The Long Term Care Team at the King's Fund Centre was concerned that there were difficulties facing some disabled people coming into contact with staff of health authorities. This meeting was set up to bring together multi-disciplinary professional trainers to look at the issue of health authority staff's attitudes to ...
Tom Evans was Director of the King's Fund College from 1981 until his death in 1985. This book is a tribute to him. The papers cover a variety of management issues: an exploration of what strategic management and strategic planning mean; management in the NHS; accountability in the public sector; ...
Healthy public policy argues for a revitalised public health policy, in which the HEA should play a major role. The paper's main contention is that the HEA must help give health promotion greater national prominence by becoming an active advocate for the public health. A central task for the new ...
The tour of North America on which this report is based gave health professionals from the UK an opportunity to study the ideas and practices of countries with different health care systems and an extensive experience of health promotion initiatives. The implications for this country contained in this book are ...
Since 1980 a group of workers organising family-based relief care schemes has met on a regular basis, to look at particular aspects of respite care, and to organise occasional workshops. Although the schemes represented by the group vary widely, features of respite care offered by families have emerged, with workers ...
This document explores the issues involved in providing effective community -based services for people with learning difficulties and challenging behaviours, and provides some suggestions for practical action. The values set out in An Ordinary Life are taken as a starting point and this document discusses how effective community services might ...
On 25 June 1987 a national workshop was held at the King's Fund Centre to chart the progress being made on decentralising community health services. The workshop brought together a substantial body of experience on decentralisation and this report gives a full account of the day's discussions.
This is a fully revised and updated version of the 1987 edition. It describes applications of DRGs at hospital level and examines their use in policy matters at all levels of health services. It is for everyone interested in and responsible for the way resources are used.