The author was asked to deliver the first of a series of annual lectures endowed by Gloucester Health Authority. She chose as the topic of her speech, critical choices, centring on economic and ethical problems in the provision of health care.
In March 1986 the NHS Training Authority commissioned the King's Fund College to conduct a project to investigate the training and development needs of Family Practitioner Committees (FPCs) with particular reference to their management development needs. The aims of the project were twofold: 1) to identify the current and probable ...
Although the development of community care has been national policy in Britain for at least thirty years, it means something quite different in England, Scotland and Wales. This book offers a comparative study both of the central government departments responsible for making and implementing policy for community care, and of ...
In response to the DHSS circular `Patients dying in hospital' (DA(84)17) the Bloomsbury District Management Team asked for an examination of the way that dying patients and their relatives are cared for in Bloomsbury hospitals. This paper arises out of that examination and also out of discussions with nurses, doctors ...
This report presents the results of the authors' review of experience of health care technology assessment in the UK and overseas. It was prepared principally to inform the programme of work on technology assessment being developed at the King's Fund Institute, and was a benchmark exercise, seekingto establish the state ...
This paper is concerned with policy making in the Swedish health service. The paper begins with a description of the organisation of the Swedish health service and a brief summary of the main issues of debate within the service. This is followed by an examination of the role of the ...
The literature on geographical variations in health care is large and growing. A comprehensive review of this literature would be a major task and is beyond the scope of this paper. Instead, the paper summarises some of the key issues which emerge from the literature and identifies the implications for ...
It is customary for the Fund's General Council to invite two speakers to talk about aspects of the Fund's work at its general meeting. On 6 June 1986, the first meeting to be held under the Presidency of HRH The Prince of Wales, the subject was the Fund itself. This ...