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Better patient information, better patient outcomes: the role of health libraries

As Health Information Week gets underway, Deena Mags explores how health libraries are helping patients and the public to be better informed, and some of the challenges around providing meaningful and informative information.
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By Deena Maggs - 5 July 2019
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London calling: health and inequalities in the capital

Kathy Johnson explores the London Programme: a co-ordinated programme of development work and grant giving set up by the Fund in 1979 with the aim of improving health care in the capital.
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By Kathy Johnson - 25 October 2017
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Improving patient experience through design: The King's Fund in the 1960s

Nicholas Willsher looks at the Fund’s work in the late 1950s and early 1960s on improving patient experience and how the Fund developed its approach to design.
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By Nicholas Willsher - 16 August 2017
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Producing quality patient information

Lynsey Hawker looks through The King's Fund's archive to explore how guidance on what constitutes good-quality patient information has changed over the years.
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By Lynsey Hawker - 24 November 2016
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Careless talk costs lives: noise in hospitals

Hong-Anh Nguyen explores the Fund's historical work on improving patient experience, including the issue of noise in hospitals.
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By Hong-Anh Nguyen - 31 May 2016
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Patient involvement and empowerment

Kirsty Morrison look through our digital archive to explore the Fund's work on patient involvement.
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By Kirsty Morrison - 15 September 2015
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From salmon mould to Moroccan tabbouleh: hospitals diets and patient nutrition

For many years, The King's Fund was one of the leading voices on hospital diets and patient nutrition. Here, Ruth Nitkiewicz takes a look through our digital archive, analysing the various recommendations that have been made down the years.
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By Ruth Nitkiewicz - 30 April 2015
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