The closure or change of use of all or part of a hospital or health facility used to be relatively rare and straight forward. Relatively little has been written about ways in which health service changes have been carried through effectively and to the satisfaction of the different parties concerned. ...
This study day provided an opportunity for social workers to discuss some of the many variations in adoption practices, policies and procedures. Discussion centred on the main themes of the role of the local authority as parent; authorities assuming parental rights with parents agreements; agency records and child history, and ...
This report is of a study started in 1976 which was planned to seek the views of patients about their treatment in hospital. The objectives were: to identify deficiencies in communication between patients and the medical and nursing staff and where possible to remedy these; to seek ways of improving ...
As a result of increasing Union activity and involvement at local level and the growing quantity of legislation relations to industrial relations the NHS along with all other employers would find it necessary to establish clearly the nature and locus of their responsibility.At this conference relevant legislation was reviewed and ...
The Drug Dependency Discussion Group was founded in 1968 to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas for those working in the drug dependency treatment clinics. Its work quickly extended beyond those confines to include social workers in the community, teachers and a variety of other groups. In 1974 ...
This report presents the recommendations of a working party set up in December 1973 to study the subject of orientation for overseas recruits to nurse training.
This conference looked at the work of the community Care Centre, a small community-based GP hospital in inner London. The Centre offers valuable lessons for all health professionals about patient autonomy and participation, collaborative work between professions, GP and community involvement, and imagination in environmental design. The report is not ...
Two two-day pilot workshops for self-advocates with learning difficulties and for advisors were held. Under the title 'Helping your self-advocacy group to grow', the workshops aimed to help people increase their own skills and those of other members of their group. People attending already had a basic knowledge of self-advocacy ...