In January 2006 the Department of Health published Our health, our care, our say: a new direction for community services. It is the government's seventh White Paper on health since coming to office in 1997 and, after several years of reform aimed at the acute hospital sector, it represents what ...
This is the report of a seminar commissioned by the working party set up by the Department of Health at the end of February 2007 to review the implementation of new arrangements for the regulation of pharmacy in the United Kingdom. The seminar was held at the King's Fund on ...
This publication is a short report on a 1998 visit to Barcelona to investigate the planning and delivery of health care in Catalonia and explore the potential for mutual exchanges of staff.
This study gives an account of workshops held for health care leaders from fifteen countries in Europe on the needs for developing nursing leadership. Whilst the initial focus for development was nursing, the workshops in particular highlighted the need for multidisciplinary as well as uni-disciplinary development. In all the countries ...
Leadership in British nursing has been neglected by nurses and policy makers. The legacy of this neglect is now being felt as nurses struggle to establish and identity a role for themselves in the changing environment of the NHS. Attempts to promote nursing leadership are not without their problems. There ...
This report is based on a search conference which provided a forum for people who share a common concern about a particular issue, that is, community care but who approach that issue from different perspectives. This conference focussed on London and its community services, and how better services could be ...
This seminar was organised jointly by the King's Fund College and the Royal College of Nursing to explore accountability, leadership and power in nursing as it relates to society. Membership of the seminar was spread widely throughout Europe encompassing nurses able to speak with authority about their own health care ...
The International Seminar of Nurses held at the King's Fund College in July 1976 was the third in the series. The question of leadership and the emergence of leaders is of paramount importance to the nursing profession in the three countries represented, Canada, United Kingdom and United States of America. ...