As a result of enquiries to discover what particular noises in hospital were most worrying for patients, three surveys were undertaken in 1957/8, 1960 and 1973. This document compares the results of the three surveys. The general findings of this survey indicate that noise is probably a greater cause of ...
This project paper presents the results of a series of studies of hospital house journals. It reflects the views of producers and consumers - the editors of house journals and their readers. The project has highlighted the importance of good communications in hospitals, has demonstrated that a house publication can ...
This document reports the discussions of the Group who endorse the validity of an inter-organisational approach to social need and social provision, and who consider practical ways of developing it. As a step towards wider social planning, the group suggested that opportunity be found in the proposed formation of joint ...
This report presents the recommendations of a working party set up in December 1973 to study the subject of orientation for overseas recruits to nurse training.
This document gives instructions as to how patient satisfaction surveys may be undertaken, particularly in the psychiatric hospital setting. The aim of the study is to : assist psychiatric hospitals to gain information on the views of their patients, both favourable and on priorities for change, and thus enable the ...
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 1974. 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 checklist is the result of a study carried out during the management course which formed part of the National Training Scheme in Hospital Administration at the King's Fund College. The aim of the study was to discover the extent to which good industrial relations practice, as set out in ...
The aim of this study are: a) to assist the hospital to gain information on the views of its patients, whether showing satisfaction or making a suggestion for improvements, so that it can take action when desirable and practicable; b) to enable each hospital to compare its results with those ...