This is the third volume of King's College Studies in medical law and ethics. The following topics are covered: A.I.D.S.; contraception and family planning; human rights and the role of the judiciary in medical law; a national commission for medical ethics; defensive medicine and medical malpractice; the ethics of the ...
Despite forty years of the NHS, there are continuing geographical variations in the provision, use and outcome of health services. These variations are manifested in the greater availability of doctors and hospital beds in some areas than others; differences in the use made of these doctor and beds; and variations ...
Rising health care costs now confront policy makers and planners with serious dilemmas of choice. This publication seeks to help formulate principles by which choices can be made. It begins with the premise that health demands will outstrip available resources, but argues that this should not mean that every allocation ...
The development of a network of services and support for people with A.I.D.S. is a challenge for voluntary agencies, for the NHS and for local authorities. There is a consensus that services should, as far as possible, be provided to enable people to be cared for in their own homes. ...
Case management means a number of different ways of managing care, ranging from client advocacy on one hand, to managing services and resources on the other. These, and other issues, are explored in the context of three experimental projects supported by KEHFL. The book reviews a number of dimensions of ...
This document is a learning package aimed at improving the support given to carers by health, social service and voluntary sector agencies. It is based on a pilot project in Croydon. The package describes ways in which more effective collaboration between agencies can be achieved and the impact this can ...
This document describes the planning process by which Newham Health Authority reorganised their child health services from a centralised to a locally administered service. Those responsible for managing the changes have identified the elements of the planning process which they think were significant in enabling the relatively smooth introduction of ...
The project was undertaken with the intention of clarifying and updating the original concept of the community hospital. In defining what community hospitals are, emphasis has been placed on their philosophy and on ensuring that their role is clearly understood.