This document reports the work of the Hospital Personal Aid Service during 1958. The Service undertook visits, on behalf of hospitals, to elderly people awaiting admission to hospital whose medical condition did not warrant immediate admission to an acute ward.
It was suggested that the future of efficient hospital library services could only be assured if fuller knowledge were available of existing services and their cost. This survey of a limited area was undertaken to prepare the way for a conference of all interested bodies in the country. The terms ...