This paper aims to present two main types of information. Firstly, it aims to identify the various factors - demographic, economic and ideological - which have come together to create an unprecedented crisis for those involved in the provision of health and social services to the elderly population. Secondly, it ...
This booklet was produced to serve as a reminder of the wide range of services given by hospital porters, and especially the part they play in patient care. It discusses the need for training and draws attention to the training now available. Providing a portering service calls for management skills ...
A small peer group of senior nurses managers meet at the King's Fund Centre bi-monthly to exchange ideas. In 1983-84 they identified a particular concern relating to recording incidents of accidents and the group focussed on the need for nurses to be encouraged to record all such incidents as a ...
A summary of social characteristics in all district health authorities in England has not been published before. The items presented here are about children, the elderly, housing, migration and economic factors, and include a selection of composite scores. Similar information about electoral wards may be used to identify the most ...
Between 1977 and 1981 the author visited over 100 places providing short-term care for children who are mentally handicapped and interviewed families whose children were receiving short-term care. This book describes the development of short-term residential care, who makes use of it, parents' reactions to and opinions of the services, ...
Under the terms of the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970, social services departments are required to help with the provision of aids to daily living for disabled persons discharged from hospital, and with adaptations to their homes. The study aims to establish the extent to which social services ...
Small area statistics from the 1981 Census are an important and in some cases the only source of demographic information about particular neighbourhoods. The statistics are available from the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys, and some health regions and districts have bought them. The figures are very detailed, and ...
This evidence refers to the NHS Management Inquiry chaired by Roy Griffiths. Robert Maxwell is Secretary of the King's Fund (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London) and Tom Evans is Director of the King's Fund College. This evidence is submitted by them jointly. They are grateful for the advice of ...
This conference was one of a series of meetings Save the Children held to mark the publication of a report on the health of Traveller mothers and children in East Anglia. The conference was designed to give participants an overview of issues about Travellers' health, their difficulties with the health ...