The author states that the current development of a national carers' strategy is a significant milestone after two decades of campaigns and policy development to draw attention to the unpaid help that families and friends provide. Various questions are asked: how far have we travelled in meeting the needs of ...
This is the third in a series of reports published for the London Commission by the King's Fund. It makes the case for an integrated approach to health care in the capital. Currently, although health care involves a set of discrete activities which interact with each other across primary, secondary ...
Organisational solutions to problems arising in community care were discussed at a debate organised by the King's Fund. The debate took place during a period of continuing organisational upheaval associated with the NHS and Community Care reforms. Calls were nevertheless being made for further radical change in the organisation of ...
This report is the result of a seminar bringing together providers, experts in paediatrics, health service managers, purchasers and clinicians. Its purpose was to explore integrated child health care, its benefits and problems, and to put together a submission for the Select Committee to inform their work. The main issues ...
This paper reports on the second and final phase of a joint King's Fund Centre and Nuffield Institute for Health initiative on monitoring community care implementation. It provides an independent account of progress in implementing the community care changes which is based on sampling the experience and perceptions of a ...
This paper reports on the first phase of a joint King's Fund Centre and Nuffield Institute initiative on monitoring community care implementation. It provides the first independent account of progress in implementing the community care changes which is based on sampling a vertical cross section of stakeholders in a range ...
The impetus for this publication came from a seminar which was set up on behalf of the NHS Management Executive to investigate the lessons learned for the development of integrated purchasing from the Localities Project. Purchasing patient-centred health (and social) care requires deliberate focus on the patient through: patient centred ...
Those who have been suffering from mental health problems present particularly difficult problems with re-integration into the community. This project paper examines a scheme for volunteer support for discharged psychiatric patients. With the help of a grant from Oxford R.H.A. a befriending scheme was set up and this report describes ...
The papers in this booklet consist of reports prepared by multidisciplinary advisory groups as part of a project concerned with the integration of health services. This project originated in an application to the King's Fund from the South East Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board for support for a study to see ...
The papers in this booklet consist of reports prepared by multidisciplinary advisory groups as part of a project concerned with the integration of health services. This project originated in an application to the King's Fund from the South East Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board for support for a study to see ...