This book provides a detailed discussion of the organisation of postgraduate medical education in the NHS, and the administrative and financial implications if changes are to be made. The material is organised within a 'demand and supply' framework: demand from employers, notably the NHS, and supply provided by various institutions ...
This study helps to fill some of the gaps in our information about the costs of the alternative patterns of residential support and about their effectiveness in providing choices for the users. Three contrasting styles of residential provision are evaluated - a local service based on ordinary housing; a long-stay ...
This booklet is published for S.O.P.H.I.E. (Society of Parents Helping in Education) by the King's Fund. It accompanies a video `Shared Concern' which tackles the difficulties doctors experience when they face the task of informing parents that their baby or young child has a disability. S.O.P.H.I.E. believes this video and ...
The author describes how managers in the NHS can develop their role in child accident prevention. She outlines some relatively simple and inexpensive steps that can be taken immediately. The practical guidelines in this book will assist doctors, nurses and managers who have already identified child accident prevention as a ...
In 1983, the Government published the NHS Management Inquiry, led by Sir Roy Griffiths and colloquially known as the 'Griffiths Report'. The remit of the Inquiry Committee was to give advice on the effective use and management of manpower and related resources.
This report discusses a study of the implications ...
The aim of this project was to devise a profile which defines some aspects of agreed good practice. It is a tool of management devised by physiotherapy managers within the NHS for their own use. It is a yardstick for the managers to evaluate their own performance. It is a ...