This report summarises a meeting to evaluate the Carers Impact Project in Southwark. It reviewed the changes which have taken place during the course of the project and the impact on carers' lives, identifies what has helped and hindered progress, identifies how the work can continue, and evaluates the Carers ...
This report summarises the material produced by a workshop which was set up in response to feedback from local carers who took part in the first stage of the Carers Impact project. The workshop aimed to review the progress made in implementing the Carers Act and undertaking carer assessments and ...
This report is the fifth in a series of reports prepared to inform the work of the King's Fund London Commission. It emphasises the diversity of London's older people, and highlights the fact that individual requirements for well-coordinated, patient-centred care are incompatible with the complex pattern of service provision in ...
This is the fourth in a series of reports published for the London Commission by the King's Fund. It focuses attention on the question of how transforming health care in London to meet the needs of the next century can be addressed. Reviewing the experience of the last five years, ...
This report is a case study of primary-secondary substitution as an achievable means of reconfiguring health care in London and the UK more generally. It systematically reviews the available local, national and international evidence on the potential for cost-effective primary-secondary substitution of emergency care. The evidence relating to substitution and ...
This report has been commissioned by the King's Fund London Commission as part of a range of work undertaken to revisit the needs of London's population for health care and progress in changing the pattern of health services in the capital. The study looks at capital schemes over £10 million ...
This report is a review of the evaluation of the London Initiative Zone (L.I.Z.) primary care development projects which were established through the former London Implementation Group (LIG) and which were in progress in 1995/6. It particularly focuses on the evaluation of revenue projects aimed at service development in primary ...
This is a report of a survey undertaken on behalf of the King's Fund London Commission. It provides an overview of the current configuration of acute hospital services in London, and consists of a description of the method and data sources used for the survey, a profile of acute services ...
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 ...