This is the third edition of the Organisational Audit manual. Since 1990 several individual sections of the manual have been revised in order to ensure that the standards remain at the forefront of good practice as well as to reflect the significant changes which have taken place in the organisational ...
This Review is based on the financial year 1993 to 1994. The first part describes developments in each of the main policy areas of `The health of the nation', the Patient's Charter and community care implementation. For the first time results of the systematic research into the effects of the ...
This booklet has guidelines which provide advice and suggestions for the primary health care team which is being surveyed by the King's Fund Organisational Audit. It begins with advice on how to set up a steering group, outlining the roles and responsibilities of that group. It is followed by a ...
In May 1993 representatives of ten countries met for two days in Dublin under the auspices of the European Healthcare Management Association to explore similarities, differences and potential ways forward to strengthen management development for those doctors managing clinical resources. Prior to the conference the co-ordinators from each participating country ...
This is a review of the King's Fund College in 1994. It lists the staff who have joined and those who have left; work in progress from January to August 1994; College activity and finance report; subjects for action; and the Development Fund.
This item gives the critiques and papers produced for a conference held at the King's Fund Centre in November 1994. The aim of the conference was to use the OXCHECK and British Family Heart studies as a springboard for the future, to critique them for their unique contribution to the ...
The author describes the health problems of homeless people, concentrating on London, and how services for homeless people could be improved. This could be delivered within the National Health Service in an integrated service. The author also looks at why so few homeless people are registered with a general practitioner; ...
The purpose of this document is to take the debate and practice concerning the situation of Black people who are diagnosed as suffering from mental illness beyond the point of counting heads, and instead to focus more on acknowledging and highlighting positive methods of diagnosing and treating mental health problems ...
This workshop focused on progress being made in developing circles of support and also provided an opportunity for people working in other ways as well to get together and share their experiences of building personal support networks.
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 ...