Index Catalog // The Kings Fund Digital Archive

Schöpfer:: Sketris, Ingrid and King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1988
Abstract:: This handbook is intended as an introduction for managers and professionals to the concept of health service accreditation as it exists in the USA, Australia, Canada and, more briefly, in New Zealand, the Netherlands, Spain and Yugoslavia. The models described are not intended as a blue print for a UK ...

Schöpfer:: King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1988
Abstract:: This is the result of a postal survey which was circulated to all health authorities in 1987. The survey attempted to ask three questions: where are quality circles being used in health care; what are quality circles achieving; could a quality circle be considered to support a network in health ...

Schöpfer:: Shaw, Charles D. and King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1987
Abstract:: This document reviews some elements of health services which have been or may be the subject of standards and some characteristics of the standards themselves.

Schöpfer:: Ham, Chris and King's Fund Institute (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1987
Abstract:: This paper is concerned with policy making in the Swedish health service. The paper begins with a description of the organisation of the Swedish health service and a brief summary of the main issues of debate within the service. This is followed by an examination of the role of the ...

Schöpfer:: King Edward's Hospital Fund for London
Publication date:: 1987
Abstract:: This report was commissioned from the King's Fund by the chairman of the twelve District Health Authorities. It was felt that there was a lack of a factual basis against which to assess the London-wide implications of the plans of the four Thames Regional Health Authorities. This report, which is ...

Schöpfer:: King's Fund Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London), Smith, James, and Hutt, Avis
Publication date:: 1986
Abstract:: This publication consists of the collated information of a survey undertaken in the autumn of 1985 by the Long Term and Community Care Team at the King's Fund Centre. All NHS district general managers in the UK were contacted, to find out about innovations in services for the elderly during ...

Schöpfer:: King Edward's Hospital Fund for London and Hurst, J. W.
Publication date:: 1985
Abstract:: The aim of this study is to explore the effect of alternative methods of financing health services on health service performance - particularly performance with respect to efficiency and equity - in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. All countries face certain dilemmas in financing health services: health ...

Schöpfer:: King Edward's Hospital Fund for London
Publication date:: 1985
Abstract:: This is the first comprehensive guide for health service managers and other senior staff on all aspects of good public relations practice, including dealings with the press, radio, television etc. Public relations is NOT about 'ducking and weaving against the journalists, silencing abrasive pressure groups and covering up embarrassing mistakes.' ...

Schöpfer:: Irving, Doreen, Rice, Peter, and King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1984
Abstract:: Small area statistics from the 1981 Census are an important and in some cases the only source of demographic information about particular neighbourhoods. The statistics are available from the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys, and some health regions and districts have bought them. The figures are very detailed, and ...

Schöpfer:: CASPE Research and King's Fund College (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1982

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