This publication comprises 10 papers on mental health service provision in a different city. They were presented at the King's Fund's Mental Health in the City conference, held in London on 27-29 October 1997. The cities are as follows: Amsterdam, Baltimore, Bangalore, Copenhagen, Kobe, Madison (Wisconsin), Porto Alegre (Brazil), Sydney, ...
Chalkhill is a large council estate in Brent with serious problems. The author set out to examine the role of health visitors in a multi-disciplinary project to make Chalkhill a better place to live. The report chronicles the benefits and difficulties for health visitors of working in a team of ...
The workshop was held to provide an opportunity for London DHA community units to discuss whether the approach to community nursing as advocated in the Cumberlege report was viable in the inner city. Health authorities were invited to send small teams of people form their community units together with a ...
In January 1980 the Conservative Government appointed a study group under Sir Donald Acheson to produce ambitious proposals for rapid and effective action on primary care in London. This report examines how and why the study group was established, the issues it confronted, the route by which it reached its ...