Part I of this directory contains homes within the four Metropolitan Hospital Regions and the Wessex Region arranged alphabetically according to the name of the town or the village in which the home is situated. Where there is more than Home in a particular town, they are arranged in alphabetical ...
This pamphlet details the programme for the move of staff and equipment from the Nutford Place premises of the King's Fund Centre, to Albert Street in 1976.
This publication is a catalogue compiled by the Shirley Institute, financed by a grant from King Edward's Hospital Fund for London and assisted by the King's Fund Centre and the Disabled Living Foundation. It gives details of garments which had been found suitable for various types of disability and would ...
This project paper is the result of a series of small informal meetings held at the King's Fund Centre during 1971-73 to consider various aspects of the care of children in hospital and, in particular, to discuss ways of meeting the emotional needs of the child in the ward. The ...
This is the second edition of a survey which aims to devise a questionnaire that general hospitals could use to find the views of patients about their stay in hospital. The questions cover five areas of life in hospital: the ward and its equipment; sanitary accommodation; meals; activities; and care ...
At a conference on patient-nurse dependency the need emerged for a careful consideration of the wide range of approaches found to be in use, and some guidance to nurses, management, and research workers on the next step in this field of activity. This booklet describes the background work leading to ...
The concern of this report is to review some of the problems involved in the future collaboration between the health services and the personal social services after NHS reorganisation in 1974: in particular to highlight certain specific issues which seem to warrant more careful or detailed consideration. The problems of ...
The object of this paper is to serve as a basis for discussion about priorities for further studies into the working of health centres. The result of a short-term enquiry sponsored by the King's Fund, it is concerned with describing the suggestions made of areas needing further study; providing a ...
The study of nurses attitudes to patients (and to each other) has reached the point where individuals are benefitting and the subject is being fairly widely discussed, but where little action and little change is taking place in hospitals. If the study of attitudes is to have an impact, and ...