This book describes in detail the routine administrative tasks that have to be done in hospital after a patient dies and suggests systems which will ensure that the tasks are carried out efficiently. It lays down clear standards for bereavement officers and hospital staff to enable them to provide the ...
This report, by a Brunel team led by Professor Maurice Kogan, was commissioned by the King's Fund at the request of the Department of Health and financed by the Department. It describes the Management Advisory Service in the Oxford and South Western regions, and Performance Review in Wessex, in the ...
This conference took place within the context of three related developments. Firstly, there was the wide-ranging debate about standard setting and the measurement of quality in public services. Secondly, there were the more specific concerns about standards of care in residential accommodation for the elderly, and thirdly, there was the ...
Setting standards, measuring performance and programming remedial action are prime functions of management. They are not, however, those which are generally applied to feeding patients in hospitals. This account of a study undertaken into means of providing hospital management with such information will, it is hoped, be welcome at the ...
This is a report from the Fund's Committee on Hospital Diet, who carried on the work of the original sub-committee who had produced the original memorandum on hospital diet. It is clear from the information gained by the Committee that, in many hospitals, those responsible for feeding the patients and ...