This report details research undertaken by the landscape architect of the King's Fund into development of new hospital grounds. It includes advice to hospital planners and builders as to how they should make use of the natural resources of their sites. When a hospital is to be built, extreme care ...
This document is a brief sketch of the enquiry which was undertaken to study the design of hospital beds. The enquiry was prompted by the lack of good designs and the wasteful methods of supply prevalent throughout hospitals. The working party which was formed to study the design of hospital ...
This booklet aims to give the hospital caterer a simple nutritional guide to menu planning and to show modifications necessary for the usual therapeutic diets.
This is a report of an investigation into crockery washing with particular reference to the use of detergent dispensers and the centralisation of patients' crockery washing.
The theme for this conference was the pressure for more medical services, including curative care of all kinds and medical care and for more hospital services of all types, including acute, mixed, long-term and psychiatric services. Each paper provides an objective statement of facts as they exist in each country.
The purpose of this report is to attempt to define the work of the hospital chaplain which may be regarded as falling into two groups: ministry to patients; ministry to hospital staff.