The conference discussed the first report of the Maternity Services Advisory Committee 'Maternity Care in Action' with the purpose of considering how health authorities and the professions could deal with the guidelines contained in the report. Topics covered included suggestions on how to implement the guidelines, a discussion of services ...
The presentation of this annual review follows closely the general lines of the previous two years, and the first four sections describe in detail the plans associated with the main interest areas at the Centre. There is also some discussion about the changing role of the Centre, with much of ...
This publication contains proposals formulated by members of a workshop held in June 1983 about the development of a district policy for the introduction of information technology with particular emphasis on the implementation of computerised departmental information systems.
This pack of papers has been built upon the plenary and group presentations made at a conference held in March 1983 entitled 'The Development of Comprehensive District Psychiatric Services' together with papers from the September Workshop on 'Planning Local Psychiatric Services.' The aim has been not to produce a standard ...
In the current financial climate and with an inheritance of large hospitals situated mainly outside London, the development of local services presents a major challenge to health and local authorities. This paper has been prepared in five sections: (1) National policy developments in learning difficulties in the 1980s; (2) Information ...
TASH is the Association for the Severely Handicapped in the U.S.A. The aim of their 8th annual conference was to think about how everyone, including those with the most severe handicaps, can be fully involved in life in the community. Three main themes were dealt with at the conference: the ...
In late 1981, the DHSS published a study entitled 'Community Care' which examined some important issues in the development of community-based forms of care. The purpose of the study day was to discuss the document and to consider the policy implications for some of the issues it raised. Three themes ...
This account of recent developments in community based services for mentally handicapped people in this country derives from a study of available literature, focussing particularly on that published between 1975-1981. The main part of the report describes the kind of schemes and projects that have been developed to meet the ...
The aim of this paper is to encourage all nursing students to think clearly, logically, consistently and coherently about nursing and to become consciously involved in using appropriate and relevant results of nursing research.
This document present the papers of the conference. The first discusses what the nursing process is. The second paper discusses the nursing process as the scientific method based on rational decision making, percolating to the bedside. If done properly, then the learning process was bound to follow for the action ...