This document is the report of the general situation of the nursing home and looks at: the general financial situation; bed occupancy; levels of staffing; catering provision; and cleaning services.Various recommendations are made by which the running of the Home could be improved.
This document lists a wide variety of terms which are closely and marginally connected with the planning of hospitals. The source for the definition of each term is given at the end of each entry, and where appropriate the British Standard number is given.
This is a report of a conference which was held on Tuesday 28 February 1967 and attended by approximately 100 people, the majority of whom were doctors, nurses and pharmacists. The doctor's view about inpatient medication was concerned with problems arising from prescribing systems in hospitals. It was suggested that ...
The first five papers of the conference are reproduced in this document. The first speaker gave a brief history of the development of health centres and suggested that at a time when there is likely to be increasing discussion about health centres, past experience and future changes in the practice ...
This memorandum has been written as a guide to all those interested in hospital administration who may be involved in deciding their own hospital's nursing establishment requirements. The document does not attempt to produce any quick and easy formula as an answer to the staffing problem of any one hospital. ...
At the request of the Ministry of Health, the King's Fund set up a working party in 1964 to enquire into the advantages and disadvantages of using a central vacuum cleaning system in hospitals as opposed to individual cleaners. Hospitals which already had a central vacuumation system in operation were ...
In 1961 King Edward's Hospital Fund undertook a study to look at the application of electronic computers to hospital practice. The committee also met to develop an integrated management information and accounting system suitable for operation by computers. The document is divided into three sections, the first of which looks ...
The aim of the study reported in this publication was to investigate the procedural and financial problems involved in the use of disposable equipment and materials and thus to help assess to what extent it was possible to use disposables in place of more conventional equipment and materials that are ...