Index Catalog // The Kings Fund Digital Archive

Publication date:: 2009
Abstract:: This paper is a response by The King's Fund to the Health Select Committee inquiry into the future of social care.

Créateur:: Molyneux, Peter, King's Fund, and Leather, David
Publication date:: 2005
Abstract:: A report commissioned by the King's Fund in December 2004 to provide support to the Enquiry into Care Services in London. The data helps to provide an understanding of housing issues that impact on people's ability to make choices about their care and their way of life.

Créateur:: McClenahan, John, McNair, Bardy, King's Fund, Jones, Judith, and Mitchell, John
Publication date:: 1998
Abstract:: In the 1960s, the King's Fund caused a major stir when it developed a new specification for hospital beds. Manufacturers implemented the specification as the 'King's Fund bed', which was revolutionary in its time and a major step forward in patient care. Today, more than 30 years later, the bed ...

Créateur:: Jones, Judith, Mitchell, John, McNair, Bardy, and King's Fund
Publication date:: 1998
Abstract:: In the 1960s, the King's Fund caused a major stir when it developed a new specification for hospital beds. Manufacturers implemented the specification as the 'King's Fund bed', which was revolutionary in its time and a major step forward in patient care. Today, more than 30 years later, the bed ...

Créateur:: King's Fund
Publication date:: 1998
Abstract:: There are nearly 40,000 residential and nursing homes in the UK and choosing one of them, often under great speed and stress, can be a daunting experience. It is difficult to know what to look for, how to check that the standards are high, who funds what, and why there ...

Créateur:: Health Quality Service (King's Fund)
Publication date:: 1998
Abstract:: This publication contains the organisational standards for nursing and residential homes produced after three years of development and trialling. It also contains a short account of the development of the standards and the process of using them in both nursing home and residential homes contexts.

Créateur:: Ritchie, Jane, King Edward's Hospital Fund for London, and Richardson, Ann
Publication date:: 1986
Abstract:: This paper is addressed to a wide range of people concerned with the provision of care for people with learning difficulties their families. It is the result of research among parents whose adult sons and daughters with learning difficulties live at home, and explores their perspectives on the eventual move ...

Créateur:: Higgins, Joan and King Edward's Hospital Fund for London
Publication date:: 1985
Abstract:: This conference took place within the context of three related developments. Firstly, there was the wide-ranging debate about standard setting and the measurement of quality in public services. Secondly, there were the more specific concerns about standards of care in residential accommodation for the elderly, and thirdly, there was the ...

Créateur:: King's Fund Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London) and Shearer, Ann
Publication date:: 1984
Abstract:: This paper describes innovatory schemes and progress in bringing children with learning difficulties out of hospital. At the conference, Barnardo's N.W. Division presented information about their professional fostering scheme, followed by Portsmouth and S.E. Hampshire Health Authority's provision of alternative accommodation in the community for mentally handicapped children. A dehospitalisation ...

Créateur:: King's Fund Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1982
Abstract:: The first workshop began with the showing of a video "Home from home" from the Bristol Arts Project, which provoked much discussion. Questions raised included `Why do we need reviews?'; `Who benefits?'; `Who does them?' and `When are they done?' The second workshop focussed on these questions in more detail ...

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