This conference was organised by the London Strategic Policy Unit and held on 8 April 1987. Workers from health services, local authorities and voluntary bodies met to exchange ideas and compare experience of providing services for A.I.D.S. patients. A paper was presented by the director of supportive housing from the ...
This book puts forward a number of practical steps to be taken by members of health authorities and district management teams, identifies what could be done independently by each unit manager and argues that achieving excellence in unit management should become a major objective for the NHS. Chapters include discussions ...
In the current financial climate and with an inheritance of large hospitals situated mainly outside London, the development of local services presents a major challenge to health and local authorities. This paper has been prepared in five sections: (1) National policy developments in learning difficulties in the 1980s; (2) Information ...
This is the first in a series of 17 papers which were prepared during the life of the Royal Commission on the National Health Service. The paper is an analysis of the evidence submitted to the Royal Commission on the NHS 1976-1979, demonstrating some of the problems and difficulties with ...
The decision making process in area health authorities is often slow. This is because of the absence of formal management arrangements, the complexity of the consultative machinery and consensus decision making. The case for speedy decision making in the NHS is discussed, expectations and reality are compared and possible remedies ...
Resources can be allocated to health care in a variety of ways. Ten major approaches are described in this document. All of these fall within a number of ethical and economic constraints, and yet health authorities differ in the extent to which they place emphasis on important factors. No perfect ...