The purpose of this survey was to undertake an exploratory enquiry on the views of both staff and patients about psychiatric departments in general hospitals, mainly in London and southern England. It does not attempt to be a comprehensive attitude survey. Fourteen departments were included in the survey; at the ...
This account of ways and means of improving coordination of services for children and young people with learning difficulties is written especially for members and senior managers of the various authorities - health and welfare, statutory and voluntary - concerned with helping and caring for these people. It is essentially ...
The purposes of this report are: to indicate to those unfamiliar with hospital service statistics the nature and extent of the information available, to suggest methods of approach which may make the application of this information more profitable, and to attempt to rectify some of the misconceptions which have developed, ...
This experimental project took place in Newcastle upon Tyne to look at the health of elderly people. The aims of the project were: to develop experimental after-care and preventive medicine with patients, their friends and families; to help develop relationships that bridge the gap between family and friend and hospital ...
This survey of employee opinion was an innovation in the hospital field and so it is hoped that it will be of interest to a wider audience than just the London Hospital Group as some of the results have implications of more general interest. A small number of results from ...
As a result of enquiries to discover what particular noises in hospital were most worrying for patients, three surveys were undertaken in 1957/8, 1960 and 1973. This document compares the results of the three surveys. The general findings of this survey indicate that noise is probably a greater cause of ...
This checklist is the result of a study carried out during the management course which formed part of the National Training Scheme in Hospital Administration at the King's Fund College. The aim of the study was to discover the extent to which good industrial relations practice, as set out in ...
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 ...