This report concerns the design of a questionnaire for hospitals to assess the views of their own outpatients. The survey was conducted between 1974 and 1976 in nine general hospitals. In addition supplementary surveys in one or more specialties were held in three small hospitals attached to one of the ...
Part one of this report looks at ways in which hospitals could reduce outpatient waiting times by shortening the interval between the time when patients arrive and the time when they see the doctor. Part two deals in detail with the registration of outpatients.
This draft memorandum summarises information collected on various methods employed by hospitals in London to prevent unnecessary waiting by outpatients. Its object is to assist all hospitals to ascertain whether their own waiting time is capable of reduction, and if so, how to reduce it.
The Committee was appointed to enquire into and report upon methods in use in London Voluntary Hospitals regarding the attendance of patients in outpatient and casualty departments, and the effect of those methods upon the suitability of the patients treated and on the length of time during which patients wait ...