The aim of this study is: to assist hospitals to gain information on the views of their patients, enabling them to take remedial action when desirable and practicable; to compile results centrally so that inter-hospital comparisons can be made.
This booklet does not attempt to provide an exhaustive index of all the best ideas for providing better services for people with learning difficulties. The aim has been to provide a simple narrative describing some of the ideas and practices which have come to the notice of the Hospital Centre ...
This book questions how much the public really knows and cares about the standard of care and about the priorities for expenditure on and within the health and social services; how well informed are people (including health services staff) about the facts and figures of these services and about the ...
This publication contains reports on a series of twelve conferences held at the Hospital Centre between June-December 1970 on the subject of services for the elderly in hospital and community. These reports have been prepared largely at the request of the conference participants who asked for a record of the ...
This is a follow up to the study of student nurses' progress reports published in 1966. Replies showed that there would appear to be an increasing realisation of the importance of progress reports and of the need for further study of the subject. The General Nursing Council for England and ...
This pamphlet lists a variety of jobs that volunteers have done in general, psychiatric, geriatric and children's hospitals or departments. Each of the jobs listed is being performed in at least one hospital.
This purpose of this booklet is to illustrate some of the good ideas and practices that have already been introduced, or are being planned, in the provision of services for elderly people in hospital, community and the home. The information was collected in preparation for an exhibition and conference held ...
The Hospital Centre has recently received a number of requests for information about the preparation and design of progress reports for nurses in training. It was decided to undertake a survey of a selection of progress report forms at present in use. The findings of the survey and some of ...
In recent years considerable advances have taken place in understanding the processes by which people learn, and this has lead to the development of new techniques in learning. The underlying purpose of this survey is: to discover areas of knowledge that cause nurses, especially pupil nurses, particular difficulty; to indicate ...