Medical technology, defined broadly to include drugs, procedures and equipment used singly or in combination, has been of enormous benefit in improving the quality of health care. It has, however, raised many issues about how society can afford to pay for these often expensive developments and about associated ethical problems ...
This report is a summary of the final conferences on the care of elderly people based on a study of Danish experience in the field. The subjects for discussion were housing, the need for flexibility in care and the identification of good practices. Four syndicate groups discussed specific topics, keeping ...
In June 1978, a small multi-disciplinary group consisting of two doctors, a nurse and a social worker spent a week in Denmark studying the Danish approach to care of the elderly. The conference was held to examine the Danish experience of long-term care for the elderly. Discussion focussed on what ...
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 second conference was presented with very definite and deliberately chosen terms of reference to form the basis of the papers and discussions. These were: 1) in the changing context of hospital administration what are the most important problems of today?; 2) how are these problems being dealt with and ...
This conference was convened to consider and discuss the hospital services, their organisation and scope with special reference to methods of administration. From each country was presented a paper written by the representative of that country dealing in fairly general terms with the principal features of its acute hospital service.
The chief purpose of the visit to Stockholm was to study the functions of the Swedish Central Board of Hospital Planning and the Purchasing Centre of the Swedish County councils, and also to see some of the more recently built hospitals in the country. The chief purpose of the visit ...