During the past two years, some of the most important and frequently recurring problems raised at discussions in the Hospital Administrative Staff college were related to hospital bed occupancy. In order to provide some material on which to base lectures and discussions for the courses held at the college, a ...
This document looks at the undertaking by the King's Fund and by the Nuffield Trust to do a complete unit costing of a small number of representative London and provincial hospitals. Specific activities included in the investigation were: to study the administrative organisation of the hospitals; to investigate the existing ...
This circular looks at the problem of food waste in hospital catering. Guidelines are given as to how catering standards may be improved just by tackling the problem of waste.
One recommendation from a report on hospital catering was that catering in hospitals should be treated as the function of a separate department, under the charge of a qualified and experienced caterer, with competent staff. The Fund decided to establish the School of Hospital Catering. Initially this would provide refresher ...