings Fund Digital Archive

Publication date:: 2006
Abstract:: Investment in the NHS has increased significantly under the Blair government. Spending will soon reach the EU average, but when we catch up with our European neighbours, what then? Assuming that pressures to spend more will continue, but that marginal health returns on extra investment are likely to diminish, this ...

Schöpfer:: King's Fund and Office of Health Economics
Publication date:: 2002
Abstract:: Organisations such as the National Institute of Clinical Excellence seek to assess the value for money of new health care technologies. Assessment commonly requires the use of thresholds or benchmark levels of cost effectiveness. Key issues that consequently need to be resolved include: the basis on which thresholds should be ...

Schöpfer:: Torgerson, David, Development Centre (King's Fund), Carter, Jan, and Farrell, Christine
Publication date:: 1997
Abstract:: This book reviews the latest research in the area of podiatric surgery services. It also reports the findings from a study of podiatric surgery services in six English health districts. The two parts of the research complement each other. The first, which contains the results of a comprehensive literature review, ...

Schöpfer:: Carter, Jan and King Edward's Hospital Fund for London
Publication date:: 1995
Abstract:: Nuclear medicine is a medical specialty that uses tiny quantities of radioactivity to produce diagnostic images. It also has a role in therapy for some thyroid diseases and certain tumours. Surveys have shown that nuclear medicine procedures are used significantly less in the United Kingdom than in many other countries ...

Schöpfer:: King's Fund Institute (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1993
Abstract:: This report contains an abbreviated appraisal of the options for future health policy in Guernsey. It is divided into three main sections. The first section makes clear the main objectives that any policy must meet. The second section identifies the key components of alternative reform packages with an assessment of ...

Schöpfer:: Institute of Health Services Management, Management Advisory Service to the NHS, Hoare, John, and King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1992
Abstract:: As yet few people working in the health service are aware of the scale of the tidal wave of new medical technology now breaking over the NHS. While these technologies offer startling improvements in medical information and therapeutic technique, they are also costly. What they accomplish for the patient in ...

Schöpfer:: Marks, Linda and King's Fund Institute (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1991
Abstract:: The boundaries between home and hospital care are constantly shifting. Care in the community for people with long term dependencies, and increasingly sophisticated primary care service and the expansion of outreach care and day surgery have all contributed to a reassessment of the central role of the hospital. This research ...

Schöpfer:: Palmer, Guy, Kaye, David, King Edward's Hospital Fund for London, McClenahan, John, and Mason, Alistair
Publication date:: 1987
Abstract:: Arthur Andersen and Co. Management Consultants has been involved with a number of research projects designed to measure value for money in health and local authority services. This booklet describes the components which they believe make up a successful joint planning exercise. Its purpose is to present some lessons and ...

Schöpfer:: Hospital Caterers' Association, McCarthy, Margaret, and King Edward's Hospital Fund for London
Publication date:: 1986
Abstract:: This is the report of an independent committee, chaired by Lady Margaret McCarthy, which undertook the review at the invitation of the Hospital Caterers' Association and with the support of a grant from the King's Fund. The committee was asked to investigate and report on the perceived needs of patients ...

Schöpfer:: Hills, Ann and King's Fund Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1983
Abstract:: The conference examined voluntary services in community care and looked at particular types of volunteers, from Voluntary Service Coordinators, patient and hospital friends, to self help groups and patients' associations. The report describes recent innovation in voluntary action in community care and discusses the cost effectiveness of voluntary care.

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