This working paper contains some basic information about statutory health centres in the United Kingdom. It is hoped that it will be of immediate use in its present form and, more importantly, that it may provide the first step towards the establishment of a comprehensive directory and information service on ...
This guide is for nurses and their colleagues who wish to explore the subject of nurse's attitudes to their patients. It is addressed in particular to nurses with some measure of responsibility for staff or student management who would like to start a discussion group around this subject.
This is an account of an attempt to improve co-ordination of services received by people with learning difficulties. With the guidance of a working party , the project has been designed and developed by members of a research advisory group. From the initial stages of the project this group shared ...
This conference was held at the King's Fund College of Hospital Management and the main themes were: methods of appraising hospital and health services; costing hospital and health care; manning hospital and health services; integrating components of hospital and health services.
These papers were written in an attempt to help people appointed to the comparatively new post of organiser of voluntary help in the hospital service, and are directed particularly to those with little or no experience of the hospital world. It is also hoped that all staff, particularly nurses and ...
This document considers that the role of volunteers working in psychiatric hospitals is essentially to add a dimension of reality to the lives of the patients and, by so doing, to help them maintain, develop and strengthen their links with the community. A variety of voluntary services that are being ...
This publication considers a variety of ways in which volunteers may be brought in to hospitals to help bring interest and variety to people with learning difficulties. Listed are a variety of services already being given by volunteers.
Volunteers are able to spend time listening to elderly people whether in hospital or in a home, time which professional staff and even relatives are unable to spare. If used effectively on a hospital ward, volunteers can relieve some of the pressure which staff may feel in being unable to ...
The volunteer in a general hospital has two main roles: one to act as patient's friend and helper, and the other to help hospital people retain that precious human touch so vital to good care. within this context the volunteer can undertake a wide range of tasks which complement those ...
This publication is a catalogue accompanying an exhibition of hospital catering equipment and supplies. The aim of the exhibition was to show how the drop in the number of hospital staff taking meals and the rise in the cost of these meals per head could be tackled and overcome.