This working paper focuses upon opportunities for rehabilitation within a spectrum of support required by people who are ill or disabled. Drawing on consultations held in 1996, it provides insights into common perceptions of shortcomings in the current system of rehabilitation and of potential benefits which would arise from additional ...
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 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 publication sets out guidelines for those commissioning health and social services for people with physical and/or sensory impairments between the ages of 16 and 65. It starts by identifying what are the general aims of commissioning activities directed at this group of people before moving on to address the ...
This paper reports on the second and final phase of a joint King's Fund Centre and Nuffield Institute for Health initiative on monitoring community care implementation. It provides an independent account of progress in implementing the community care changes which is based on sampling the experience and perceptions of a ...
Better Futures was a two year project which focussed on improving the quality of life of people with serious and long-term mental health problems. During the period 1992-94 the King's Fund Centre funded a programme of development work in five localities in England and Wales: Clwyd, Leeds, Salford, Swindon and ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
The first briefing gave an indication of some of the major issues involved in joint commissioning services for older people. It also gave an introduction to the work taking place at the five King's Fund development sites which are: Easington; Hillingdon; Oxfordshire; Westminster; and Wiltshire. This second briefing concentrates on ...