This report looks at the benefits of introducing a washing machine into a hospital kitchen. Pots and pans were cleaner with a lower bacteria count, so the benefits derived were considered well worth the expense involved.
The management of the Royal Masonic Hospital requested the King's Fund to advise on the renewal of equipment for their kitchen. The Fund agreed to advise on: the staff establishment; buying; layout of kitchen and dining room; equipment, stating approximate life and usefulness; and systems which may show financial savings. ...
This is a report proposing how a frozen meals service could be provided at one particular hospital site. The report gives basic data about the hospital, followed by suggested organisation of the catering department, standard of feeding, equipment, staff hierarchy and staffing requirements, depot kitchens, floor finishing kitchens, staff restaurants ...
This book is about two themes. The first is the improvement of the co-ordination of services to people with learning difficulties. The second is a description of how the first theme was pursued, by methods of study and discussion characterised, as far as possible, by the direct, active and personal ...
This report attempts to correlate therapeutic principles of the treatment of alcoholism with the planning and design of new facilities. Two existing treatment facilities are looked at in depth, Warlingham Park Hospital, Surrey and Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Scotland.
The present study was designed to assess the nutritional status of the housebound and to compare their dietary intakes with those of more active old people. For this comparison the results of two surveys were available: elderly people on the list of a large group practice in the London borough ...
The main study was carried out in 18 smaller hospitals in West Cornwall without pharmacists. The objectives were: introduction of an improved design of prescription sheets for acute and long-stay hospitals; production of a procedural booklet on the prescribing, administration and distribution of drugs for medical, nursing and pharmaceutical staff; ...
This book has been produced to convey the idea that people with learning difficulties are entitled to dignified, homelike surroundings which will give them fuller enjoyment and will also help them to learn how to live. Most of the ideas are not original, but they stem from a general awakening ...
Both the National Staff Committee and the National Nursing Staff Committee have drawn attention to the importance of the techniques of personnel selection and interviewing, and urge that members and officers of employing authorities should have some knowledge of them. The procedure was laid down in HM(67)2 and HM(67)71 but ...
The authors describe an educational process in which those who work in the psychiatric hospital can learn from their daily experiences on their wards, rather than from teachers expounding their predetermined syllabus. They offer some ideas about how to put autonomous learning into practice, and develop techniques of involvement which ...