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 ...
These notes have been prepared with the cooperation of Community Service Volunteers (CSVs) in order to provide some guidance to both hospital staff and individual CSVs who are considering projects of this nature.
In 1965 the King's Fund Hospital Centre undertook a survey of ward progress reports for student nurses. An interim report in 1966 was followed by a final report two years later. A working party was set up to study the results of the survey and to explore the possibilities of ...
This document produces the results of an investigation into the operation of industrial units. Three aspects of the operation of such units was looked at in particular: the possibility of obtaining work from government or hospital service sources; methods of payment in the units; pricing of contracts.
With the growing acceptance that nurses should be relieved of non-nursing duties an increasing number of central plate and tray services are being considered by Hospital Management Committees. One such service is the Regethermic system, an innovation from France. The King's Fund was asked to promote an experiment with the ...
This report looks at proven catering service systems, primarily distribution systems based on conventional cooking, although reference is also made to frozen and chilled meals. Three systems are considered to provide a good standard of feeding if correctly operated and well managed: central tray service; central plate service; and peripheral ...
The function of a meals on wheels service is to provide meals sufficiently often and of such nutritive value as to make a significant contribution to total food intake. In this investigation the meals supplied by six meals on wheels kitchens and two luncheon clubs in two North London boroughs ...
This document discusses the development of planned programmes of training for nurses. A planned programme of training is as a result of reference to a training programme (a frame of reference which allows one to construct a programme of nurse training and education). A planned programme of training is a ...
The material in this document is based on a series of papers given at a conference held at the King's Fund Hospital Centre. This book is an attempt to discuss the part of the the research and development project at Greenwich District Hospital which was concerned with some of the ...