This is the second edition of a survey which aims to devise a questionnaire that general hospitals could use to find the views of patients about their stay in hospital. The questions cover five areas of life in hospital: the ward and its equipment; sanitary accommodation; meals; activities; and care ...
At a conference on patient-nurse dependency the need emerged for a careful consideration of the wide range of approaches found to be in use, and some guidance to nurses, management, and research workers on the next step in this field of activity. This booklet describes the background work leading to ...
The concern of this report is to review some of the problems involved in the future collaboration between the health services and the personal social services after NHS reorganisation in 1974: in particular to highlight certain specific issues which seem to warrant more careful or detailed consideration. The problems of ...
The object of this paper is to serve as a basis for discussion about priorities for further studies into the working of health centres. The result of a short-term enquiry sponsored by the King's Fund, it is concerned with describing the suggestions made of areas needing further study; providing a ...
The study of nurses attitudes to patients (and to each other) has reached the point where individuals are benefitting and the subject is being fairly widely discussed, but where little action and little change is taking place in hospitals. If the study of attitudes is to have an impact, and ...
In 1969 there was a demand for a study of the services for people with learning difficulties. A previous study was based on two factors fundamental to the work of R. W. Revan in training for management in different disciplines in many countries. One is based on his interpretation of ...
The King's Fund undertook a survey of the problem of administration of admissions of patients to hospitals, and of possible solutions. It concentrated largely on hospitals that were believed to have already established good practice in this field. A questionnaire was distributed to the 60 general hospitals in the United ...
At the invitation of the King's Fund, a group of professionals involved either in giving service to people with learning difficulties, or in providing a general library service to the public, held a joint residential seminar from 7th - 9th November 1972. The intention was to explore whether a need ...
This publication consists of a check list for ensuring that telephonists, receptionists and hall or gate porters are able to give a service which maintains the good reputation of a hospital.