This conference considered that continuing education is the mark of a profession and it looked at the following questions: How does one enthuse British nurses, who generally are not committed to continuing education?; Why the difference in attitude between them and American nurses, who on the whole are more continued ...
This is the first in a series of 17 papers which were prepared during the life of the Royal Commission on the National Health Service. The paper is an analysis of the evidence submitted to the Royal Commission on the NHS 1976-1979, demonstrating some of the problems and difficulties with ...
Three surveys in this book follow up the first study which Professor Brocklehurst undertook for the King's Fund and illustrates ten years of progress by the N.H.S. in the provision of day care for elderly patients. The first provides general data on geriatric day hospitals in the UK: buildings, facilities ...
The first section of this paper examines the need and demand for dental health. It discusses how treatment is provided in the United Kingdom and how the National Health Service is meeting the need. Objectives of dental health services are defined and positive steps towards their attainment suggested. The latter ...
The King's Fund organised this conference because of its interest in and concern about the relationships between "epidemiology" and developments in service planning in the NHS. The number of applications to attend the conference indicated this interest was widely shared. To many, epidemiology and service planning appear to proceed in ...
This study complements a wide variety of material made available to the Royal Commission on manpower planning in the NHS. The first paper, by Alan Williams, is a consideration of some of the manpower problems facing the Commission within a general theoretical context. The second, by the secretariat, describes existing ...