In this report the authors have been concerned with the effects of reorganisation on specialist postgraduate medicine in Greater London. It draws together and comments on the various functions and activities of the postgraduate hospitals. Part 1 reviews the past and present activities of the hospitals and institutes, and Part ...
Setting standards, measuring performance and programming remedial action are prime functions of management. They are not, however, those which are generally applied to feeding patients in hospitals. This account of a study undertaken into means of providing hospital management with such information will, it is hoped, be welcome at the ...
Nowhere is there a written set of standards against which what happens within the ward can be judged by those within and without its confines. This study was undertaken to produce a valid framework that would enable nurses to look systematically at the ward and all its activities. It has ...
The first King's Fund report, 'Commissioning new hospital buildings', was published in 1966, and demand for it was such that it is now out of print. On the initiative of the King's Fund and with the encouragement of the Department of Health and Social Security, a working party was formed ...
It is impossible to give an accurate account of the numbers of domestics from overseas at present employed in British hospitals, but the percentage is certainly high. Hospitals have great difficulties in recruiting locally, and have to look elsewhere, often drawing people directly from overseas, for example from Southern Europe, ...
This book is about taking the drabness and regimentation out of long-term hospital care. It is not so much about attitudes as about how, in hundreds of small, practical ways, behaviour can be changed to make hospitals more human. The book is a joint effort between staff of the King's ...
This book is not a treatise on hospital planning and design, nor is it possible in a book of this size and scope to show a comprehensive and comparative catalogue of health buildings. It is intended to encourage good design and a greater awareness among those who have some part ...
The purpose of the seminars was to inform staff in Great Britain about health services in Europe. This document contains the transcripts of talks given by English-speaking representatives from European Community countries who spoke about the planning and organisation of health services in their respective countries.
This paper is about the service needs of people who have mental health problems and who exhibit persistently anti-social behaviour of a kind likely to result in their appearance before a criminal court. In this document these people have been termed `lost souls'.
The purpose of this report is to review the work of the Centre and to attempt some evaluation of this work as at the end of March 1975. The report starts by recalling the original objectives of the Centre and commenting upon the Centre's role as a forum and meeting-place. ...