The purpose of this report is to review the work of the Centre and to attempt some evaluation of this work as at the end of March 1975. The report starts by recalling the original objectives of the Centre and commenting upon the Centre's role as a forum and meeting-place. ...
This report outlines the terms of reference and membership of a working party, established by The King's Fund, to review arrangements for the management development, training and selection of senior managers in the NHS in England. It includes background information about the history of recruitment and training in the NHS, ...
The aim of this report is to help those planning to survey patients' opinions on hospital care by summarising the experience of others who have already done so. It describes the different types of surveys used, the resulting action achieved and a summary is given of changes in levels of ...
The purpose of this survey was to undertake an exploratory enquiry on the views of both staff and patients about psychiatric departments in general hospitals, mainly in London and southern England. It does not attempt to be a comprehensive attitude survey. Fourteen departments were included in the survey; at the ...
This account of ways and means of improving coordination of services for children and young people with learning difficulties is written especially for members and senior managers of the various authorities - health and welfare, statutory and voluntary - concerned with helping and caring for these people. It is essentially ...
The purposes of this report are: to indicate to those unfamiliar with hospital service statistics the nature and extent of the information available, to suggest methods of approach which may make the application of this information more profitable, and to attempt to rectify some of the misconceptions which have developed, ...
This experimental project took place in Newcastle upon Tyne to look at the health of elderly people. The aims of the project were: to develop experimental after-care and preventive medicine with patients, their friends and families; to help develop relationships that bridge the gap between family and friend and hospital ...
This survey of employee opinion was an innovation in the hospital field and so it is hoped that it will be of interest to a wider audience than just the London Hospital Group as some of the results have implications of more general interest. A small number of results from ...
Many hospital laundries employ workers from overseas and for them the most crucial element in their general ability to work well and to live happily in Britain is their knowledge of the English language. This course aims: to teach the English the learner needs for his immediate job, and to ...