The purpose of this study visit was to note developments in the design and planning of new general hospitals and their equipment, and to assess to what extent these might be incorporated in the detailed planning and equipping of the new Hillingdon Hospital, on which construction is due to begin ...
In 1957/58, the King's Fund conducted an enquiry into the problem of noise control in hospitals, and the results of this enquiry were published in a report in November 1958. In 1960 it was felt that some useful information might be obtained by inviting the fifteen hospitals of the initial ...
This manual suggests subjects for enquiry and observation when hospital visits are being undertaken to gain first hand knowledge of the hospital and its work. The areas of the hospital covered are : inpatients; casualty patients; outpatients; medical records department; elderly people; operating theatres; x-ray and pathological departments; physiotherapy, occupational ...
This objectives of this study tour were: to look at the training for hospital administration and business management which is taking place at universities in the USA and Canada; to look into the structure and working of the accreditation scheme and to enquire as to any other research projects related ...
It was suggested that the future of efficient hospital library services could only be assured if fuller knowledge were available of existing services and their cost. This survey of a limited area was undertaken to prepare the way for a conference of all interested bodies in the country. The terms ...
The idea of finding out which particular noises in hospitals were most worrying to patients was considered by the King's Fund in 1956 and it was decided that the hospital visitors should make special enquiries during the course of their visits to London hospitals. The resulting comments, which were made ...
In the first half-century of its work, the King's Fund was concerned with the support, benefit and extension of the voluntary hospitals of London, and therefore had little or no contact with mental and mental deficiency hospitals. When the National Health Service Act was implemented in 1948, the need for ...
The object of this book is to make the task of providing special diets easier by explanations, in simple terms of what these diets set out to do and of the ways and means of providing them. The publication is intended for ward sisters and all concerned with catering in ...