This study day, organised by the King's Fund, took as its starting point chapter 10 of the Report of the Committee of Enquiry into the Education of Handicapped Children and Young People (the Warnock Report). Main problems were that too few further and higher educational opportunities exist for school leavers ...
This report describes aspects of the work of the Crossroads Care Attendant Schemes and looks particularly at the roles of the European Economic Community, the Department of the Environment and the Crossroads Housing and Supporting Care Project. The D.O.E. assisted in the development of guidelines for local authority architects on ...
This report is a summary of the final conferences on the care of elderly people based on a study of Danish experience in the field. The subjects for discussion were housing, the need for flexibility in care and the identification of good practices. Four syndicate groups discussed specific topics, keeping ...
The aim of this conference was to clarify the role of the personnel nurse and to measure the success of their contribution to the National Health Service. Discussion centred on the role of the personnel department; the functions that should be carried out by departmental staff; the information the personnel ...
The importance of `bonding' between an infant and its parents and how this process can be made or marred by the attitudes of staff and methods of organisation was the focal point of this conference. Discussion covered topics such as how staff can best prepare relatives for their first encounter ...
A service for the elderly mentally ill was started at St Francis' Hospital, Haywards Heath, in 1967. This collection of papers has been published following a grant from the King's Fund. The report gives some account of what has happened since the establishment of the service, the type of services ...
A small number of British nurses, representing the nursing services, nursing education, higher education, the General Nursing Council for England and Wales, and the DHSS, attended this seminar. The seminar aimed to further the work of the Thwaites Report on the training of senior managers in the NHS, published by ...
This seminar described the present organisation of infection control in the UK within the hospital and its links with the community. The role and responsibilities of the infection control nurse, infection control officer and other members of the infection control team were discussed with particular reference to relationships and co-operation. ...
This conference was organised in conjunction with the North West Regional Association of Community Health Councils to discuss the proper role of the accident and emergency (A & E) service. Areas under discussion included the centralisation of A & E services in district general hospitals and the role of the ...
This document reports a conference on chiropody which was arranged in three parts. The first included some of the less well-known aspects of chiropody which the Society of Chiropodists believes should be developed both because they are of benefit to patients and cost-effective in various ways. The second was directed ...