This report details research undertaken by the landscape architect of the King's Fund into development of new hospital grounds. It includes advice to hospital planners and builders as to how they should make use of the natural resources of their sites. When a hospital is to be built, extreme care ...
This document lists a wide variety of terms which are closely and marginally connected with the planning of hospitals. The source for the definition of each term is given at the end of each entry, and where appropriate the British Standard number is given.
This is a report of an investigation into crockery washing with particular reference to the use of detergent dispensers and the centralisation of patients' crockery washing.
This memorandum has been written as a guide to all those interested in hospital administration who may be involved in deciding their own hospital's nursing establishment requirements. The document does not attempt to produce any quick and easy formula as an answer to the staffing problem of any one hospital. ...
The theme for this conference was the pressure for more medical services, including curative care of all kinds and medical care and for more hospital services of all types, including acute, mixed, long-term and psychiatric services. Each paper provides an objective statement of facts as they exist in each country.
This report looks at the evaluation undertaken of the Ganymede meal service system at Bethnal Green Hospital, in particular the distribution of food to patients and the high catering costs at the hospital.
At the request of the Ministry of Health, the King's Fund set up a working party in 1964 to enquire into the advantages and disadvantages of using a central vacuum cleaning system in hospitals as opposed to individual cleaners. Hospitals which already had a central vacuumation system in operation were ...
This paper was prepared in November 1962 for the Management Committee of the Mid Herts Hospital Group to give guidance on the operational policy for the new Queen Elizabeth II Hospital. Although much of the detail in the policy will only apply to this particular hospital, the general principles would ...
This second conference was presented with very definite and deliberately chosen terms of reference to form the basis of the papers and discussions. These were: 1) in the changing context of hospital administration what are the most important problems of today?; 2) how are these problems being dealt with and ...
The aim of the study reported in this publication was to investigate the procedural and financial problems involved in the use of disposable equipment and materials and thus to help assess to what extent it was possible to use disposables in place of more conventional equipment and materials that are ...