Index Catalog // The King's Fund Digital Archive

Schöpfer:: King Edward's Hospital Fund for London and Cartwright, Ann
Publication date:: 1990
Abstract:: The care given to a random sample of adults who died in 1987 is described retrospectively by relatives and others who had known them. Most praised, or were satisfied with, the care given by general practitioners but both the statistics and the quotations reveal some disconcerting inadequacies in this care, ...

Schöpfer:: King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London) and Henley, Alix
Publication date:: 1987
Abstract:: In response to the DHSS circular `Patients dying in hospital' (DA(84)17) the Bloomsbury District Management Team asked for an examination of the way that dying patients and their relatives are cared for in Bloomsbury hospitals. This paper arises out of that examination and also out of discussions with nurses, doctors ...

Schöpfer:: King's Fund Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London) and Young, Pat
Publication date:: 1985
Abstract:: The aims of this conference were to identify the problems that are particular to those working in terminal care, to find ways of solving them, and to look at the future development of the specialty. Terminal care is distinguished from other medical care by the need to relieve pain that ...

Schöpfer:: Harrison, Anthony, Smith, Alex, King's Fund, and Rosen, Rebecca
Publication date:: 2006
Abstract:: The Cancer Plan has achieved impressive results since it was published in 2000. However, demographic trends, new treatments, increasing survival rates and reforms in the NHS have altered the context in which cancer services operate. Cancer Research UK commissioned this paper to explore how cancer policy should evolve in response ...

Schöpfer:: Burt, Jenni, King's Fund, White, Patrick, King's College London, Shipman, Cathy, and Addington-Hall, Julia
Publication date:: 2005
Abstract:: This research summary presents the findings of a two year research and development project, supported by a King's Fund grant, examining how London's primary care professionals are working in the community to provide palliative care, and how general practitioners, district and community nurses , and PCT and specialist palliative care ...

Schöpfer:: King's Fund, Finn, Hedley, Masterson, Abigail, Waller, Sarah, and Dewar, Steve
Publication date:: 2008
Abstract:: In 2006 a pilot programme was launched in partnership with six NHS trusts, supported by their charities, and two Marie Curie Cancer Care hospices to improve Environments for Care at End of Life. The objective was to see whether the King's Fund run Enhancing the Healing Environment (EHE) could be ...

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