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Author:: Wansbrough, Nancy, King Edward's Hospital Fund for London, and Miles, Agnes
Publication date:: 1969
Abstract:: This document is a sequel to the `King's Fund Survey of Industrial Therapy in Psychiatric Hospitals'. It supplements the previous report by describing some of the characteristics of patients attending the industrial units. This information was obtained from a census of those at work in the units during one week ...

Author:: King Edward's Hospital Fund for London and Stormont, G. J.
Publication date:: 1969
Abstract:: Because of the ever increasing difficulty of obtaining and retaining skilled catering staff, particularly in the larger cities and comparatively remote country districts, this report looks at the ways in which better use of the few skilled staff available could be achieved by the introduction of automation and mechanisation of ...

Author:: King Edward's Hospital Fund for London and Smith, Duncan
Publication date:: 1969
Abstract:: This report looks at different productivity schemes which could be adopted by hospitals to ensure that public expenditure is held in check. Current thinking about training emphasises the fact that little benefit will be gained unless the situation which is desired to change has first been thoroughly analysed. The first ...

Author:: Raphael, Winifred and King Edward's Hospital Fund for London
Publication date:: 1969
Abstract:: This is the first edition of a survey which aims to devise a questionnaire that general hospitals could use to find the views of patients about their stay in hospital. The questions cover five areas of life in hospital: the ward and its equipment; sanitary accommodation; meals; activities; and care ...

Author:: King Edward's Hospital Fund for London, Smith, Duncan, and Miles, A. W.
Publication date:: 1969
Abstract:: This pamphlet examines the history and future of consultation in the hospital service. It shows that, from its beginning, joint consultation faced particular hazards and difficulties to which a large number of committees have succumbed. The fact that some have survived is a sign of latent vitality and it is ...

Author:: Baynes, Ken, Langslow, Brian, King Edward's Hospital Fund for London, and Wade, Courtenay
Publication date:: 1969
Abstract:: This document sets out to do three things: to make a case for the importance of systematically evaluating a carefully chosen selection of new hospital buildings and their equipment; to review critically the evaluations that have already been carried out and to describe useful methods and techniques; and to suggest ...

Author:: International Hospital Federation and King Edward's Hospital Fund for London
Publication date:: 1969
Abstract:: The intention of this conference was to bring together persons from many countries who would be able to state, explain and comment upon the staffing problems of the health services of their national areas; who would be competent to discuss relevant matters of general interest; and whose individual and joint ...

Author:: King Edward's Hospital Fund for London, Ministry of Health (Great Britain), and Centre for Advanced Studies in Environment
Publication date:: 1969
Abstract:: The objectives of the seminars were to focus on : the current state of hospital planning knowledge; priorities for investigation and development; methods for resolving problems and taking decisions; the type and form of planning information needed; methods of collaboration and co-ordination in planning and research.

Author:: King Edward's Hospital Fund for London
Publication date:: 1969
Abstract:: Part I of this directory contains homes within the four Metropolitan Hospital Regions and the Wessex Region arranged alphabetically according to the name of the town or the village in which the home is situated. Where there is more than Home in a particular town, they are arranged in alphabetical ...

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