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.
The report of the Community Nursing Review was published in April 1986. Whilst gathering evidence for the report, the Review Team learned of many examples of good practice, which helped shape their thinking about the way community nursing services could develop. Since the report was published there have been many ...
Since the Griffiths reorganisation of the NHS, the management of children's services has been increasingly fragmented and priority has more usually been given to other client groups. The committee believes it is important to identify the particular needs, develop policies, train staff and provide services for children and their families.
This publication comprises of two background papers for the colloquium - (1) Continuing professional education for qualified nurses; and (2) A study in staff preparation - a necessity. The first is on the importance of continuing professional education and a study into how this is done. The second paper is ...
This document defines the standard of care for facilities for elderly patients, and includes a checklist of standards together with guidelines for rating the criteria of service.
This conference was organised by the London Strategic Policy Unit and held on 8 April 1987. Workers from health services, local authorities and voluntary bodies met to exchange ideas and compare experience of providing services for A.I.D.S. patients. A paper was presented by the director of supportive housing from the ...
Increasing interest in the quality of health services and the appointment of officers with designated local responsibilities has generated an urgent demand for ideas on implementing quality assurance, especially from district officers. This collection is one individual's view of relevant literature and activity. It reflects the initial emphasis of the ...
Recent changes in the administrative structure of the NHS seem to have been accompanied by a more marked degree of stress related behaviour. There has been specific concern about nurses and in 1983 the King's Fund awarded a grant to investigate the job-related problems of nurse managers at ward sister ...
Between 1980 and the end of the century it is estimated there will be a 30 per cent increase in people suffering from dementia, but no equivalent budget growth to maintain current per capita levels of service provision. This project explores the limits of community or domiciliary care for dementia-sufferers, ...