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 publication is the second in a series of reports based on the work of the King's Fund Centre Nursing Development Units. It looks at the variety of approaches which have been taken by a number of NDUs around Britain to narrow the gap between research and practice. Six different ...
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 report describes the purpose, development and outcomes of the Primary Nursing Network over a four year period, from 1988 when the idea first emerged to 1992 when the original remit was enlarged to incorporate other aspects of practice development and network became known as the Nursing Developments Network. Information ...
This is the first in a series of publications based on the work of the King's Fund Centre Nursing Development Units. Using interviews with managers, supervisors and staff this book describes the use of supervision in five different units and shows some of the different forms that supervision can take. ...
This report describes the aims and achievements of those who have been involved in the Nursing Development Unit project over three years and outlines some recommendations for the future which have been drawn from their experiences.
This item provides information and advice for members of steering groups responsible for implementing organisational audit. From joining the programme to assessing the surveyors' recommendations, this booklet clarifies the whole process and explains how it's done.
The care given to a random sample of adults who died in 1987 is described retrospectively by relatives and others who had known them. Most praised, or were satisfied with, the care given by general practitioners but both the statistics and the quotations reveal some disconcerting inadequacies in this care, ...
This document is the result of a working group who had a shared commitment and concern for the lives of people living in long-stay psychiatric wards. The group wishes to acknowledge that for some people a psychiatric hospital will continue to be their home and that the service they receive ...
Since the Griffiths reorganisation of the NHS, the management of children's services has been increasingly fragmented and priority has more usually been given to other client groups. The committee believes it is important to identify the particular needs, develop policies, train staff and provide services for children and their families.