This report looks at the evaluation undertaken of the Ganymede meal service system at Bethnal Green Hospital, in particular the distribution of food to patients and the high catering costs at the hospital.
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 ...
At the request of the Ministry of Health, the King's Fund set up a working party in 1964 to enquire into the advantages and disadvantages of using a central vacuum cleaning system in hospitals as opposed to individual cleaners. Hospitals which already had a central vacuumation system in operation were ...
This paper was prepared in November 1962 for the Management Committee of the Mid Herts Hospital Group to give guidance on the operational policy for the new Queen Elizabeth II Hospital. Although much of the detail in the policy will only apply to this particular hospital, the general principles would ...
The precise nutritional needs of old people are unknown. In an attempt to discover levels of intake compatible with health it was decided to carry out a survey of the dietary needs of elderly women living alone, and to make a clinical assessment of the subjects. The survey results are ...
This second conference was presented with very definite and deliberately chosen terms of reference to form the basis of the papers and discussions. These were: 1) in the changing context of hospital administration what are the most important problems of today?; 2) how are these problems being dealt with and ...
In 1961 King Edward's Hospital Fund undertook a study to look at the application of electronic computers to hospital practice. The committee also met to develop an integrated management information and accounting system suitable for operation by computers. The document is divided into three sections, the first of which looks ...