It is impossible to give an accurate account of the numbers of domestics from overseas at present employed in British hospitals, but the percentage is certainly high. Hospitals have great difficulties in recruiting locally, and have to look elsewhere, often drawing people directly from overseas, for example from Southern Europe, ...
This is the report of a multi-disciplinary workshop which met for two days in December 1974 to consider employment opportunities for mentally handicapped people.
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 ...
This document discusses the development of planned programmes of training for nurses. A planned programme of training is as a result of reference to a training programme (a frame of reference which allows one to construct a programme of nurse training and education). A planned programme of training is a ...
The Administrative Staff College was established by King Edward's Hospital Fund for London and began its first course in April 1951. This booklet gives a short account of its activities in its first five years of operation.
This document considers the setting up of preliminary training schools (that is, schools of nursing) for student nurses, so that the newly-arrived candidate for training does not work on a ward without hospital training. The document suggests that although groups may be formed and schools established and maintained without any ...
There is a level of public concern about the safety of maternity care in England, highlighted by a number of high-profile cases. The King's Fund set up an independent inquiry to establish how safe maternity services are and to make practical recommendations for change. This report of their findings is ...
Complementary medical practitioners may be a distinct minority in places such as Europe, North America and Australia, but in other countries the number of practitioners and the people who use their services are in the majority. Many practitioners practise without qualification or adequate training, and in response to this the ...