Clinical nurse managers can improve services to patients and clients if they move away from 'coping management' and take a more strategic approach. This new publication, based on the work of the King's Fund Nursing Development Units (NDUs), highlights the experiences of nurses, users, doctors and managers from eight NDUs ...
This publication aims to provide a quick guide to improving disability services for senior managers in health and social services who may have overall responsibility for services for adults with physical or sensory impairments yet not have a detailed involvement at an operational level. The guide is written primarily for ...
This document builds on work carried out by a group of blind and partially sighted people who were invited to identify the issues which they considered to be most important in shaping their experiences of community care. These issues include access to information, assessment for entitlement to services, inflexibility and ...
This is a summary of the first workshop in the King's Fund Purchasing Innovations series. The workshop heard from three main contributors on experience to date in their authorities: Durham; Wiltshire and Bath; and Birmingham.
This publication provides guidance for managers in regional and purchasing authorities and in provider units on how to improve NHS services provided to people from black populations. It should also be a basis on which community organisations and users' groups can evaluate race equality initiatives in local service provision. Managers ...
The mental health services within Mid Glamorgan are in a period of considerable change and renewal. The joint county plan for Mid Glamorgan sets out strategic planning objectives to achieve these changes, reflecting the views of service users, statutory agencies and voluntary organisations. Contained within the plan is the commitment ...
This series looks at some of the ways in which Nursing Development Units (NDUs) have tried to make their nursing more beneficial for patients. The nurses assess to what extent their initiatives really do contribute to patient well-being and what has helped them bring about the changes. Each book will ...
In response to the DHSS circular `Patients dying in hospital' (DA(84)17) the Bloomsbury District Management Team asked for an examination of the way that dying patients and their relatives are cared for in Bloomsbury hospitals. This paper arises out of that examination and also out of discussions with nurses, doctors ...
This is a report from the Fund's Committee on Hospital Diet, who carried on the work of the original sub-committee who had produced the original memorandum on hospital diet. It is clear from the information gained by the Committee that, in many hospitals, those responsible for feeding the patients and ...