Index Catalog // The Kings Fund Digital Archive

Publication date:: 2004
Abstract:: This paper aims to explore the opportunities available to create stronger and more consistent partnerships between health and education, both in terms of the challenges facing schools and the issues surrounding local strategies that link the two sectors. In doing so, it also seeks to identify some of the ways ...

Author:: Barrington, Liz, Park, Graham, and King's Fund
Publication date:: 2001
Abstract:: Under One Roof was an interagency project aiming to provide better integrated services to homeless single people in two London boroughs. Over its three year course the project has been able to give us a clear sense of the way forward for rough sleepers' services, from GP surgeries and benefits ...

Author:: Park, Graham, King's Fund, O'Neill, Emer, Warner, David, Stern, Rick, and Barrington, Liz
Publication date:: 2000
Abstract:: Under One Roof is a partnership of over 30 statutory and voluntary organisations addressing the needs of single homeless people in Lambeth and Southwark. It was awarded a King's Fund grant in 1997 with the intention of offering a new one-stop service for single homeless people and improving relationships between ...

Author:: King's Fund, Plamping, Diane, Pratt, Julian, and Gordon, Pat
Publication date:: 1999
Abstract:: This book offers a radical way of thinking about organisations as living systems, and practical methods of engaging with complex social and organisational issues, which the authors call 'working whole systems'. The whole system approach they have developed involves working with many types of stakeholder. It always engages local people ...

Author:: The King's Fund and Poxton, Richard
Publication date:: 1999
Abstract:: Primary care groups (PCGs) offer new opportunities for partnerships between health and social care. There is now widespread support for collaboration in order to achieve better integrated care for people with both short-term and continuing care needs. But there is also recognition that this is a complex task. As they ...

Author:: King's Fund, Gordon, Pat, Harries, John, Plamping, Diane, and Fischer, Martin
Publication date:: 1999
Abstract:: This paper tells the story of the first two years (1994-96) of the London Health Partnership's primary care development programme. It describes the background to the project and its guiding principles, and then goes on to describe the diagnostic phase of its work and how systems theories influenced the ongoing ...

Author:: King's Fund
Publication date:: 1999
Abstract:: In this collection of stories, six managers and practitioners talk about their experiences of working with their counterparts in health and social services in development initiatives that were supported by the King's Fund in the period 1993-98. All of the accounts provide insights into the way people in primary health ...

Author:: Pratt, Julian, Plamping, Diane, King's Fund, and Gordon, Pat
Publication date:: 1998
Abstract:: This paper offers a way of thinking about the purpose of partnership; partnership behaviours which fit different purposes; and partnership behaviours which can lead to sustainable change and are not dependent on injections of external resources. The authors have created a typology which focuses on the purpose of partnership, in ...

Author:: Pratt, Julian, Plamping, Diane, Gordon, Pat, and King's Fund
Publication date:: 1998
Abstract:: This paper looks at the government's plan for action zones in education, employment and health which aim to break out of the cycle of deprivation. It examines how the many individuals, groups and organisations who will be involved in the action zones will work together. The authors feel that if ...

Author:: Policy Institute (King's Fund) and New, Bill
Publication date:: 1998
Abstract:: This Review is based on the financial year 1996 to 1997. The first part examines the main events of the year in five key policy areas: creating the new NHS ; community care ; public health strategy; serving the consumer; and clinical knowledge. The second part of the work contains ...

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