Because of the ever increasing difficulty of obtaining and retaining skilled catering staff, particularly in the larger cities and comparatively remote country districts, this report looks at the ways in which better use of the few skilled staff available could be achieved by the introduction of automation and mechanisation of ...
This document originates from a one-day conference and its purpose is to report on studies of issues and options in the field of hospital traffic and supply which were carried out within the context of the Greenwich District Hospital development project which was seen as a laboratory situation in which ...
Criticisms of hospital food arise mainly from the effects of delay between cooking and eating. The Catering Advisory Service of king Edward's Fund has been particularly interested in studying ways and means of shortening this interval. This study on peripheral finishing kitchens is one of the possible solutions. It has ...
Part one of this report looks at ways in which hospitals could reduce outpatient waiting times by shortening the interval between the time when patients arrive and the time when they see the doctor. Part two deals in detail with the registration of outpatients.
This draft memorandum summarises information collected on various methods employed by hospitals in London to prevent unnecessary waiting by outpatients. Its object is to assist all hospitals to ascertain whether their own waiting time is capable of reduction, and if so, how to reduce it.