The Catering Advisory Services agreed to examine the food service arrangements at all the hospitals within the Southport area and to recommend the most suitable system for them collectively or individually. This examination was considered keeping in mind modern catering techniques and possible future developments. An examination was made of ...
This report considers whether or not the Royal Northern Hospital should introduce a central plate system for meal distribution or continue with a tray service of meal delivery. It describes the current methods of food delivery and makes some recommendations.
In 1962, sixty women living alone took part in a seven-day weighed diet survey. When the dietary intake of women in their early and late seventies was compared it was found that there was a decline in dietary intake of as much as 30 per cent in some nutrients between ...
Towards the end of 1969, the Belfast Hospital Management Committee asked the King's Fund to sponsor a review of the operation of the out-patient department since the implementation of the recommendations made in a previous report in 1967. This is a copy of this report which includes a summary of ...
The attitudes that nurses adopt towards patients can be created by a number of different pressures, and they can effect the type of care patients receive. The King's Fund undertook an attitude project and then discussed the possibility of finding out what nurses' attitudes were through a series of discussion ...