This report concentrates on the activities of the Centre from April 1975 to the end of July 1976. The main body of the report is concerned with the work that has taken place; there is also a reference to the work of other organisations who have been housed within the ...
This monograph attempts to bring together, for all members of health care planning teams, but especially for administrators and community physicians, the nature and place of planning in the NHS, and its relationship to research and administration.
Parents and professionals have a common objective, in the pursuit of which each brings differing skills and activities; their joint aim is to aid the development children with learning difficulties, and to enable that child to lead as good a quality of life as possible. the primary task falls to ...
The King's Fund Centre first became interested in the problem of language difficulties with overseas patients when great concern on this matter was expressed by groups of `shop window' staff in discussion meetings at the Centre - the telephonists, receptionists and hall porters who frequently form the patient's first contact ...
In this report the authors have been concerned with the effects of reorganisation on specialist postgraduate medicine in Greater London. It draws together and comments on the various functions and activities of the postgraduate hospitals. Part 1 reviews the past and present activities of the hospitals and institutes, and Part ...
Setting standards, measuring performance and programming remedial action are prime functions of management. They are not, however, those which are generally applied to feeding patients in hospitals. This account of a study undertaken into means of providing hospital management with such information will, it is hoped, be welcome at the ...
Nowhere is there a written set of standards against which what happens within the ward can be judged by those within and without its confines. This study was undertaken to produce a valid framework that would enable nurses to look systematically at the ward and all its activities. It has ...