The National Health Service in London faces profound challenges. Currently, services are under intense strain. Access to appropriate care for Londoners is jeopardised, and public confidence has declined. In inner London, in particular, there are high levels of deprivation and growing health inequalities. While some of the country's leading hospitals ...
This publication looks at how older people can benefit when joint commissioning of services takes place. It outlines the state of joint commissioning around the country, then looks in more detail at the five development sites: Oxfordshire, the Victoria area of London, Easington in County Durham, Hillingdon, and Wiltshire. The ...
This report was commissioned by the King's Fund as part of the process of evaluating the impact and effectiveness of their work in the five development sites of the project. The two questions the report attempted to answer were: to what extent the sites had met the service change targets ...
This handbook was commissioned by the London Health partnership for use by groups who wish to address a concern about transport. It describes how to make the most of the transport that is available; suggests how to get a local transport scheme started; and provides background information of interest to ...
This pamphlet describes the whole systems approach taken by the London Health Partnership to achieve their aim of improving the well-being of older people by addressing long-standing problems of providing care and promoting health in cities. This summary was presented to the 1996 British Urban Regeneration Association Conference.
This is the fourth in a series of briefings from the King's Fund's Joint Community Care Commissioning Project, and the last before the Project's final report. It continues the theme of achieving change through joint commissioning and questions whether it really can lead to a significant improvement in the quality ...
This is the third publication in a series based on the work of the King's Fund Nursing Development Units. Using interviews with staff, this book offers examples from five different units of the way in which patients and clients have become actively involved in delivery of care and service developments. ...
This is a summary of a workshop in a continuing series of short events designed to explore the development of collaborative commissioning in the light of evolving local experience. Participation was drawn from the five sites involved in the King's Fund Centre's Joint Commissioning project, eight other health and local ...