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Publication date:: 2004
Abstract:: Chronic medical conditions such as asthma, diabetes, heart failure and hypertension affect large numbers of people, including patients, carers, families and friends. As the population in England ages, growing numbers of patients will need help with managing complex, multiple conditions over sustained periods. Apart from the burden of ill-health, treating ...

Publication date:: 2004
Abstract:: Chronic medical conditions such as asthma, diabetes, heart failure and hypertension affect large numbers of people, including patients, carers, families and friends. As the population in England ages, growing numbers of patients will need help with managing complex, multiple conditions over sustained periods. Apart from the burden of ill-health, treating ...

Creatore:: Light, Donald, King's Fund, Mays, Nicholas, and Keen, Justin
Publication date:: 2001
Abstract:: The Labour Government's commitment to making more use of the private sector in health care is proving controversial. Opponents are concerned that it signals the end of the NHS as we know it. Yet public-private relationships are as old as the NHS. This book analyses existing relationships and the regulatory ...

Creatore:: King's Fund
Publication date:: 1999
Abstract:: Creative arts can promote physical, mental and social well-being. The arts can be an effective way of providing people with the confidence to put their views forward and of promoting health messages to those who do not usually listen. This book looks at some very different arts in health care ...

Creatore:: Management College (King's Fund)
Publication date:: 1996
Abstract:: The papers in this book were presented at the 1995 King's Fund international seminar in Canada by representatives of health services in six countries which have undergone major attempts at reform. Assuming that problems will still exist after structural changes have been implemented, they consider what lies ahead for the ...

Creatore:: Turner-Crowson, Judy and King's Fund Institute (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1993
Abstract:: Mental health policy in the United States and Britain has been moving in a similar direction for several decades, from institution to community based services. In both countries there is a pressing need to speed the pace of service development in the community, and also awareness is growing that service ...

Creatore:: Sommerville, Hazel and King's Fund College (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1991

Creatore:: Honigsbaum, Frank and King's Fund College (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1991
Abstract:: This paper traces the origins of the Oregon plan, explains how it works and passes judgment on its worth. The Oregon plan is a controversial health rationing plan for the poor under America's Medicaid system. Over 700 services have been ranked in priority order and the state legislature has said ...

Creatore:: King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London) and World Health Organization
Publication date:: 1991

Creatore:: Tarkenter, R. P. and Northern Regional Health Authority
Publication date:: 1990
Abstract:: This is the questionnaire produced for a Travelling Fellowship report which examines the American hospital estate function. With the new and more commercially-based system of operation for the NHS introduced by the White Paper 'Working for Patients', it seemed appropriate that a close examination should be made of the American ...

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