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Author:: Jennett, Bryan, King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London), Spiby, Jackie, and Stocking, Barbara
Publication date:: 1991
Abstract:: Consensus conferences are an increasingly accepted means of synthesising available information and of producing a widely agreed view of the value of medical techniques and advances. In the United Kingdom the King's Fund initiated their use, and developed them beyond their original purely professional focus by holding meetings in public, ...

Author:: Viens-Bitker, Cathrine, King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London), Durieux, Pierre, Mays, Nicholas, Kirchberger, Stefan, Stocking, Barbara, and Kamper-Jorgensen, Finn
Publication date:: 1991
Abstract:: Medical technology, defined broadly to include drugs, procedures and equipment used singly or in combination, has been of enormous benefit in improving the quality of health care. It has, however, raised many issues about how society can afford to pay for these often expensive developments and about associated ethical problems ...

Author:: King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1990
Abstract:: The four essays in this volume offer some insights into the following issues: clinical directors, from the view point of a clinician and a manager; USA experience of physician as managers in hospitals and the implementation of such a system; an assessment of the options for the NHS with doctors ...

Author:: King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1989
Abstract:: The aim in producing the document has been to offer a quick reference tool for practitioners and others to indicate the sorts of people working in the 'quality' areas and their levels of interest. The entries have been supplied by individual practitioners and managers, as well as being drawn from ...

Author:: King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1989
Abstract:: This conference proceedings report is an edited compilation of papers given at a conference for World A.I.D.S. Day. Topics covered at the conference included - resources for the 1990s, community care, role of the voluntary sector and an agenda for the 1990s.

Author:: O'Brien, John, King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London), and Sang, Bob
Publication date:: 1984
Abstract:: The concept of advocacy has been slow in gaining acceptance in the UK. An account of the work of Advocacy Alliance is provided here by Bob Sang, its first co-ordinator, who examines all the barriers (both attitudinal and structural) that are placed in the way of any organisation seeking such ...

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