The report aims to cover the subject of incontinence as a whole with the major objective of encouraging sufferers to report it, and their doctors and nurses to become informed in its management. The following areas are discussed and recommendations established: increasing knowledge about incontinence among all professions concerned; to ...
This project paper summarises the results of a survey of youth training in the NHS. The survey looked at the extent of involvement by the NHS in the Work Experience on Employers' Premises (WEEP) Scheme sponsored by the Manpower Services Commission and at the youth training being undertaken more generally. ...
The conference sought to discuss, in the broadest terms, what the definition, function, purpose and relationship of primary health care should be in the future. The conference was held within the context of 'Health for All by the Year 2000' as resolved by the World Health Assembly in 1977. One ...
This book puts forward a number of practical steps to be taken by members of health authorities and district management teams, identifies what could be done independently by each unit manager and argues that achieving excellence in unit management should become a major objective for the NHS. Chapters include discussions ...
The aim of the project is to identify and specify in detail the transcriptional needs of those applying phonetic representation in the analysis of disordered speech. Transcriptional conventions for the phonetic representation of disordered speech have been devised and the report aims to publicise the recommended conventions in appropriate ways ...
An Ordinary Life explores what is meant by training, and discusses the importance of education in values and the formation of beliefs and ideas. The role of parents as part of the care team is examined, as is the need for a clear definition of tasks ranging from policies to ...
Nurse to nurse reporting is a critical part of good nursing practice in both primary and secondary health care settings. These guidelines have been revised from the first edition of this project paper in March 1979.
Papers from a King's Fund international seminar. The contributors work in the health services in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom and the United States. The book deals with three important aspects of working with people in the context of health service administration. The first is that of trying to ...
This report contains the three papers read to the King's Fund History of Nursing conference on 29 July 1983. The papers deal with widely different aspects of history but all demonstrate how politics and policy constrain and influence the structure and function of nursing and midwifery. The titles of the ...
This publication contains a collection of papers produced by therapists in the South West of England as part of a day release continuing education course for therapists at Exeter University. Topics covered include establishing a recording system in a physiotherapy department, a comparison of peak flow rate readings in asthmatic ...