The many disciplines concerned in antenatal care are anxious that the services available should reach all mothers and young children, where the reduction of perinatal mortality begins. Several aspects of antenatal care were discussed at the conference, with the overall view that all staff needed to be more sensitive to ...
This workshop was organised jointly by the King's Fund Centre and the Disabled Living Foundation for clothing managers, linen services managers and staff with daily practical responsibility for patients' clothing in long-stay hospitals. Discussion centred around personal choice of clothing; the role of the supplies officer in buying personal clothing; ...
The Royal Commission on the NHS made an early decision to consider the objectives of the NHS, what they should be and how far the NHS does and may succeed in reaching them. The first paper is a personal statement by one of the members of the Commission. The second ...
The songs in this book are designed for the pre-school child in a nursery or playgroup and for children with disabilities. They are intended to assist the child to develop body awareness, to promote simple learning concepts and to overcome perceptual difficulties. They have been used successfully with children who ...
This information sheet provides basic information on evaluation and includes a consideration of quantitative versus qualitative data, the Hawthorne effect, reducing bias and ethical issues
This study arose from an invitation from the King's Fund to study the job of the district administrator in the NHS and to find out what it is really like. 41 senior administrators were interviewed and eight of them observed at work for three days. The findings show wide variation ...
This conference brought together different professionals involved in caring for sick children. The conference was opened by the chairman of the Children's Committee who described this committee's advisory role to the Secretary of State on development and co-ordination of health and personal social services for children. Other speakers covered the ...
Increasing expectations of social service departments and the need for social work to establish itself as a new and independent profession has led to friction within the NHS. Although the NHS is not the largest customer for social service departments, many patients and clients are the same people. Services have ...
This gazetteer is compiled from a national survey of innovative projects in medical records and medical information systems. Projects are indexed regionally and by key topics. The sections covered are: hospital clinical records; hospital specialty systems; high dependency medicine; hospital information systems; interface; primary health care; automatic patient interviewing; computer ...
The paper begins with a background study on hospitals in the National Health Service by the Secretariat of the Royal Commission on the NHS. Hospital types and numbers are investigated including district general hospitals, community hospitals, teaching and specialist hospitals, followed by a discussion of specific aspects of the hospital ...