On 5 June 1986 a national conference was held at the King's Fund Centre to discuss the report of the community nursing review, Neighbourhood nursing: a focus for care. This report of the conference proceedings is not a direct narrative. The introduction describes the background to the review, the team's ...
This book is a contribution to managers' helping each other to learn. Most of the papers in the book are written by health service managers; they are not someone else's account of what those managers do or say they do, but the thoughts of the managers themselves on their own ...
This report is based on a workshop held at the King's Fund Centre on 3 July 1986 for managers of London's community health services. The purpose of the workshop was to examine the processes involved in developing objectives for information systems, and then in establishing these systems. Two case studies ...
This paper aims to set out principles of good practice for services for people suffering from dementia. It is intended to be used by all those who are involved in operating, planning or monitoring services for these people. It begins by stating some key principles which should underlie the provision ...
This report reviews the activities of the King's Fund Centre and in particular the library and information services; education and training; long term care and community care; assessment and promotion of quality in care; and the London Programme. It also describes the activities of the other organisations operating within the ...
This conference, held on 13 and 14 February 1986 was organised by the GLC with assistance from the King's Fund. This volume is a collection of edited conference speeches, workshop summaries and an information section. Nine key areas are identified:- prevention; medical practice; non-medical NHS workers; complementary alternative medicines; self-help; ...
The papers that comprise this collection are the proceedings of a workshop organised by the Department of Mental Health, University of Bristol, in May 1986. The workshop aimed to explore issues and strategies for ensuring quality in community services for people with mental handicap. The papers are organised and presented ...
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 ...
This report is the responsibility of a Steering Committee set up by the Royal College of Psychiatrists, the Association of University Teachers of Psychiatry and the Association of Psychiatrists in Training. The book explains how a future psychiatrist embarks on a professional education, and the pathway along which educational training ...