The purpose of this study was to try and obtain a first impression of the impact of the National Health Service (Reorganisation) Act 1973, which came into force on 1 April 1974 and to ascertain the extent to which the new administrative pattern had been translated into action and to ...
This is the report of a working party set up by the King's Fund College in 1973 to examine training for the remedial professions of occupational therapy, physiotherapy and remedial gymnastics. It highlights several areas which warrant further investigation: student selection; wastage during training; job specifications of therapists in senior ...
This is the record of a workshop on services for mentally handicapped children, organised jointly, in March 1976, by King Edward's Hospital Fund for London, Association of Professions for the Mentally Handicapped and Institute of Mental Subnormality.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The purpose of the seminars was to inform staff in Great Britain about health services in Europe. This document contains the transcripts of talks given by English-speaking representatives from European Community countries who spoke about the planning and organisation of health services in their respective countries.