The development of multidisciplinary working in the administrative and clinical settings received much comment in the evidence at the Royal Commission. The first paper here is a summary of the issues involved. The second, by Professor Ivor Batchelor, a member of the Commission and Professor of Psychiatry, details experience of ...
Hospital and community health services in nearly every large town in Britain are now caring for Asian patients from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and East Africa. Since the British health services have developed to fit the needs of British patients, many health workers find it difficult to understand and to cater ...
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 ...
The attitude a nurse has towards a patient is one of the most important factors influencing the standard of care patients receive. But a nurse's attitudes to patients are influenced by the attitudes of senior and junior staff. Attitudes between staff and attitudes of staff to patients are, in reality, ...
This guide is for nurses and their colleagues who wish to explore the subject of nurse's attitudes to their patients. It is addressed in particular to nurses with some measure of responsibility for staff or student management who would like to start a discussion group around this subject.
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 ...
This document is a sequel to the `King's Fund Survey of Industrial Therapy in Psychiatric Hospitals'. It supplements the previous report by describing some of the characteristics of patients attending the industrial units. This information was obtained from a census of those at work in the units during one week ...
This report is the first result of a study concerned with the organisation and effectiveness of industrial therapy in psychiatric hospitals. It reflects the significant changes in the traditional views first, of the psychiatric patient and his relation to the community, and second, of the hospital itself as a social ...
This booklet aims to give the hospital caterer a simple nutritional guide to menu planning and to show modifications necessary for the usual therapeutic diets.
The purpose of this report is to attempt to define the work of the hospital chaplain which may be regarded as falling into two groups: ministry to patients; ministry to hospital staff.